Narrative Explanation in Psychotherapy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7571225 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charles Guignon (University of Vermont, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 558-577 |
| Publication date | 1998-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002764298041004007 |
| OpenAlex | W2062956382 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 16 |
This article examines the field of psychotherapy as an interesting and illustrative example of human science inquiry. Three approaches to understanding human intentionality and action that have appeared in theories of psychotherapy over the years are distinguished. Naturalist approaches assume explanation involves describing underlying causes operating beneath the surface phenomena of thought and action. In recent years, difficulties this view encounters in doing justice to human agency have given rise to constructionist conceptions of psychotherapy. In this view, action is structured by narratives or stories understood as free creations that swing free of any facts and do not involve discovering any truth about a person's life or history. The author suggests that this approach involves a number of excesses and shortcomings and argues for a more moderate, narrativist viewpoint that draws on the ideas of ontological hermeneutics
Action (physics) · Agency (philosophy) · Epistemology · Field (mathematics) · Hermeneutics · Human science · Intentionality · Narrative · Naturalism · Psychotherapist · Sense of agency · Sociology · Strict constructionism · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
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Tropics of Discourse
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Human Agency and Language, Philosophical Papers
Fact and Method. Explanation, Confirmation and Reality in the Natural and the Social Sciences
Hermeneutics and Truth
The Question Of Proof In Freud's Psychoanalytic Writings
The Narrative Quality of Experience
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Narrative Time
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Action and Narration in Psychoanalysis
Fact and Method
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,61 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2020 (23) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |