COURSE UNIT TITLE

: THERAPEUTIC PHILOSOPHY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
PSI 3026 THERAPEUTIC PHILOSOPHY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Psychology

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR METIN BAL

Offered to

Psychology

Course Objective

The main objective of this course is to present and analyse the philosophical means, methods and theories that are thought to be helpful to understand psyche" (soul, spirit, mind, etc.). This approach will give psychologists or psychotherapists a philosophical hand to touch on 'psyche'. This course aims to broaden psychologists' and psychotherapists' viewpoints in a philosophical way in order to develop a multidimensional approach in the analysis of the concepts that occupy an important place in the history of philosophy such as 'pathos', 'pain', 'experience', 'truth', 'reality', 'hope', 'fear', 'nature', 'health', 'will', 'desire', 'cure', 'madness', 'node', 'code', 'dialogue', 'loss', 'death', etc.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Describe in a philosophical way modes of the state of mind sensed by the people mentally healty,
2   Make understandable and experienceable the psychic motion of human being by using philosophical means,
3   Use philosophical means in order to constitute multidimensional perspective to look carefully at the motions of psyche,
4   Be conscious of philosophical concepts, methods and theories that may help therapy
5   Follow at an international level the recent searches made on the subject of therapeutic philosophy.
6   Be able to critically evaluate the researches concerned with the subject of therapeutic philosophy.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Therapeutic philosophy from the ancient times to the contemporary world.
2 Disregard of the pathos and anesthetic thought: Plato s Symposium
3 Philosophical hermeneutics: Dilthey
4 Phenomenology: Husserl and Heidegger.
5 Human mind as a mirror of nature in modern philosophy: Descartes, Locke and Kant.
6 State of therapeutic thinking at the present time.
7 Midterm exam
8 Nietzsche and return to life
9 Absurd and the other. Camus Plague as an example of a therapy.
10 Sartre and transformation of human existence.
11 Truth as a social practice: Dewey
12 Dialogue and cultural discourse: Rorty.
13 Philosophical mapping of human being as a psychic being in the late 20th and early 21th century: Foucault and Jameson.
14 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

"Terapötik Varolana Felsefi Açıdan Bakış", Ado Huygens, Belçika Dasein-analiz Merkezi Başkanı, Bibliotech, Felsefe, Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, Sayı: 10 Yıl: 5, Kasım/Aralık 2009, Ankara. ss. 61-63. Platon (2012) Phaidon, Ruh Üzerine, Yunancadan çeviren Nazile Kalaycı, Istanbul: Kabalcı Yayıncılık. Platon (2007) Symposion, Yunancadan çeviren: Eyüp Çoraklı, Istanbul: Kabalcı Yayınevi. Burke, Edmund (2008) Yüce ve Güzel Kavramlarımızın Kaynağı Hakkında Felsefi Bir Soruşturma, çev. Barış Gümüşbaş, Ankara: BilgeSu. "Heidegger's Reading of Aristotle's Concept of Pathos", Marjolein Oele (2012) Philosophy, Paper 18. Derrida, Jacques (2012) Platon'un Eczanesi, çeviren: Zeynep Direk, Istanbul: Pinhan Yayıncılık.Aristoteles (2000) Ruh Üzerine, çev. Doç. Dr. Zeki Özcan, Istanbul: Alfa Basım Yayım Dağıtım Ltd. Şti. Ruhçözümlemesine Giriş Konferansları, Freud, Sigmund (1998) çev. Emre Kapkın-Ayşen Kapkın, Istanbul: Payel Yayınevi.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Lecture
2. Presentation
3. Discussion
4. Review the literature

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + ASG * 0.10 + FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + ASG * 0.10 + RST * 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

1. LO 1-3:The students' performance will be evaluated by the questions that will be asked in midterm exams.
2. LO 5-6: The students' performance will be evaluated by the questions that will be asked in final exams.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

%70 attendance is required.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

metin.bal@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Tuesday-Wednesday 12:00-13:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 3 39
Preparation for midterm exam 1 13 13
Preparation for final exam 1 14 14
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
Preparing presentations 1 6 6
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 125

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10
LO.155
LO.25
LO.355
LO.4555
LO.55
LO.65554

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