Psychotherapy between science and philosophy

Authors

  • Thomas Kesselring

Abstract

Summary: Which room does philosophy occupy in the scientific house that psychotherapy science supports? Since when? And for how much longer? Does philosophy in psychotherapy science not rather play , as it generally does in psychology, the role of a troglodyte and poltergeist in a cellar vault digging a subversive tunnel into the adjoining cellar vault? That shakes the foundations, tests their soundness and wants to know “what holds this world together in its innermost part?” The premises on which science is constructed are like posts hammered into soft ground to support a building. Among those posts are (a) an image of man and (b) a view of the world, that is, a specific anthropology and ontology; (c) a concept of science which determines criteria for correct and false; and (d) a professional code of ethics that psychotherapy feels committed to. Keywords: Psychotherapy science, psychology, philosophical questions, scientific concept

Author Biography

Thomas Kesselring

PD. Dr. Thomas Kesselring, Universität Bern, Institut für Philosophie, und Professor convidado an der Universidade Pedagógica von Mosambik. Diverse Buchpublikationen: Entwicklung und Widerspruch (1981), Die Produktivität der Antinomie ( 1984), Jean Piaget (1988, 21999), Ethik der Entwicklungspolitik (2003), Handbuch Ethik für Pädagogen (2009, 22012), Ethik und Erziehung (2014).

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Published

2015-08-29

How to Cite

Kesselring, T. (2015). Psychotherapy between science and philosophy. Psychotherapie-Wissenschaft, 5(1), 51–60. Retrieved from https://psychotherapie-wissenschaft.info/article/view/296

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 1 (2015): Psychotherapeutic Science

Section

Special Issue

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