Intervento: Psicoterapia e ricerca "scientifica"

2009 ◽  
pp. 77-94
Author(s):  
Paolo Migone
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Chaos Theory ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Psychotherapy Research ◽  
Clinical Material ◽  
History Of Psychotherapy ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship

- Some problems of the relationship between psychotherapy and scientific research are examined. The following aspects are discussed: the theory of demarcation between science and non-science, the problem of replicability, "hard" and "soft" sciences, complexity and chaos theory, the levels of probability and indeterminacy, the inductive-deductive circle, abduction, etc. Clinical material is presented in order to exemplify the issues under discussion. Some of the problems met by empirical research in psychotherapy (for example the manualization of psychotherapy techniques) are described, and the phases of the history of psychotherapy research movement are summarized. (This intervention is a discussion of the paper by the physicist Ferdinando Bersani "Replicability in science: Myth or reality?". Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane, 2009, XLIII, 1: 59-76). [KEY WORDS: science, psychotherapy research, epistemology, replicability, psychoanalytic research]

Computers and infrared spectroscopy: evolution and revolution

1991 ◽  
Vol 69 (11) ◽  
pp. 1781-1785 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. Moffatt ◽  
J. K. Kauppinen ◽  
H. H. Mantsch
Keyword(s):  
Fourier Transform ◽  
Infrared Spectroscopy ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Maximum Entropy ◽  
Input Data ◽  
Maximum Entropy Method ◽  
Entropy Method ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Fourier Transform ◽  
The Relationship

A brief history of the relationship between computer and infrared spectroscopist is given with emphasis on the use of the Fourier transform. Subsequently, an algorithm is developed that may be used to devise an objective Fourier self-deconvolution procedure which depends only on the input data and is not subject to the biases that are often introduced in such subjective techniques. Key words: deconvolution, Fourier transform, maximum entropy method.

Politica della psicoanalisi, mistica del ruolo e clinica della colleganza

2009 ◽  
pp. 313-342
Author(s):  
Giorgio Meneguz
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
Clinical Aspects ◽  
Training Process ◽  
History Of Psychoanalysis ◽  
Psychoanalytic Training ◽  
History Of ◽  
Conspiracy Of Silence ◽  
Nodal Problem ◽  
The Relationship

- This article discusses some aspects of the nodal problem of the intertwining of psychoanalytic training and clinical aspects of the relationship among colleagues, namely: What lessons can we learn from the history of psychoanalysis about the distortions of the relationships within training process and its fallout on how an analyst will behave with his/her colleagues? "Clinical aspects of the relationship among colleagues" refer to some form of impropriety or markedly pathological behaviors that appear both among groups (e.g., phenomena such as sectarianism and conflict), and within the affiliation group (e.g., jealousy and Oedipal rivalry, dominance and submission, conspiracy of silence and the related lack of loyalty, behaviors above or outside the rules, suspiciousness, devaluation of personal relationships and friendships or, worse, through publications, and so on).KEY WORDS: psychoanalytic training, psychoanalytic institutions, transmission/filiations, clinical aspects of the relationship among colleagues, history of psychoanalysis

What about ethics? Developing qualitative research in confinement settings

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 461-479 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sílvia Gomes ◽  
Vera Duarte
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Relational Dynamics ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Procedural Ethics ◽  
The Relationship

The main purpose of this article is to discuss some ethical-methodological issues associated with scientific research in confinement settings, particularly those that result from the relationship with the confined individual in the framework of qualitative research. Basing the reflection on empirical research developed by both authors in Portuguese confinement settings – prisons and youth educational centres – we examine the significant challenges and dilemmas this type of research entails, exploring the interface between procedural ethics and ethics in practice at three points in the analytical process: before, during and after data collection. This article illustrates the interplay between formal and informal procedures, and between the initial distancing and strangeness when making contact with confinement settings and their social actors and the institutional and relational dynamics that become ingrained in our everyday practice. Our goal is to give visibility to these institutional and relational dynamics and to reflect on the challenges experienced by those who enter confinement settings to do research, in an effort to make the research process more transparent and at the same time more reflexive. We end our reflection advocating more ethically committed and critical scientific research.

Client, Therapist, and Treatment Variables

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Satoko Kimpara ◽  
Hannah Holt ◽  
Julianne Alsante ◽  
Larry E. Beutler
Keyword(s):  
Psychotherapy Research ◽  
Therapeutic Change ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Randomized Controlled ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of Psychotherapy ◽  
History Of ◽  
Changing Practices ◽  
Health Field

Consideration of the client–therapist match as a contributor, predictor, and optimizer of therapeutic change is not new in the behavioral health field. Indeed, it has evolved from two interactive and co-acting histories: (a) changing practices in psychotherapy research and (b) corresponding changes in the way that clinicians have viewed the role of theory in their practices. In the past three and a half decades, research emphasis has changed to increasingly reflect the roles played by client diagnoses, brands of interventions, and the theories that underlie their use. This chapter reviews the history of psychotherapy research and randomized controlled trials (RCTs). It then describes a contemporary view of RCT design that attempts to incorporate contemporary research developments that are bringing together research and practice.

Un dialogo sulla differenza tra psicoanalisi e psicoterapia psicoanalitica

2009 ◽  
pp. 215-234
Author(s):  
Otto F. Kernberg ◽  
André Green ◽  
Paolo Migone
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy ◽  
Dream Work ◽  
Real Difference ◽  
Supportive Psychotherapy ◽  
Original Idea ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Ego Psychology

- Paolo Migone discusses with Otto F. Kernberg and André Green on the difference between psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Migone, in agreement with Merton M. Gill's conception of 1984, argues that there is not a real difference, but a continuum of techniques differentiated according to specific clinical situations and patients' defensive structures, following the implications of ego psychology that were clear already in the 1940s and 1950s. Kernberg partly agrees, but he emphasizes the need of differentiating three psychoanalytically framed techniques (psychoanalysis proper, psychoanalytic [or expressive] psychotherapy, and supportive psychotherapy) mostly in order to perform empirical research on their efficacy. Green discusses in depth this problem within the context of the history of Freud's theory of technique, and, among other things, shows how the original idea of Freud's technique (couch, free associations, etc.) was derived from his model of dream work.KEY WORDS: difference between psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, expressive psychotherapy, supportive psychotherapy, Merton M. Gill, dream model

Asking the Right Question

1994 ◽  
Vol 19 (03) ◽  
pp. 605-608
Author(s):  
Frank Munger
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Law And Society ◽  
Legal Rules ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Relationship

Marianne Constable's essay, “Genealogy and Jurisprudence,” brings the intellectual history of the law and society field within the framework of Nietzsche's six-stage history of metaphysics. Reorganized within that framework, the work of particular law and society scholars is seen to represent stages of thought about the relationship between the world of appearances described in empirical research and the possibilities for human action. Successive movements among law and society scholars pass, like Nietzsche's history of metaphysics, through stages of “error” (positivism, empiricism, critical legal studies, interpretive studies, constitutive theory), moving closer to complete acceptance of the view that action need not follow either legal rules or empirically described patterns and, thus, can be free.

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