Dr. Shlomit C. Schuster
Office
: Center Sophon, Horkania 23, #2 , Jerusalem 93305,
Israel.
Phone : +972-2- 6795090
Email : [email protected]
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Dr. Shlomit C. Schuster Office
: Center Sophon, Horkania 23, #2 , Jerusalem 93305,
Israel. |
Education : BA, MA, PhD, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Research Expertice : philosophy of practice, applied philosophy, applied ethics, history of philosophy, philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion.
Current Research : radical/critical psychology, narrative psychology, philosophical psychoanalysis, the construct of identity, philosophical narrative, Byzantine philosophy and belles lettres.
Professional activities : Philosophical Counselor and Philosophical Psychoanalyst in Private Practice, President of the Israel Society of Philosophical Practice and Counseling, Teacher and Supervisor in Philosophical Counseling and Philosophical Psychoanalysis, Philosophical Counseling for Managers and Groups, Human (and Animal) Rights Activist, Editorial board member of the Journal of Radical Psychology, the International Journal for Philosophical Practice, and Author.
Selected Publications:
Books:
Philosophy Practice: An Alternative to Counseling and Psychotherapy , Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 1999.
Translated into Dutch as: Filosofische Praktijk: Een alternatief voor counseling en psychotherapie, trans. W. de Leeuw, Rotterdam: Lemniscaat, 2001.
Translated into Italian as La pratica filosofica, trans. Francesco Cirri, Milan: Apogeo, 2006.Translated into Chinese as 哲學診治：諮商和心理治療的另類途徑, trans. Chang Shao Chien, Taipei: Wu-Nan Book Inc., 2007.
In Memory of Susan Sontag: Foreword to the Italian and Chinese translation of Philosophy Practice
For reviews of Philosophy Practice: An Alternative to Counseling and Psychotherapy click here
The Philosopher's Autobiography: A
Qualitative Study ,Westport, Conn.: Praeger
Publishers, 2003.
For reviews of The Philosopher's Autobiography: A Qualitative Study click here
Book about: The return to philosophical counseling: A conversation with Dr. Shlomit Schuster.
In Hebrew , by Idit Parienti.
Papers:
Shlomit C. Schuster (1991) "Philosophical Counselling", Journal of Applied Philosophy , vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 219-223. Translated into Hebrew and published as "HaYeoetz Ha Philosophi" in Emda 7. Summer 1999, pp. 60-63.
----- (1992) "Philosophy as if it Matters: The Practice of Philosophical Counseling", Critical Review , vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 587-599.
----- (1995) "The Practice of Sartre's Philosophy in Philosophical Counseling and in Existential Psychotherapy", The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly , vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 99-114.
----- (1995) "Report on Applying Philosophy in Philosophical Counseling", The International Journal of Applied Philosophy, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 51-55.
----- (1996) "Philosophical Counseling and Humanistic Psychotherapy", Journal of Psychology and Judaism , vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 247-259.
----- (1997) "Sartre's 'Words' as a Paradigm for Self-description in Philosophical Counseling," in Perspectives in Philosophical Practice , The Reader of the Second International Congress on Philosophical Practice, Doorwerth: Vereniging Filosofische Praktijk, pp. 20-34.
Partly translated into Italian as "Cosa intendo quando dico 'Philosophical Counseling'"?And translated in Portuguese as "O que quero dizer com 'Filosofia de Aconselhamento'"
----- (1997) "Philosophical Narratives and Philosophical Counseling," Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis. vol. 8.2 , pp. 108-127. ------ (2002) "Philosophical Narrattives and Philosophical Counseling," in Further Existential Challenges to Psychotherapeutic Theory and Practice , pp. 250-267.
----- (1998) "Sartre's Freud and the Future of Sartrean Psychoanalysis," in The Israeli Journal of Psychiatry. vol. 35.1, pp. 20-30.
----- (1998) "On Philosophical Self-diagnosis and Self-help; A Clarification of the Non-clinical Practice of Philosophical Counseling" in The International Journal of Applied philosophy. vol. 12:1, pp. 37-50.
