"Murphy takes clients outside for brisk strolls through her leafy neighborhood because Kant believed that walking helped thinking and was soothing for the soul."
"Suffering from a midlife crisis? Try a dose of Friedrich Nietzsche, who wrote in his autobiography of creating an inner 25-year-old superhero in middle age."
The story is here. It's easy to make fun of this, of course. Even so all historians of philosophy know that philosophy was once therapeutic in something like the sense described in the Washington Post article.
I think that (let's call it "curative mental health therapy") should be contrasted with the kind of Quietism promoted by Wittgensteinian therapy, which I understand as curing philosophic diseases. But it also seems as if texts by various authors are being used that were never intended to be treated as "curative mental health therapy."
Of course, if it works? Reader comments welcome.
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