An unsubstantiated psychotherapy? Hermeneutics, discourse and the end of certainty.
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https://doi.org/10.33898/rdp.v10i37.773Keywords:
contingency, narrative, postfoundationalism, research, therapyAbstract
Over the last decade the therapeutic industry has begun to question the foundations for its own knowledge claims. Unable to retreat into logic-empiricism and naïve realism because of its own internal critique of these philosophical positions, it has sought solace in hermenutics and postfoundationalist epistemology. Through an examination of debates within psychotherapy process research, it is possible to chart the development of this linguistic turn. The end of the search for teherapeutic certainities has certain repercussions which have, hitherto, been neglected by theorists and clinicians, whose desire to escape some of the constraints of scientism sits uneasily alongside an unshakeable commitement to therapeutic practices wich are essentially normative.
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