Positivism and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

Commentary on “A Phenomenological Investigation into the Psychotherapist’s Experience of Processing Projective Identifications” by Mark Thorpe

Abstract

Through the lens of Mark Thorpe’s thought provoking research summary on projective identification, this commentary briefly explores the growing need for psychoanalytic, and psychoanalytically informed psychotherapy, to create for itself an evidence base for its efficacy. The commentary explores whether in the pursuit of improving its standing in the psychological “market place,” is psychoanalytic psychotherapy compromising some of its underlying theoretical and clinical principles?

Waitara

Mai i te karu arotahi o te whakaaro whakakārangirangi whakarāpopotonga rangahau mō te whakapūreo tuakiri a Mark Thorpe, ka rapua potohia ake e tēnei kōrero te hapa o te tipu ake ō te tātaringa hinengaro me te mātauranga tātari hinengaro, hai waihanga pū taunakihanga kia mau niho ai. E rapu haere ana te kōrero kia kite mēnā i a ia e whakatairangi ana i tōna tūranga i roto i te ‘ao hokohoko’, e whakaitihia ake ana ētahi o ana mātāpono ariā mātāpono haumanu matua?