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Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9781442675094

Content: Presenting a highly innovative exploration of the relationship between philosophical and psychological issues, Edwin L. Hersch argues that psychological theories and practices inescapably rest upon a series of philosophical positions ? whether they are acknowledged and reflected upon or not. To examine this proposition Hersch develops his Hierarchy of Levels of Theoretical or Philosophical Inquiry Method, which involves the systematic consideration of a series of philosophical questions pertaining to the ontological, general epistemological, field-specific epistemological, and psychological stances adopted (either explicitly or implicitly) by any particular psychological theory. By using this hierarchical framework the book then attempts to develop a new approach to psychological theory and psychotherapeutic practice based largely on the premises of phenomenological philosophy.The scope of the book cuts across a variety of theoretical and professional disciplinary approaches within the broad psychological field in demonstrating the relevance of certain philosophical issues for all of them. Clinicians, theorists and students in the psychological field are presented with a palatable introduction to the importance and inevitability of dealing with philosophy in pursuing their own work. Furthermore, his philosophical explications of a variety of psychological theories provides a new tool with which to better understand, compare, or assess any internal inconsistencies.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Tables, Charts, Figures, and Diagrams -- , Acknowledgments -- , 1.‘Know Thy Philosophical Self’ -- , Part I. Ontology: The Groundwork and Foundation -- , 2. Ontology (Level A): The Question of Reality -- , 3. Ontology (Level B): Our Basic Position or Relation to Reality -- , Part II. General Epistemology: The Framework and Infrastructure -- , 4. General Epistemology (Level C): The Question of Knowledge in General -- , 5. Validity (Level D): How Do We Validate or Assign Truth-Value to What We Know? -- , Part III. Field-Specific Epistemology: The Basic Layout and Design -- , 6. Field-Specific Epistemology (Level E): The Nature and Limits of Knowledge within a Specific Field or Discipline -- , 7. Field-Specific Validity (Level F): How Do We Validate What We Know in ‘the Psychotherapy Situation’? -- , Part IV. Psychology: The ‘Finished’ Living and Working Areas -- , 8. Psychology (Level G), Part One: The General Context of Human Experience -- , 9. Psychology (Level G), Part Two: Psychotherapy and Encounters in the Purple Zone -- , 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 -- , 11. Psychology (Level G), Part Four: Examining Our Philosophical Differences in the Psychological Field -- , Philosophy is Unavoidable -- , Glossary -- , Notes -- , References -- , Index

Language: English

DOI: 10.3138/9781442675094

URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442675094

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Format: 1 online resource (438 p.)

ISBN: 1-4875-9001-6 , 1-281-99653-X , 9786611996536 , 1-4426-7509-8

Series Statement: Heritage

Content: "The book draws on theoretical and clinical approaches within the broad psychological field to show the relevance of certain philosophical issues. A number of case studies are presented, demonstrating to clinicians, theorists, and students the importance and inevitability of dealing with philosophy in pursuing their own work. In addition, the author's philosophical explications of various psychological theories provide a new tool with which to better understand and compare them."--Jacket

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , 'Know Thy Philosophical Self' -- , The Need to Know Thy Philosophical Self -- , The Hierarchical Method of Theory Analysis and Theory Development -- , Ontology: The Groundwork and Foundation -- , Ontology (Level A): The Question of Reality -- , Realism and Relativism -- , Why I Have Chosen Ontology as Our Starting Point: Cartesian and Non-Cartesian Points of View -- , The Question of Reality -- , Clinical Interlude -- , Clarifying Some Philosophical Terminology -- , The Ontological Level A Position to Be Adopted in This Work -- , Ontology (Level B): Our Basic Position or Relation to Reality -- , Two Major Paradigms: Cartesian Dualism versus 'Being-in-the-World' -- , The Old Paradigm -- , Phenomenology and the Beginnings of a New Paradigm -- , General Epistemology: The Framework and Infrastructure -- , General Epistemology (Level C): The Question of Knowledge in General -- , Beginnings of the 'Beams-of-Light-through-Time' Model -- , Beginnings of a General Epistemology Based on a Non-Dualistic Model -- , Questions of Relativism Reconsidered -- , A Non-Dualistic Model of Human Experience -- , The Beam-of-Light Model -- , The Phenomenology of Human Experience: Implications for the General Epistemology of the New Paradigm -- , Validity (Level D): How Do We Validate or Assign Truth-Value to What We Know? -- , Correspondence -- , Coherence -- , Pragmatics -- , Toward a More Integrative General Theory of Validity -- , An Example of a Hermeneutic Truth That Is Not Entirely Relativistic -- , Field-Specific Epistemology: The Basic Layout and Design. , Issued also in print. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-4875-9162-4

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8020-8734-5

Language: English

DOI: 10.3138/9781442675094