----- (1998) "Revisiting Hope Now with Benny Levy" in Sartre Studies International.vol. 4.1, pp. 63-75.
---- (1998) " Everybody's Philosophical Counselling" in The Philosophers' Web Magazine and in The Philosophers' Magazine vol.1.3, pp. 44-45.
Translated into Italian as Il counseling filosofico di tutti.----- (1999) " Philosophy Practices as
Alternative Ways to Well-being," in Journal
Radical Psychology, Vol. 1, No. 1. Forthcoming (Spring 2008) at the GDAE Social Science Library: Frontier Thinking in Sustainable Development and Human Well-Being on CD-ROM.
----- (2001) " Philosophical Counseling
and Rationality," in Thinking Through Dialogue: Essay on
Philosophy in Practice, Oxted,
Practical Philosophy Press, pp. 58-61. ----- (2001) "Philosophical Autobiography,"
in Encyclopedia of
Life Writing ,London, Fitzroy
Dearborn, 2001, pp 706-707. ----(2002) "In Times of War and Terror: Philosophical Counselling
as an Alternative to treatment of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder"
in Canadian Journal of Community Mental
Health, Special Issue
concerned with international innovation in community mental
health, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 79-90. ----- (2002) " "Hoop en troost in tijden
van oorlog: de filosofisch consulent als crisis hulpverlener?" Filosofie,
Vol. 12, 1, pp. 40-41. (Translation into Dutch of an earlier and much
shorter version of "In Times of War and Terror:
Philosophical Counseling as an Alternative to treatment of Post-traumatic
Stress Disorder") ---- (2003) "Echt
leven is ontmoeten -- Martin Buber" in Zinsneden
Ed. and trans. Marc Van den Bossche, Budel: Uitgeverij
Damon, pp. 87-102. ---- (2004)
"The Autobiography of I
and Thou: A Philosophical Psychoanalysis" in Journal
of the Society for Existential Analysis. Vol.
15, 1, pp. 133-142. An earlier, shorter, version of this paper was translated
into Dutch and published as " Echt
leven is ontmoeten -- Martin Buber" in Zinsneden
Ed. and trans. Marc Van den Bossche. Translated into Italian as La consulenza filosofica e l'Io e Tu, "Phronesis", III (2005), n. 5. Also published as "Philosophical Counseling and the I and Thou" in Entre Historia y Orientacion Filosofica. Vol II. Ediciones X-XI, Sevilla, ed. Jose Barrientos Rostrojo, 2006.
---- (2004) "Een pro- of anti-suicide, of een neutrale filosofische practijk?" in Filosofie, Vol. 14, 3, pp. 42-43. (in Dutch) --- (2004) "Marinoff's Therapy:
A Critique of his Books on Philosophical Practice" in International Journal of Philosophical Practice , Vol. 2.2. ---- (2004) "Philosophical
Counseling, Philosophical Psychoanalysis, First-aid, and the
Philosophical Cafe" in Universitas, A Monthly Review of Philosophy and Culture, Vol. 31, 1, pp. 109-120. (Published in Chinese and English). Also published in Spanish as "Orientacion Filosofica, Psicoanalisis filosofico,Primeros Auxilios y Cafe filosofico" in the on-line journal A Parte Rei 40, Julio 2005.
Reviews: ----- (2001) "Rousseau"; in The
Philosophers' Web Magazine and in The
Philosophers' Magazine (2001) Vol. 14. 1,
p. 60. ----- (2001) "Bedside and Philosophically
Oriented Clinical Practice," Journal of Radical
Psychology, Vol. 2, 1. --- (2003) "Threads of Life:
Autobiography and the Will", in a/b: Auto/Biography Studies , Vol. 18, 1, pp. 145-149. --- (2005) "Critical African Psychology
", in Journal of Radical Psychology , Vol. 4, No. 1.
--- (2005) "Philosophical Counseling, Not Personal New Age Therapy", in Journal of Radical Psychology , Vol. 4, No. 2.
