Patrizia Salvaterra, Italy: “Closing Report on the Day”
Patrizia F. Salvaterra is an Italian philosophical counsellor certified by APPA since 2012. She lives in the countryside near Verona and has been a member of the association founded by Lou Marinoff and Pierre Grimes since 2009. In more recent years, she has also joined PRAGMA, an Italian association of philosophical practitioners, and PHI (Philosophical…
José Barrientos-Rastrojo, Spain: “Philosophical Practice with Vulnerable Populations”
José Barrientos-Rastrojo is Full Professor at the University of Seville (Spain). He began to work as Philosophical Counselor in 2000. He has leaded several international projects including BOECIO project (that work with more than two thousands of people with vulnerabilities), KRINEIN (Philosophical Practice for volunteers and NGOs) and SENECA (Philosophical Practice for Elders). He has…
Dr. Chet Sunde, USA: “Platonomy: The Art and Science of Self-Governance on the Road to Eudaimonia”
Dr. Chet Sunde is a licensed clinical psychologist in Redding, California, specializing in PTSD treatment for combat veterans and first responders. He developed Platonomy, a therapeutic approach based on Plato’s constitutional psychology that identifies a four-part model of the psyche, including the overlooked fourth element of constitutional governance (auto politeia). Dr. Sunde created the SELF…
Ross Reed, USA: “Existential Philosophical Counseling, Part 1”
Ross Channing Reed has been a philosophical counselor in private practice since 1998, and a member of the American Philosophical Practitioners Association since its inception. He is the author of Love and Death: An Existential Theory of Addiction, The Liberating Art of Philosophy, Mindscapes, Precarity, Trauma, Addiction, Love (forthcoming), other works of philosophy and fiction,…
Hamad Al-Rayes, Bahrain: “Living on the God’s Good Side: Eudaimonia as the Reintegration of the Daimonic”
Hamad Al-Rayes is a Senior Lecturer and the student counselor at the Bahrain Institute of Banking and Finance (BIBF), where he teaches critical thinking, business ethics, and academic writing and research skills, among other subjects. His approach to counseling is fundamentally based on the principles of philosophical practice as delineated by the APPA and Logic-Based…
Zhiyuan Wang, China: “Live a Happy Life According to Aristotelian Thought”
Platow Wong (Ph.D., Nanjing University) is Professor of Philosophy, Philosophical Counselor, Life Mentor, core member of the Nanjing School of Philosophical Consulting. As a visiting scholar, He has done some important research works on philosophical practice at CCNY. He expertises in Existential Therapy, Logotherapy, Cognitive Therapy, and has helped more than 1000 people with their…
