Paradigms in occupational therapy. Previously published in Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy 1994; 1:...

Every field of human occupation teems with patterns, which may be called "paradigms". This article is concerned with paradigms in the field of occupational therapy. The term "paradigm", which has become quite popular, perhaps too popular since the publication of Kuhn's famous book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, has a complex semantic spectrum. Margaret Masterman has distinguished no less than twenty senses in Kuhn's writings. My use of the term, which has very little affinity with Kuhn's uses of it, will be defined in due course.