| Description |
xv, 464 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
I. Historical Background. 1. Trouble at the Source: Freud's Methodologic Conflict. 2. The Postpositivist Turn and the "Lingering Ghost of Positivism" in Interpretive Methodology -- II. Contemporary Approaches. 3. Methodologic Lag in Some Contemporary Models of Interpretive Inquiry. 4. Some Language-Based Models of Interpretive Methodology: Evaluation of Linguistic, Discourse, and Narrative Models -- III. Nonclinical Comparisons. 5. Some Nonclinical Methods of Inferring Latent Contents: Comparisons with Clinical Inference and Interpretation. 6. Evaluation of "Commonsense" (Intentional) Psychology as a Model of Interpretive Inquiry -- IV. Justifying Interpretations. 7. The Probity of Clinical Interpretations in the Light of Grunbaum's Critiques. 8. Justification of Interpretations: Evaluation of Individual Methods. 9. Pluralistic, Posttherapeutic Justification of Interpretations: An Illustrative Case -- V. Summary and Conclusions |
|
10. The Methodology of Clinical Interpretation: Problems and Progress |
| Summary |
Clinicians tend to think of interpretation mainly as a type of therapeutic intervention, the communication of depth-psychological information to patients based on methods of inferring latent mental contents. But the interpretive process, Philip Rubovits-Seitz informs us, is first and foremost a form of inquiry, an attempt to gain depth-psychological understanding in which the therapist's job is primarily to learn, not to teach. Depth-Psychological Understanding deals with the unsolved problems, limitations, and scientifically tenuous status of clinical interpretation. Rubovits-Seitz shows interpretive inquiry to be an exceedingly complex and incompletely understood process - a process that involves conscious, preconscious, and presumably unconscious mental operations along with numerous components and overlapping stages |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-430) and indexes |
| Subject |
Psychoanalysis.
|
|
Psychodynamic psychotherapy.
|
|
Psychoanalytic Interpretation.
|
|
Psychoanalytic Therapy -- methods.
|
|
Psychoanalytic Interpretation.
|
|
Psychoanalytic Therapy -- methods.
|
| LC no. |
98005988 |
| ISBN |
0881632791 |
|
