The first person in Canada to be awarded a doctorate based on his theoretical and practical work in philosophical counseling, Raabe (philosophy, Simon Fraser U.) explains how philosophy is becoming relevant to people's lives as a therapeutic tool. He critiques both existing theoretical conceptions of the field and accounts of its practice, then presents and defends a model he claims captures the best conceptions and reports of practice and is comprehensive, more positive and explicit, and perhaps more definitive than previous ones. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)