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"The media have a critical position in smooth politics in supplying the knowledge that folks use to evaluate applicants and their structures. via chosen insurance of ballot info, political ads and political debates, and the insurance of political applicants, campaigns, and concerns, media may perhaps impression public opinion." "The Psychology of Media and Politics discusses how this effect may possibly happen and Read more...
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He, however, viewed Kohut’s operational perspective as epistemologically incomplete because it addressed only the methodology that informs psychoanalytic observation and ignored the ontology that circumscribes the nature of distinctively psychoanalytic theories. In his analysis of the dream material, what Stepansky described as Kohut’s lack of concern with scientifically sound principles for ascribing validity (and invalidity) to clinical theories made it easy for him to slip scientifically and, perhaps, clinically.
We are determined to value and learn from such phenomena as we do in the consulting room. indb 37 5/16/07 7:07:28 AM 38 COMPARATIVE-INTEGRATIVE PSYCHOANALYSIS evolving ones. Seeking to comprehend what went awry in Kohut’s (or anyone’s) experimentation with new thought forms can help elucidate important features and vulnerabilities in our science and practice. Insight gleaned from such investigation will enable us to forge a stronger, more robust, valid, clinico-scientific enterprise. Erring is human; learning from such experience is divine.
Stepansky raised the crucial question: How does one know whether empathy is being employed scientifically in the analytic setting? Presumably one knows, he answered, when the analyst obtains data that in accordance with the analyst’s understanding of psychoanalytic theory, can be ordered into explanations and interpretations that are therapeutically efficacious. Stepansky therefore believed an adequate definition of the psychoanalytic research tradition must incorporate not only a methodology but also an ontology circumscribing the ordering principles, that is, the theories that fall within the research tradition.
