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Brett H Clarke1

  • 1Co-Director and a faculty member of the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute and an adult psychoanalyst and child psychotherapist in private practice in Cincinnati, Ohio.

The Psychoanalytic Quarterly
|August 18, 2017
PubMed

Keywords:
EpistemologyPaul Ricoeurhermeneutic phenomenologyhermeneuticsirreducible subjectivityobjectivityphenomenologypsychoanalysis and sciencescientismsubjectivitysystematic empirical research

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