Overview

"Clinicians tend to think of interpretation mainly as a type of therapeutic intervention, the communication of depth-psychological information to patients based on methods of inferring latent mental contents. But the interpretive process, Rubovits-Seitz informs us, is first and foremost a form of inquiry, an attempt to gain depth-psycholoigcal understanding in which the therapist's job is primarily to learn, not to teach. ""Depth-Psychological Understanding"" deals with the unsolved problems, limitations and scientifically tenuous status of clinical interpretation. Rubovits-Seitz shows interpretive inquiry to be an exceedingly complex and incompletely understood process - a process that involves conscious, preconscious and presumably unconscious mental operations along with numerous components and overlapping stages. Rubovits-Seitz reviews the paradigm shift in general science from positivism to postpositivism by way of approach. Post-Freudian models of clinical interpretation are evaluated, and clinical methods of interpretation are compared with interpretive approaches in nonclinical fields. The work concludes with a consideration of common but avoidable errors in clinical interpretation along with remedial strategies for dealing with them."

Full Product Details

Author:   Philip F. D. Rubovits-Seitz
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Analytic Press,U.S.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.844kg
ISBN:  

9780881632798

ISBN 10:   0881632791
Pages:   480
Publication Date:   01 September 1998
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

"Preface I. Historical Background 1. Trouble at the Source: Freud's Methodologic Conflict 2. The Postpositivist Turn and the ""Lingering Ghost of Positivism"" in Interpretive Methodology II. Contemporary Approaches 3. Methodologic Lag in Some Contemporary Models of Clinical Interpretation 4. Some Language-Based Models of Interpretive Methodology: Evaluation of Rule-Governed, Discourse, and Narrative Models III. Nonclinical Comparisons 5. Some Nonclinical Methods of Inferring Latent Contents: Comparisons with Clinical Inference and Interpretation 6. Evaluation of ""Commonsense"" (Intentional) Psychology as a Model ofInterpretive Inquiry IV. Justifying Interpretations 7. The Probity of Clinical Interpretations in the Light of Grunbaum's Critiques 8. Justification of Interpretations: Evaluation of Individual Methods 9. Pluralistic, Posttherapeutic Justification of Interpretations: An Illustrative Case  V. Summary and Conclusions 10. The Methodology of Clinical Interpretations:Problems and Progress"

Reviews

<p> I read Depth-Psychological Understanding, enraptured as by a detective thriller. For 100 years psychoanalysis has been plagued by the crucial problem of interpretation, strangely neglected by Freud, his disciples, and their critics. Rubovits-Seitz examines the question with wide-ranging erudition, clinical sensitivity, philosophical sophistication, and scrupulous intellectual honesty. It is an amazing scholarly achievement that will be the definitive treatise for years to come. <p>- Paul E. Meehl, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Regents Professor of Psychology, Emeritus<p> As our view of the world shifts ever further from the belief that truth is given, the time has come to take a fresh look at the problem of interpretation. We could find no better guide that Philip Rubovits-Seitz. In a scholarly, optimistic, and wide-ranging survey, he helps us see the underlying commonality that binds psychoanalysis to the other interpretive disciplines and to the unexplored field of commonsense

Author Information

Philip F. D. Rubovits-Seitz, M.D., is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, George Washington University Medical Center.  He was previously Director of Psychiatric Research, Indiana University; Visiting Professor of Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati; and Staff Member, The Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis.  He has received a number of national and other awards for research and teaching.

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions