Useful Untruths: A Plea for the Necessity of Pluralism in Child Analysis

IF 0.4 4区心理学 Q4 PSYCHIATRY

Psychoanalytic Study of the Child Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI:10.1080/00797308.2020.1859282

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Abstract

ABSTRACT The late nineteenth century philosopher Hans Vaihinger and the preeminent contemporary philosopher, Kwame Anthony Appiah contend that in order to see a more complete picture of the world, we need a plurality of pictures with which to view it, not just one. This truth comes with epistemological burdens and with the inconvenient fact that the human mind is unable to juggle more than one picture or theory simultaneously. Thus, psychoanalytic clinicians tend to select one theory as a guide when treating patients. In this paper, I will offer ways to think about this conundrum as it appears in the child psychoanalytic setting and whether it is possible to shift from one’s usual theoretical point of view to include alternate theoretical perspectives – and thus, to gain a more complete “truth”, as Vaihinger and Appiah suggest we should aspire to – as the clinical situation allows.

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有用的谎言:对儿童分析多元化必要性的辩护

摘要19世纪晚期哲学家Hans Vaihinger和当代杰出哲学家Kwame Anthony Appiah认为，为了看到一幅更完整的世界图景，我们需要多幅画面，而不仅仅是一幅。这个真理伴随着认识论的负担和一个不方便的事实，即人类的头脑无法同时处理多个画面或理论。因此，精神分析临床医生在治疗患者时倾向于选择一种理论作为指导。在这篇论文中，我将提供一些方法来思考这个难题，因为它出现在儿童精神分析的环境中，以及是否有可能从一个人通常的理论观点转变为包括替代的理论视角——从而获得一个更完整的“真相”，正如Vaihinger和Appiah所建议的那样——在临床情况允许的情况下。

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Psychoanalytic Study of the Child PSYCHOLOGY, PSYCHOANALYSIS-

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0.90

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20.00%

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期刊介绍： The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child is recognized as a preeminent source of contemporary psychoanalytic thought. Published annually, it focuses on presenting carefully selected and edited representative articles featuring ongoing analytic research as well as clinical and theoretical contributions for use in the treatment of adults and children. Initiated in 1945, under the early leadership of Anna Freud, Kurt and Ruth Eissler, Marianne and Ernst Kris, this series of volumes soon established itself as a leading reference source of study. To look at its contributors is to be confronted with the names of a stellar list of creative, scholarly pioneers who willed a rich heritage of information about the development and disorders of children and their influence on the treatment of adults as well as children. An innovative section, The Child Analyst at Work, periodically provides a forum for dialogue and discussion of clinical process from multiple viewpoints.