بازسازی گفت‌وگو: خوانش‌هایی در فلسفه روان‌شناسی بالینی

While clinical psychology and philosophy often appear as separate disciplines, this interdisciplinary anthology, culled from a diverse literature that has evolved over the past 30 years in psychology, philosophy, and psychiatry, presents the philosophical foundations of many clinical controversies, thus integrating the fields. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. This book is intended as a remedy, a bibliotherapy of sorts, for a serious malady that afflicts the mental health professions themselves but that remains largely undiagnosed. The disorder requiring urgent treatment is the splitting of clinical theory from its historical and logical foundation in Western philosophy, the resulting inability to speak effectively about theoretical differences, and the fragmentation into rival professions and theoretically isolated "schools" of treatment. What is required as an antidote to this tendency toward a dogmatic, schismatic, and often cultist approach to clinical theory is the recognition of the philosophical nature of these theoretical disputes and the restoration of philosophical methods of analysis and dialogue to a central role in the development of clinical theory. In this manner, the energies that currently are invested in the protection of professional turf and ideological diatribe may be devoted instead to collaborative discourse, research, and action. This is what will be required to make genuine headway in understanding that particular form of human misery and suffering that is variously called behavior disorders, emotional disturbance, problems in living, or mental illness. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved) Although clinical psychology and philosophy often appear as separate disciplines, this interdisciplinary anthology presents the philosophical foundations of many clinical controversies. This integration of the two disciplines is suitable for researchers, practitioners and classroom use.