Destructive Idealization: A Threat to Our Times

Molnos, Angela

doi:10.1177/0533316491242005

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“…In this self [18]. Destructive idealization may lead to a split in the study we assume that each complex event (GAF rating of the patient leading to frightening or painful here-andnow patient's level of functioning according to the personal or feelings and an idealization of the future or some other time empathic view of either the patient or therapist) stands alone and place [19]. in a state space fully dimensionalized (and representable Devaluation by the patient of the diagnostician (or using the fuzzy hypercube) by the variables examined and therapist) in the clinical setting between the patient and the can be precisely compared with any other event or group of diagnostician [20].…”

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Fuzzy Measurements, Consensual and Empathic Validation of the Active Observations of Multiple Observers of the Same Psychotherapeutic Event

Sripada¹,

Jobe²

2006

NAFIPS 2006 - 2006 Annual Meeting of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society

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Fuzzy Measurements, Consensual and Empathic Validation of the Active Observations of Multiple Observers of the Same Psychotherapeutic Event

Sripada¹,

Jobe²

2006

NAFIPS 2006 - 2006 Annual Meeting of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society

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From Fuzzy Logic Toward Plurimonism: The Science of Active and Empathic Observation

Sripada

Jobe

Helgason

2005

IEEE Trans. Syst., Man, Cybern. B

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Plurimonism is a new philosophy and method of science. It holds that the revolution in computer science and artificial intelligence has reached the point that all the sciences in general can now account for the complex relations of an irreducible plurality of unique observers engaged in describing the same event. Plurimonism seeks to describe the conscious and unconscious relations of the scientific observer during the act of observation of a given event while preserving the historical uniqueness and indivisible identity of each such observer. Using the framework of plurimonism, we mathematically formulate the problem of empathy. This self-reflective mathematical model entails four components of the empathic process involving two observers. They are: 1) the self; 2) the self's-other; 3) the other; and 4) the other's-self. It measures the degree of accuracy of the therapist-observer's empathy, as well as conscious and unconscious processes involved in the patient-observer's idealization and the therapist-observer's confidence in clinical psychotherapy. Ratings are obtained from both patient and therapist from four different points of view. The plural views of the patient's global assessment of functioning (GAF) are from: 1) the therapist's view (TGAF); 2) the patient's view (PGAF); 3) the therapist empathic view (TEGAF), which represents the therapist's estimate of PGAF; and 4) the patient's empathic estimate of the TGAF. The GAF scale is the standard dimensional 100-point-scale measure used in psychiatry for recording a patient's functioning. The patient's estimate of the therapist's degree of accuracy as well as the therapist's confidence in his or her empathic accuracy is also represented. Three formulae are presented that describe the degree of the therapist's empathic accuracy, the patient's over-idealization/under-idealization, and the therapist's over-confidence/under-confidence. The concept of empathy is here restricted to mean the degree to which one observer can take the point of view of another observer when both are observing the same thing.

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Destructive Idealization: A Threat to Our Times

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Fuzzy Measurements, Consensual and Empathic Validation of the Active Observations of Multiple Observers of the Same Psychotherapeutic Event

Fuzzy Measurements, Consensual and Empathic Validation of the Active Observations of Multiple Observers of the Same Psychotherapeutic Event

From Fuzzy Logic Toward Plurimonism: The Science of Active and Empathic Observation

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