Psychotherapy As Praxis

Continuing his earlier unconventional critiques and proposals concerning the misapplication of science to psychotherapy, the author presents a radical approach based on psychoanalysis and Aristotle's unorthodox and virtually unknown conception of praxis. A detailed example of a

Polarities: Technology, Praxis, Psychotherapies

1

(6)

Notes

5

(2)

The Technotherapies

7

(10)

Modernity

Technotherapies

A Generic Model of Technological Activity

The Model Applied to Psychotherapy

The Role of Theory in the Technotherapies

Notes

15

(2)

Critiques of Technological Thinking

17

(20)

Problems Arising in the Exact Sciences

Problems Raised in General Psychology

Poor Science

The Pretense of Objectivity: Importing Values

Surreptitiously

The Premise of Universal Laws

Reification

Problems Raised in Psychotherapy

A Praxis-Based Critique

Notes

31

(6)

Praxis-Based Psychotherapy I: General Considerations

37

(14)

Aristotelian Levels of Knowledge

Praxis, Phronesis, the Phronimos

General Features of Praxis

Domains of Application

The Role of History and Experience: Character Validation

Translating Generalities into Clinical Specifics

Notes

47

(4)

Praxis-Based Psychotherapy II: Personal Views

51

(28)

History

Obstacles to the Exposition and Explication of Praxis

The Therapist's Character

The Acquisition of Phronesis

Efficacy of the Process in Psychoanalysis

Reflections on the History of the Training Analysis

Praxial Psychotherapy as a Deconstructive Process

Free Association: Mainstream Conceptions

Free Association as Central in a Praxis-Based Therapy

The Training Analysis, Again

The Role of Available Theory in Clinical Praxis

Further Considerations Concerning Training

Free Association in Therapists' General Training

Free Association's Complement: Analytic Neutrality

Notes

72

(7)

Bringing About Change

79

(18)

Technology's Homeostasis

Motives

Obscuring Strategies

Mechanisms of Inertia

Defensive Needs of Groups and Populations

A Strategy for Change?

The Microcosm/Macrocosm Problem

Stopping the Action

Sociocultural Phronesis, Phronimos, Praxis

The Danger

Generalizations of Clinical Praxis/Phronesis

Notes

92

(5)

References

97

(20)

Index

117

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