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Psychoanalytic Theory and Clinical Relevance - What Makes a Theory Consequential for Practice? (Paperback)
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Psychoanalytic Theory and Clinical Relevance - What Makes a Theory Consequential for Practice? (Paperback)
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In this provocative contribution to both psychoanalytic theory and
the philosophy of science, Louis Berger grapples with the nature of
"consequential" theorizing, i.e., theorizing that is relevant to
what transpires in clinical practice. By examining analysis as a
genre of "state process formalism" - the standard format of
scientific theories - Berger demonstrates why contemporary
theorizing inevitably fails to explain crucial aspects of practice.
His critique, in this respect, pertains both to the formal
structure of psychoanalytic explanation and the technical language
through which this structure gains expression. The pragmatic
recommendations that issue from this critique are illustrated with
respect to a number of perennial problem areas besetting analysis
and cognate disciplines. In a discussion that encompases theories
of affect, issues in family therapy, the nature of first-language
acquisition, and the philisophical topics of free will and
determinism, Berger shows that certain systems of representation
(including ordinary language) can describe the psychological realm
adequately, and that such systems necessarily follow modern physics
in rejecting naive assumptions about the separability of theory and
practice. His proposals culminate in a "nonhierarchical" conception
of psychoanalytic theory that assigns a separate status to the
clinically pragmatic level of theorizing. In both his critique of
contemporary analysis and his reconstructive proposals, Berger
fuses into a highly readable argument a fascinating range of
insights culled from epistemology, linguistics, physics, logic,
computer science, history, and aesthetics. More impressively still,
he demonstrates how an investigation of psychoanalytic theory can
serve as a vehicle for examining pervasive epistemological issues
in both philosophy and the social sciences.
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