Therapeutic Resorts of Philosophy

The idea of therapy was addressed in the field of philosophy with different connotations over tradition. This article presents an approach of the therapy as application of contemporary practical philosophy. Philosophical counseling, as an outstanding field, is an alternative that can join forms of psychological or psychiatric therapeutic intervention, such as CBT, with which it resembles as for methodological aspect. Specificity of philosophical counseling is given by the depathologization vision on the problems of the human being's life. With the purpose to discover the philosophy proper to each one of us, of the overall rationalizing vision of the world, this relatively new philosophical field revives through the Socratic dialogue and other instruments of intervention, the traditional ideal of practicing philosophy in the world and for the world.