Telling stories instead of enumerating facts

Authors

  • Peter Müller-Locher

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30820/8242.09

Keywords:

Reliability, Managing Relationships, Mathematics, Literature, Politics

Abstract

The author demonstrates how the efforts towards greater reliability in diagnostic interviews run the risk of sacrificing their characteristically unstructured narrative in favour of a standardized exploration of the patient, thus, following the zeitgeist of enumerating. An example of this is the experience as a training coordinator of the evaluater community in a research study. The focus here is on the method of Operationalized Psychodynamic Diagnosis (OPD-2), that aimed to achieve a high degree of estimation consistency between the different diagnosticians.

Author Biography

Peter Müller-Locher

Peter Müller-Locher, Dr. phil., Msc in Organisationsentwicklung, ist niedergelassener psychologischer Psychotherapeut (ASP), Daseinsanalytiker, Supervisor und Gruppenanalytiker. Er ist Vorsitzender der Kommission für Qualitätssicherung der Schweizer Charta für Psychotherapie und Teilnehmer an der Praxisstudie ambulante Psychotherapie (PAP-S) in verschiedenen Chargen.

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Published

2018-04-18

How to Cite

Müller-Locher, P. (2018). Telling stories instead of enumerating facts. Psychotherapie-Wissenschaft, 8(1), 47–52. https://doi.org/10.30820/8242.09

Issue

No. 1 (2018): Politik der Diagnose

Section

Titelthema: Politik der Diagnose

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