Antiscientific attitudes within psychotherapy: Concluding comments

In all of the articles of this special section (Beutler & Harwood, Erwin, Jopling, and Spence), the authors express their commitment to a conventional view of truth and objectivity, a view which serves as a precondition for their commitment to a true science of psychotherapy. In my concluding co...

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Published in:Journal of clinical psychology 2001-01, Vol.57 (1), p.53-62
Main Author: Held, Barbara S.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Attitude
Bias
Credibility
Epistemology
Humans
Postmodernism
Psychology
Psychotherapy - standards
Science
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Summary:In all of the articles of this special section (Beutler & Harwood, Erwin, Jopling, and Spence), the authors express their commitment to a conventional view of truth and objectivity, a view which serves as a precondition for their commitment to a true science of psychotherapy. In my concluding comments, I first describe the particular focus of each author's concerns about current standards of truth and objectivity in the field. I then anticipate the ways in which their arguments might be challenged by those who now challenge the possibility of truth and objectivity (in any conventional sense) within psychotherapy, or, more broadly, within the human sciences, or, more radically, within the physical sciences. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Clin Psychol 57: 53–62, 2001.
ISSN:0021-9762
1097-4679
DOI:10.1002/1097-4679(200101)57:1<53::AID-JCLP7>3.0.CO;2-K