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What can the clinician trust--research? Theory? Clinical knowledge?: introduction to a serious problem and preview of
1School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada K1N 6N5. amahrer@uottawa.ca
American Journal of Psychotherapy
|October 20, 2001
Abstract:
This article addresses a serious problem faced by the field of psychotherapy in relying upon and trusting research, theory, clinical knowledge, or other sources as real, hard, and objective. The serious underlying problem is that the field lives and works in an aerie-faerie world composed of ethereal, illusory, false "psychorealities." Although grand solutions have been introduced, none has succeeded in solving the problem. The introduction concludes with a preview of some current solutions by some of the leading proponents dealing with the problem of what the clinician can trust.