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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