فائزه خوش طینت

This research is about philosophical counseling with a focus on Cohen's logic-based therapy (LBT) and its purpose is to study the application of Aristotle's philosophy, especially his logic and moral philosophy in LBT. The main question is in what sense LBT is considered Aristotelian and what is the contribution of Aristotle's teachings to the validity of this approach and its transformation into an independent paradigm in philosophical counseling.

At first, with an analytical and documentary study, we have introduced the field of philosophical counseling as an independent method from other   therapeutic   method. In our   view, the methodical nature of this field is one of the things that plays a central role in introducing   hilosophical counseling   to the therapeutic society as an independent approach... . LBT's method is also one of the approaches that fulfills this goal, therefore, in the following, we have examined the philosophical and logical foundations of this method and its metaphysical foundations.Then we have explained logic-based therapy and its Aristotelian components, and we have discussed these components mainly in three Aristotelian categories: logic, moral philosophy, and his theory of will. LBT considers human feelings and emotions as deductive structures and believes that people falling into fallacies in these deductions endangers their mental health. To treat this problem, virtues should be replaced by these fallacies. Here, we have presented a reading of the relationship between the fallacies discussed by Cohen and Aristotle's theory of logical errors, as well as the relationship of their alternative virtues with Aristotle's virtue ethics, and we have analyzed the LBT solution to establishing these virtues in the clients in the light of Aristotle's theory about will.

Finally, while explaining the paradigmatic aspects of LBT through its philosophical and Aristotelian foundations, we have tried to separate two categories of Aristotelian aspects of this LBT: aspects of the therapy that are Aristotelian both in terms of foundations and content elements, and aspects of it that only offers its teachings based on Aristotelian foundations, new teachings that may not necessarily be Aristotelian. Finally, the result was that the second aspect of LBT is more serious.