Epistemological value of the therapeutic interview.
Journal title EPISTEMOLOGIA
Author/s Alfio Allò
Publishing Year 2015 Issue 2014/2
Language Italian Pages 14 P. 289-302 File size 58 KB
DOI 10.3280/EPIS2014-002008
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The purpose of this paper is to give a critique of the therapeutic interview highlighting its poor epistemological relevance, whatever methodology is adopted by the practitioners. The examination of the implicit variables, which characterise the system ‘method-therapist-patient’, will show that the system itself cannot be subjected to an adequate control. In practice, unknown factors influence the effectiveness and results of any given psychotherapy, and the arbitrary interpretations of the therapists, who act subjectively within the theory (or theories) of reference, lead inevitably to an unsatisfactory level of ‘scientific objectivity’. The present paper will outline the essential premises for a radical change in the theoretical and methodological setting which guides psychotherapy today.
Keywords: Therapeutic method, epistemic and methodological relevance, causality, interpretation, system method-therapeut-patient, objectivity.
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Alfio Allò, Valore epistemologico del colloquio terapeutico in "EPISTEMOLOGIA" 2/2014, pp 289-302, DOI: 10.3280/EPIS2014-002008