From philosophy to psychotherapy : a phenomenological model for psychology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis / Edwin L. Hersch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hersch, Edwin L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Phenomenological psychology.

Psychotherapy--Philosophy.

Psychotherapy.

Phenomenology.

Physical Description:

xviii, 417 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2003]

Contents:

1 'Know Thy Philosophical Self' 3

The Need to Know Thy Philosophical Self 3

The Hierarchical Method of Theory Analysis and Theory Development 11

Part I Ontology: The Groundwork and Foundation 21

2 Ontology (Level A): The Question of Reality 23

Realism and Relativism 23

Why I Have Chosen Ontology as Our Starting Point: Cartesian and Non-Cartesian Points of View 23

The Question of Reality 27

Clinical Interlude 30

Clarifying Some Philosophical Terminology 34

The Ontological Level A Position to Be Adopted in This Work 37

3 Ontology (Level B): Our Basic Position or Relation to Reality 39

Two Major Paradigms: Cartesian Dualism versus 'Being-in-the-World' 39

The Old Paradigm 39

Phenomenology and the Beginnings of a New Paradigm 46

Part II General Epistemology: The Framework and Infrastructure 61

4 General Epistemology (Level C): The Question of Knowledge in General 63

Section I Beginnings of the 'Beams-of-Light-through-Time' Model 63

Beginnings of a General Epistemology Based on a Non-Dualistic Model 68

Questions of Relativism Reconsidered 70

A Non-Dualistic Model of Human Experience 73

The Beam-of-Light Model 74

Section II The Phenomenology of Human Experience: Implications for the General Epistemology of the New Paradigm 80

5 Validity (Level D): How Do We Validate or Assign Truth-Value to What We Know? 92

Correspondence 94

Coherence 100

Pragmatics 102

Toward a More Integrative General Theory of Validity 104

An Example of a Hermeneutic Truth That Is Not Entirely Relativistic 105

Part III Field-Specific Epistemology: The Basic Layout and Design 117

6 Field-Specific Epistemology (Level E): The Nature and Limits of Knowledge within a Specific Field or Discipline 119

Section I The Concept of a Field-Specific Epistemological Level of Inquiry, Its Utility, and Its Philosophical Grounding Positions 119

Section II The Beams-of-Light-through-Time Model Extended to the Two-Person Situation, the Concept of 'The Purple Zone,' and the Philosophical Anatomy of 'the Psychotherapy Situation' 133

'Major Effects' in 'the Philosophical Anatomy of the Psychotherapy Situation': Areas 'A,' 'B,' and 'AB' 137

Portions of the Purple Zone (Areas 'x,' 'y,' and 'z') 140

Summary of the Definitions and Limits of 'the Interactional Field,' 'Purple Zone,' or 'Intersubjective Space,' from the Perspectives of Various Levels of Theoretical Inquiry 142

Implications of This Interactional Purple Zone Model of the Psychotherapy Situation in Terms of the Philosophical Positions Examined in Section I of This Chapter 143

Comparison and Contrasts with the Set of Philosophical Assumptions Central to Position 1: The 'Realist-Dualist-Objectivist-Correspondence' Position 143

Comparison and Contrasts with the Set of Philosophical Assumptions Central to Position 2: The 'Realist-Dualist-Subjectivist-Coherence' Position 147

Comparison and Contrasts with the Set of Philosophical Assumptions Central to Position 3: The 'Realist-Non-Dualistic-Co-constitutional-Hermeneutic' Position 150

7 Field-Specific Validity (Level F): How Do We Validate What We Know in 'the Psychotherapy Situation'? 152

The Search for an Appropriate Set of Validation Criteria Applicable to the Field of Psychotherapy: A Convergence of Theories, or an Integration of Them 165

The Hermeneutic Circle Revisited: The Hermeneutic Spiral 168

Practical Reasoning, Wisdom, and Living with an Epistemology of Uncertainty 169

Part IV Psychology: The 'Finished' Living and Working Areas 173

Level G: How Do People Feel, Think, Behave, and Interact? In What Context? And How Can We Help Them Psychotherapeutically? 175

8 Psychology (Level G), Part One: The General Context of Human Experience 177

Issues of Consistency 177

Further Development of the Beams-of-Light-through-Time Model 180

The Primacy of Care 181

The Primacy of Temporality 184

Our Epistemological Situation and the Concept of 'Horizons' Revisited 185

The Primacy of Emotion 186

The Primacy of Imagination 189

Imagination, Psychopathology, and the Centrality of the Experiential 189

Temporality and Motivation 194

Physics, Philosophy and 'Forces': Other Notions of Time and Space and Possible Implications for a Different Way of Looking at 'Drives,' 'Forces,' and Motivation in Psychology 199

Einstein's Theory of Gravity and Motivational Forces: Can 'Cares' Be Seen as Bending the Metaphoric Landscape of Our Phenomenological World(s) Much as 'Masses' Do in the World of Physics? 203

The Five-Plus Dimensional Beams-of-Light-through-Time Model 204

Multidimensional World Restructuring by the Cares of Everyday Life: Jeff's World 207

9 Psychology (Level G), Part Two: Psychotherapy and Encounters in the Purple Zone 215

(A) Essential Elements of a Phenomenological Psychology Based on the Beams-of-Light-through-Time Model 215

(B) Dichotomous Thinking and Its Discontents: A Reinterpretation of Some Central Themes, Concepts, Constructs, and Phenomena in the Theory and Practice of Psychotherapy as Seen from the Perspective of the Beams-of-Light-through-Time Model 227

'Transference' and 'Counter-Transference' 227

Conflict and Defence 242

'Internal Representation' and Representationalism 248

Consciousness and Unconsciousness, or Levels of Awareness and Reflectivity 252

Mind versus Body Issues 256

10 Psychology (Level G), Part Three: The Beams-of-Light-through-Time Model Applied to a Clinical Case, and a New Approach to the Mental Status Examination 264

Previous Phenomenological and Existential Psychological Literature, and the Philosophy-Psychotherapy Interface 264

Bad Faith and Authenticity 268

Two Views of the Mental Status Examination: A Traditional One Contrasted with a Beams-of-Light-through-Time Based Version 278

Case Example: J.T. 279

11 Psychology (Level G), Part Four: Examining Our Philosophical Differences in the Psychological Field 297

A Means of Philosophical Clarification, Classification, and Comparison of Major Contemporary Psychological Theories and Models 297

Primarily Psychoanalytic or Psychoanalytically Derived Theories 299

The Classical Psychoanalytic Model of Sigmund Freud 299

Object Relations Theory 306

Kohut and Self Psychology: A Less Objectivist Approach 311

Intersubjectivity Theory 314

Constructionism, Constructivism, Narrativism 319

Primarily Non-Psychoanalytic Psychological Theories 324

Behaviourism 324

Cognitive Psychotherapy 325

Biological Psychiatry 330

The Beams-of-Light-through-Time Model 337

Claiming the Middle Ground: Concluding Reflections on the Objectivism-Subjectivism Debate 341

12 Philosophy Is Unavoidable 345

The Interplay of Theory and Practice 348

From Reflection to Perception: Learning to Look at the World Anew 349.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0802087345 :

OCLC:

51242891