|
Showing 1 - 3 of
3 matches in All Departments
In the current professional climate, the calls for evidenced-based
treatment and the prestige accorded to this emblem, mental health
professionals are asking: for what purpose do we seek evidence? For
our students? For the public at large? For an inner sense of
feeling supported by science? Most disciplines are concerned with
cumulative knowledge, aimed toward self-affirmation and
self-definition, that is, establishing a sense of legitimacy. The
three parts of this volume are directed toward the goal of
affirming a public and private sense of the legitimacy of
psychoanalysis, thereby shaping professional identity. Each
contribution adheres to the precepts of scientific inquiry, with a
commitment to affirming or disconfirming clinical propositions,
utilizing consensually agreed upon methods of observation, and
arriving at inferences that are persuasive and have the potential
to move the field forward. Beyond this, each part of this book
describes distinct methodologies that generate evidence pertaining
to public health policy, the persuasiveness and integrity of our
psychoanalytic concepts, and phenomena encountered in daily
clinical practice.
In our current professional climate, with calls for
'evidenced-based treatment', and in light of the prestige accorded
to this emblem, we can ask: for what purpose do we seek evidence?
For our students? For the public at large? For an inner sense of
feeling supported by science? Most disciplines are concerned with
cumulative knowledge, aimed toward self-affirmation and
self-definition, that is, establishing a sense of legitimacy. The
three parts of this volume are directed toward the goal of
affirming a public and private sense of the legitimacy of
psychoanalysis, thereby shaping professional identity. In each
contribution we adhere to the precepts of 'scientific inquiry',
with a commitment to affirming or disconfirming clinical
propositions, utilizing consensually agreed upon methods of
observation, and arriving at inferences that are persuasive and
have the potential to move the field forward. Beyond this, each
part of this book describes distinct methodologies that generate
evidence pertaining to public health policy, the persuasiveness and
integrity of our psychoanalytic concepts, and phenomena encountered
in daily clinical practice.
in the aftermath of September 11, mental health workers from the
world's war zones gathered for a unique conference to address the
challenges imposed on communities by terrorism. Specialists from
northern ireland, Israel, the Middle East, South America, and
Oklahoma City shared their expertise in the conference of which
this book is the record.
|
|