{"title":"Crediting or blaming theories or auxiliary assumptions for empirical victories or defeats","authors":"David Trafimow, Tom St Quinton, Mallory Weber","doi":"10.1177/09593543241253548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543241253548","url":null,"abstract":"There is no direct way for researchers to test theories. One reason is that theories contain nonobservational terms that refer to unobservable entities. Consequently, researchers add auxiliary assumptions to aid in traversing the distance between theories and empirical hypotheses. The results may confirm the empirical hypothesis, an empirical victory, or the results may disconfirm the empirical hypothesis, an empirical defeat. Either way, it is not clear whether to make an attribution to the theory, the auxiliary assumptions, or both. The present goal is to review techniques researchers have employed, or could employ, that aid in assessing the weight of the evidence with respect to crediting or blaming theories or auxiliary assumptions for empirical victories or defeats.","PeriodicalId":47640,"journal":{"name":"Theory & Psychology","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141194184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Retiring Popper: Critical realism, falsificationism, and the crisis of replication","authors":"Robert Archer","doi":"10.1177/09593543241250079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543241250079","url":null,"abstract":"The recent so-called crisis of replication continues to dominate psychology’s methodological landscape. It is argued here that the apparent renaissance of Popperian thinking that characterises some of the key responses to the crisis of replication is fundamentally flawed. In essence, there is a serious lack of any sustained and rigorous treatment of ontology that underpins much of the current debate about replication and Popper’s falsificationist approach. The overriding problem is that the replication debate reflects the methodologist tendency for mainstream psychologists to avoid or gloss over crucial ontological questions. In contradistinction, this article (a) underscores the primacy of ontology; (b) delineates and applies a critical realist stratified ontology to psychology; (c) utilises the latter as a springboard from which to argue for Popper’s methodological “retirement”; and (d) revindicates the indispensability of context and the subtlety of psychological phenomena in arguing for the intrinsic limits of replication and experimentalism in general.","PeriodicalId":47640,"journal":{"name":"Theory & Psychology","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141169237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Looking for places to be alone: Lived space in social anxiety disorder","authors":"Martin Vestergaard Kristiansen","doi":"10.1177/09593543241253510","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543241253510","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, I elucidate how lived space is transformed in social anxiety disorder. The cognitive–behavioral framework that dominates the field conceptualizes the disorder as an intrapsychic dysfunction and sidelines concrete experience. The omnipresent sense of threat as it expresses itself “out there” in the patient’s experiential world thus remains unexplored. Looking to first-person descriptions of social anxiety, I argue that the felt presence of the Other constantly threatens the patient’s sense of autonomy and ownership of the places they inhabit. They experience others violating the boundaries of their intimate spaces and banishing them from public spaces. These experiences point to an altered mode of inhabiting space I term intersubjective overdetermination. The patient is condemned to live in the space of the Other. I compare this conceptualization to the commonplace cognitive–behavioral account. I end by discussing the treatment implications of this account of socially anxious lived space.","PeriodicalId":47640,"journal":{"name":"Theory & Psychology","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141169310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tore Dag Bøe, Bård Bertelsen, Rolf Sundet, Odd Kenneth Hillesund, Per Arne Lidbom
{"title":"Return to reality: What does the world ask of us?","authors":"Tore Dag Bøe, Bård Bertelsen, Rolf Sundet, Odd Kenneth Hillesund, Per Arne Lidbom","doi":"10.1177/09593543241245071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543241245071","url":null,"abstract":"This article introduces the project Return to Reality: What Does the World Ask of Us? This project evolved from a concern that frameworks in mental health operate with knowledge as their primary mode in such a way that reality is lost from sight. This is not primarily an epistemological problem, but an ethical and existential one: ethical because a knowledge-mediated relation to the real can make us blind to the ethical imperatives found in encounters with reality; existential because to be a subject is to respond to what is real. The works of Gert Biesta are a key inspiration. We use Levinas’s, Lingis’s, and Arendt’s ideas to elaborate these concerns. A return to reality is needed; a shift from knowledge-based to reality-sensitive approaches. We relate these ideas to the Open Dialogue approach, with the key imperative of responding to the presence of those present, and to Reflecting team practices, which Tom Andersen describes as being guided by people’s bodily responses.","PeriodicalId":47640,"journal":{"name":"Theory & Psychology","volume":"74 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140828580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The multiple turns in the psychology of emotion","authors":"Verna