What After Pluralism? Ulysses Still on the Road

Bernardi, Ricardo

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“…These contracts are a means to minimise the devastating consequences of recurrent psychosis, as patients consent to being "tied to the ship's mast" so that they continue to be treated, despite the risk of objections based on what could be seen as unjustifiable paternalism. Even the professional career of psychoanalysts has been examined autobiographically in terms of "Ulysses' road" (Bernardi 2005).…”

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The classical myth of Ulysses versus Palamedes: an early metaphor for the qualitative/quantitative debate?

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Fernández-Guerrero

2010

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The classical myth of Ulysses versus Palamedes: an early metaphor for the qualitative/quantitative debate?

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2010

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“…However, thanks to the pluralism of modern psychoanalysis (Bernardi 2005;Jimenez 2008;Wallerstein 1992), there is less clarity than there once was regarding the kinds of truths that psychoanalysis ought to be uncovering, and perhaps a further consequence of psychoanalytic pluralism is increasing skepticism about whether what is at stake is or should be the uncovering of truth at all. For example, Renik (1998) argued that:…”

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When Is Truth Relevant?

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Fonagy

2016

The Psychoanalytic Quarterly

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The authors argue that the experience of knowing and having the truth about oneself known in the context of therapy is not an end in itself; rather, it is important because the trust engendered by this experience (epistemic trust or trust in new knowledge) opens one up to learning about one's social world and finding better ways to live in it. The authors consider the consequences of a lack of epistemic trust in terms of psychopathology.

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“…Even so, it is questionable to describe this situation in terms of pluralism, since what seems to exist is mere plurality or worse yet, theoretical and practical fragmentation, since at this time we have no methodology for a systematic comparison of diverse theories and technical approaches. Ricardo Bernardi (2005) wonders what will happen after this pluralism if the necessary conditions are not created for the diversity we observe to become a factor of progress rather than destruction for psychoanalysis. His investigations (Bernardi, 2002, 2003) on the way psychoanalysts argue in controversies leave us with a feeling of pessimism about our ability to find a common ground.…”

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Grasping psychoanalysts’ practice in its own merits

Jiménez¹

2009

The International Journal of Psychoanalysis

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The central objective of this presentation is to reflect on the obstacles involved in the task proposed by the Chicago Congress, which is to explore convergences and divergences in psychoanalytic practice. The author discusses two major obstacles. First, the epistemological and methodological problems in relation to the construction of theory in psychoanalysis and especially the inaccessibility, in any reliable way, of what psychoanalysts really do in the intimacy of their practice. He proposes to separate, at least in part, theory from practice in psychoanalysis, in an attempt to grasp psychoanalysts' practice in its own merits. He then outlines a phenomenology of the practice of psychoanalysis, which reveals that, in their work with patients, analysts are guided more by practical reasons than theoretical reasons; that is, their interventions are predictions rather than explanations. Since these practical reasons need to be validated constantly in the analytic relationship based on their effects, he discusses the subject of validation in the clinical context of the core theory of therapeutic change in psychoanalysis, that is, the conditions required for clinical practice to satisfy the thesis of an inseparable union between gaining knowledge and cure. He ends by challenging the core of the psychoanalytic theory of change, arguing that it neither does justice to the practice of psychoanalysts nor to contemporary knowledge of processes and mechanisms of therapeutic change. Finally, he proposes that we detach practice from theory, in order to study the former in its own merits, utilising a plurality of methods ranging from systematic investigation to the recent methodology of the Working Party.

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What After Pluralism? Ulysses Still on the Road

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The classical myth of Ulysses versus Palamedes: an early metaphor for the qualitative/quantitative debate?

The classical myth of Ulysses versus Palamedes: an early metaphor for the qualitative/quantitative debate?

When Is Truth Relevant?

Grasping psychoanalysts’ practice in its own merits

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