Imprisoned Minds

So that we can really engage with the otherness encountered in each of our patients we need to maintain an open mind. But how do we achieve this when our minds tend to be filled (in our training and subsequent reading) with what we are expecting to find? The author tries to engage with this paradox,...

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Published in:American imago 2011-07, Vol.68 (2), p.287-295
Main Author: CASEMENT, PATRICK J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Clinical medicine
Medical practice
Mind
Otherness
Patients
Popper, Karl Raimund, Sir (1902-1994)
Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysts
Religion
Self
Self image
Training
Unconscious mind
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Summary:So that we can really engage with the otherness encountered in each of our patients we need to maintain an open mind. But how do we achieve this when our minds tend to be filled (in our training and subsequent reading) with what we are expecting to find? The author tries to engage with this paradox, emphasizing the need to restore a position of noncertainty in our thinking in order to counteract the imprisonment of too much sureness in our clinical work. Over against that he also considers some of those times when we need to be more sure than tentative.
ISSN:0065-860X
1085-7931
1085-7931
DOI:10.1353/aim.2011.0022