Alcalde-González","doi":"10.1177/09593543241241756","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543241241756","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47640,"journal":{"name":"Theory & Psychology","volume":"75 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140324630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"When the father is more than just a signifier: Lacan’s later work on the father-function in psychosis","authors":"Stijn Vanheule","doi":"10.1177/09593543241240002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543241240002","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines central ideas from Jacques Lacan’s later psychoanalytic theory on psychosis. In the 1950s, Lacan formulated a structural model of psychosis, asserting that the central element of symbolically organized mental life, the Name-of-the-Father, is missing, leading to a latent vulnerability for psychotic episodes. In the 1970s, Lacan made significant changes to this model by introducing two new concepts: Father-of-the-Name and père-version. These concepts are plays on the original Name-of-the-Father concept and refer to two other aspects of the father function: the creative act of naming and embracing modes of life, respectively. Furthermore, in the 1970s, Lacan suggested that creating coherence in mental life does not necessarily require an exemplar of a paternal identification figure. Drawing from the case of the modernist writer James Joyce, he argued that singular inventions can just as effectively establish stability. This argument is elaborated upon by introducing the concepts of “sinthome” and “escabeau.”","PeriodicalId":47640,"journal":{"name":"Theory & Psychology","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140325953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David Farrokh, Joseph A. Stone, Keith Davids, Ben W. Strafford, James L. Rumbold
{"title":"Why isn’t flow flowing? Metatheoretical issues in explanations of flow","authors":"David Farrokh, Joseph A. Stone, Keith Davids, Ben W. Strafford, James L. Rumbold","doi":"10.1177/09593543241237492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543241237492","url":null,"abstract":"A flow state describes intrinsically rewarding experiences of complete absorption in a task. While descriptive accounts of flow have gained prominence in “popular” psychology, scientific research has reached a crisis point due to perceived limitations of current theoretical explanations for the experience. Here, we evaluate key metatheoretical frameworks underpinning previous explanations of flow and situate the need for reconsidering the ontological status of flow experiences and the causal entailments that might be needed to explain them. We consider the possibility that the subject–object dualism implied, and the organismic asymmetry apparent in prevalent metatheoretical frameworks, may create intractable problems for explanations of flow. Finally, the suitability of the ecological metatheory and eco-physical variables for explaining flow experiences is discussed.","PeriodicalId":47640,"journal":{"name":"Theory & Psychology","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140205013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why does the pathologization of grief cause such a stir? A comment on Bergsmark and Ramsing","authors":"S. Brinkmann","doi":"10.1177/09593543231184889","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543231184889","url":null,"abstract":"After years of debate, a new diagnosis called prolonged grief disorder (PGD) was finally included in the 11th edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11; World Health Organization). The pathologization of grief has been controversial and caused quite a stir among researchers, practitioners, and the general public. Recently, Bergsmark and Ramsing (2023) have addressed some considerations that they believe are lost in the ensuing debate, and they call for a positive response to the diagnosis among psychologists. In this reply, I argue that we have good reasons to maintain a critical stance both toward the specific grief diagnosis and toward the general pathologization of human suffering.","PeriodicalId":47640,"journal":{"name":"Theory & Psychology","volume":"152 11 1","pages":"873 - 878"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139213169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pathologizing the pathological and the place for grief: Reply to Brinkmann","authors":"Lars Petter Sødal Bergsmark, Frida Ramsing","doi":"10.1177/09593543231200041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543231200041","url":null,"abstract":"In this response, Lars Petter Sødal Bergsmark and Frida Ramsing address the arguments and criticism made by Svend Brinkmann (2023) concerning their carefully optimistic presentation of the psychiatrization of pathological grief in the article “Which Considerations Are Lost When Debating the Prolonged Grief Disorder Diagnosis?” (Bergsmark & Ramsing, 2023). Overall, they argue that Brinkmann (2023) presents intriguing perspectives on this controversial topic, but he does not capture the complex case of prolonged grief disorder adequately, partly because of faulty premises in his argument. Contrary to the perspective put forth by Brinkmann, the authors remark on the possibilities and promises of integrating critical cultural psychology with the developments in psychiatric nosology, and in conclusion provide three standpoints for the future of psychiatry.","PeriodicalId":47640,"journal":{"name":"Theory & Psychology","volume":"76 1","pages":"879 - 885"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139212637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}