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ASPCP Newsletter, 2000

INTERNATIONAL DECLARATION OF PEACE, CO-OPERATION, AND PHILOSOPHY

This INTERNATIONAL DECLARATION of PEACE, COOPERATION, AND PHILOSOPHY penned by distinguished philosophical practitioners throughout the world casts a bright light on the challenges that lie ahead in the quest for world peace and the multiple roles that applied philosophy can play in meeting these challenges. The pandemic, global unrest, climate change, poverty, oppressive, anti-democratic government regimes, and now a war in Ukraine that has created a humanitarian crisis cannot go unexamined by the world philosophical community. Nor can the latter stand idle while countless human lives, and indeed the very survival of planet, hang in the balance. This Declaration posted HERE (English translation follows Spanish translation) is a manifesto intended to serve as a catalyst to…Read more here!

JOINT STATEMENT OF THE NATIONAL PHILOSOPHICAL COUNSELING ASSOCIATION AND MEMBERS OF MASTER OF PHILOSOPHICAL COUNSELING AND CONSULTANCY, WEST UNIVERSITY OF TIMISOARA, ROMANIA
REGARDING THE RUSSIAN INVASION INTO UKRAINE

NPCA in Vice: Philosophy as Therapy

A fantastic article by Shayla Love that explores philosophical counseling, its relationship to psychology, and the history of the two major philosophical counseling organizations in the United States — NPCA & APPA. Read the article here!

Overcoming OCD with Philosophy

In this video Dr. Cohen examines the logic, phenomenology, and neurology of obsessiveness, and explains how philosophy can change the neural pathways that generate obsessions. Watch here!

Book Establishes Milestone in Philosophical Counseling

Since its inception in 1992, the NCPA has maintained the complimentary and mutually supportive relationship between philosophical and psychological counseling. Now, NPCA founder and creator of Logic-Based Therapy (LBT), Elliot D. Cohen, has reached an historical milestone in demonstrating this thesis with the publication of his new book from Routledge, Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions for Self-Defeating Beliefs: Helping Clients to Overcome the Tyranny of ‘I Can’t’. Read more here!