{"title":"Against the exclusion of psychoanalysis for the diversity of research and care methods: A call for thought","authors":"Rémy Potier, Alain Abelhauser","doi":"10.1002/ppi.1523","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ppi.1523","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42499,"journal":{"name":"Psychotherapy and Politics International","volume":"26 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/ppi.1523","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50911504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Ratner, David Pavón‐Cuéllar, Karla Montserrat Ríos‐Martínez
{"title":"The politics of realism and social constructionism in psychology","authors":"C. Ratner, David Pavón‐Cuéllar, Karla Montserrat Ríos‐Martínez","doi":"10.1002/ppi.1522","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ppi.1522","url":null,"abstract":"Resumen. Se ofrece una discusión acerca de las implicaciones políticas del realismo y del socio-construccionismo en psicología. Se comienza resumiendo el debate que Kenneth Gergen y Carl Ratner sostuvieron entre 2002 y 2005 sobre el positivismo, el construccionismo social y las implicaciones políticas de las teorías psicológicas. Luego se presenta la discusión entre Carl Ratner y David Pavón-Cuéllar, llevada a cabo en 2015 en Morelia, Michoacán, México. Esta discusión aborda temas como las contradicciones entre el realismo y el socio-construccionismo, la libertad del sujeto, el idealismo y el positivismo, la objetividad científica, las afirmaciones de verdad y sus resultados prácticos en las teorías psicológicas, la conexión entre ciencia y política, las posturas de Gergen respecto a otras teorías, la fragmentación social como consecuencia del construccionismo social, la tecnocracia, el cultismo, el solipsismo, la neutralidad de la ciencia y su rol en el régimen nazi, la religión y las psicologías indígenas. Abstract. This item presents a controversial discussion on the political implications of realist and social constructionist psycholo-gies. After summarising a 2002–2005 debate between Kenneth Gergen and Carl Ratner on issues such as positivism, social constructionism and the political implications of psychological theo-ries, it moves on to reproduce a discussion between Carl Ratner and David Pavón-Cuéllar that took place in Morelia, Mexico in 2015. This discussion focuses on the contradiction between realism and social constructionism, and successively addresses subjective freedom, idealism and positivism, scientific objectivity, the truth claims and practical outcomes of psychological theories, the con-nection between science and politics, Gergen's attitudes toward other theories, social fragmentation as a consequence of social constructionism, technocracy, cultism, solipsism, the neutrality of science and its role in the Nazi regime, and indigenous psy-chologies.","PeriodicalId":42499,"journal":{"name":"Psychotherapy and Politics International","volume":"125 18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/ppi.1522","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50911425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}