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                       philosophical  counselors  to             do  not  need  to  implement  a
                       solve  their  problems,  grow             treatment  plan  or  intellectual

                       personally,  create  a  better            and behavioral rules. People need
                       world,  and  achieve  existential         dialogue,  not  diagnosis  (Marinov
                       peace. The client does not come           cited in Frunza, 2022: 101).

                       to  philosophical  counseling  as a          In  his  analysis,  Foucault
                       patient. However, having therapeutic      introduces us to Socrates, who
                       expectations  is  not  wrong  as          tells  the  youth  not  to  despair

                       dialogue  has  a  strong  healing         because they have not come to
                       power in itself (Frunza cited in          learn all the secrets of wisdom,
                       Frunza, 2022: 100).                       but  advises  self-care  and  states:

                         According to Sandu Frunza,              Know yourself (Foucault cited in
                       one  of  the  main  values  of            Frunza, 2022: 103).
                       Western  culture  is  love,  and             Nietzsche’s  solution,  under
                       counseling  should  also  consider        the  pressure  of  relativism,  leads

                       the client’s culture. The importance      the  client  to  the  idea  that
                       of  love  in  personal  growth,           everything is only interpretation

                       understanding existential problems,       and  that  one  can  have  real
                       and solving various metaphysical          access to the reality of his/her
                       crises  faced  by  the  client  is        life  as  it  is  constructed  in  the
                       evident in all human dimensions           interpretation  (Nietzsche  cited

                       (Scruton cited in Frunza, 2022: 111).     in Frunza, 2022: 103).
                         Ang  and  Wayne  Dyne  also
                       believe that solving the problems         Ali  Ṣafāei  Ḥāeri’s  Approach

                       that a person may have in most cases      to Philosophical Counseling
                       has  not  only  a  philosophical
                       component  but  also  relates  to          1. A Truth-Oriented Self-

                       the culture in which he/she lives          Transformation Approach
                       (Dyne cited in Frunza 2022: 101).          Based on Refined Logical
                         According to Marinoff, it is less        Thinking

                       likely to have an anti-psychiatry         In  short,  Ali  Ṣafāei  Ḥāeri’s
                       attitude,   but     philosophical         approach is truth-oriented self-
                       counseling and the philosopher            transformation       based      on
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