For a scientific psychotherapy

Authors

  • Nicolas Duruz

Abstract

Does psychotherapy have a right to call itself a science, now that it seems to be so split upI In the present article the author proposes a number of criteria that should possibly be required for a psychotherapeutic model to be considered scientific. The model should have the ability to operate as a critical method and, more basically, to formulate theoretical proposals relative to the reality of psychotherapy; it should also enunciate specific rules concerning their validation. These rules need not necessarily be similar to those of theoretico-experimental methods and may vary from one model to the next. In this connection, the author stresses the need to reflect the ideas of “belief” and of “pre-assumption” that always influence the scientific construction of a psychotherapeutic model and its method of validation.

Keywords:
Epistemology, compared psychotherapy, scientific validation.

Author Biography

Nicolas Duruz

Dr. Nicolas Duruz, professeur de psychologie aux Universités de Lausanne et Fribourg, est responsable de la formation postgrade au Centre d’Etude de la Famille (Département Universitaire de Psychiatrie Adulte), à Prilly/ Lausanne. a une double formation de psychothérapeute: psychanalytique et systémique. Des études de philosophie, un séjour prolongé aux USA et un engagement dans la politique professionnelle, l’ont amené à un domaine particulier de recherche: les enjeux cliniques de la psychothérapie, interrogés d’un point de vue socio-anthropologique et épistémologique.

Correspondance: Prof. Nicolas Duruz, Institut de Psychologie, Université de Lausanne, BFSH 2, Dorigny, CH-1015 Lausanne 

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Published

1996-07-01

How to Cite

Duruz, N. (1996). For a scientific psychotherapy. Psychotherapie-Wissenschaft, 4(3), 158–162. Retrieved from https://psychotherapie-wissenschaft.info/article/view/646

Issue

No. 3 (1996): Psychotherapie Forum 4/3 (veröffentlicht bei Springer Wien New York)

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Original Work

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