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PHILOSOPHICAL PSYCHOTHERAPY AND COUNSELING IN THE MEDICAL ENGLISH CLASSROOM
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The teacher of English as a foreign/ second language (EFL, ESL), in general and the one for specific purposes (ESP), in particular needs to bring specialty knowledge to the classroom to adjust to the requirements of the students’ specialism. Alongside comes the (cap)ability to pass on language skills to learners and sensitize them in matters of intercultural communication. In this sense, Medical English classes (mainly addressed to students in General Medicine but also fitting Nursing and Nutrition ones) could particularly benefit from practical philosophy. Therefore, we draw on Lou Marinoff’s work, Plato, Not Prozac! Applying Eternal Wisdom to Everyday Problems (2000) or the more scholarly views on counseling via existential psychotherapy encapsulated in Irvin D. Yalom’s novels, When Nietzsche Wept (1993) and Lying on the Couch (1997). Thus, the aim of this paper is to account for the two authors’ work to the extent to which it can be used in Medical English seminars when dealing with the communication between doctor and patient in its professional to lay acception of intralingual translation.
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