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1 online resource (xx, 654 pages) |
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Introduction to the philosophy of clinical psychology / Ronald B. Miller -- Part I. Philosophical perspectives on general psychology -- Introduction : Philosophical problems of psychology / Ronald B. Miller -- Philosophical embarrassments of psychology / Herbert Feigl -- Logic and psychology / Michael Polanyi -- Peaceful coexistence in psychology / Charles Taylor -- Psychotherapy vs. morality / Joseph Margolis -- Part II. Philosophical issues of the behavioral and cognitive-behavioral approaches -- Introduction : Philosophical problems of the behavioral and cognitive-behaviroal approaches / Ronald B. Miller -- Whatever happened to psychology as the science of behavior? / B.F. Skinner -- Scientific psychology and radical behaviorism : important distinctions based in scientism and objectivism / Michael J. Mahoney -- Radical behaviorism in reconciliation with phenomenology / Willard F. Day -- Behavior therapy and the ideology of modernity / Robert L. Woolfolk and Frank C. Richardson -- Ethical relativism and behavior therapy / Richard F. Kitchener -- Slicing the ethical Gordian Knot : a response to Kitchener / Arthur C. Houts and Leonard Krasner -- Part III. Philosophical issues of the biological approach -- Introduction : Philosophical problems of the biological approach / Ronald B. Miller -- The myth of mental illness / Thomas S. Szasz -- From rationalization to reason / Seymour S. Kety -- The cognitive revolution and mind/brain issues / Karl H. Pribram -- DSM-III and the politics-science dichotomy syndrome : a response to Thomas E. Schacht's "DSM-III and the politics of truth" / Robert L. Spitzer -- Philosophical issues of the phenomenological and existential approaches -- Introduction : The philosophy of humanistic approaches / Ronald B. Miller -- Persons or science? A philosophical question / Carl R. Rogers -- Lockean vs. Kantian theoretical models and the "cause" of therapeutic change / Joseph F. Rychlak -- Hermeneutic inquiry in the study of human conduct / Martin J. Packer -- Husserl revisited : the forgotten distinction between psychology and phenomenology / Jerry L. Jennings -- The problem of evil : an open letter to Carl Rogers / Rollo May -- Reply to Rollo May's letter to Carl Rogers / Carl R. Rogers -- Humanistic psychology and the human but tough-minded psychologist / Michael Wertheimer -- Psychotherapy and religious values / Allen E. Bergin |
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Part V. Philosophical issues of the psychoanalytic approach -- Introduction : Philosophical problems of the psychoanalytic approach / Ronald B. Miller -- The question of proof in Freud's psychoanalytic writings / Paul Ricoeur -- Freud's theory : the perspective of a philosopher of science / Adolf Grunbaum -- The problematical self in Kant and Kohut / Richard D. Chessick -- Humanism and psychotherapy : a personal statement of the therapist's essential values / Hans H. Strupp -- Some limits to the integration of psychoanalytic and behavior therapy -- Stanley B. Messer and Meir Winokur -- On theory, practice, and the nature of integration / Paul L. Wachtel -- Part VI. Philosophical issues of the family systems approach -- Introduction : Philosophical problems of the systems approach / Ronald B. Miller -- The cybernetics of "self" : a theory of alchoholism / Gregory Bateson -- The confusion about epistemology and "Epistemology"- and what to do about it / Barbara S. Held and Edward Pols -- Against the grain : decentering family therapy / Gerold D. Erickson -- Ecosystemic epistemology : critical implications for the aesthetics and pragmatics of family therapy / Bradford P. Keeney and Douglas H. Sprenkle -- Part VII. Philosophy of science and the research endeavor in clinical psychology -- Introduction : Philosophical problems of clinical research / Ronald B. Miller -- Implications for psychology of the new philosophy of science / Peter T. Manicas and Paul F. Secord-- Theoretical risks and tabular asterisks : Sir Karl, Sir Ronald, and the slow progress of soft psychology / Paul E. Meehl -- The social constructionist movement in modern psychology / Kenneth J. Gergen -- Discovery-oriented psychotherapy research : rationale, aims, and methods / Alvin R. Mahrer -- Toward an idiothetic psychology of personality / James T. Lamiell -- Investigative reporting as a research method : an analysis of Bernstein and Woodward's All the President's men / Murray Levine -- The role of values in the science of psychology / George S. Howard -- Postscript : The role of philosophy in the education of clinical psychologists / Ronald B. Miller |
| Summary |
This book is intended as a remedy, a bibliotherapy of sorts, for a serious malady that afflicts the mental health professions themselves but that remains largely undiagnosed. The disorder requiring urgent treatment is the splitting of clinical theory from its historical and logical foundation in Western philosophy, the resulting inability to speak effectively about theoretical differences, and the fragmentation into rival professions and theoretically isolated "schools" of treatment. What is required as an antidote to this tendency toward a dogmatic, schismatic, and often cultist approach to clinical theory is the recognition of the philosophical nature of these theoretical disputes and the restoration of philosophical methods of analysis and dialogue to a central role in the development of clinical theory. In this manner, the energies that currently are invested in the protection of professional turf and ideological diatribe may be devoted instead to collaborative discourse, research, and action. This is what will be required to make genuine headway in understanding that particular form of human misery and suffering that is variously called behavior disorders, emotional disturbance, problems in living, or mental illness. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Issuing Body |
Made available through: American Psychological Association's PsyBooks Collection |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| In |
PsycBOOKS (EBSCO). EBSCO |
| Subject |
Psychology and philosophy.
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Psychology -- Philosophy.
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Clinical health psychology -- Philosophy
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Clinical psychology.
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Psychological Theory
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Psychology, Clinical
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Clinical psychology
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Clinical health psychology -- Philosophy
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Psychology and philosophy
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Psychology -- Philosophy
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Miller, Ronald B., 1948-
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American Counseling Association
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| ISBN |
1557981663 |
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9781557981660 |
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