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The ‘therapeutic relationship:’ Emergence, eclipse, and transformations of a social technologyHistoria, Ciencias, Saude -- Manguinhos 29 (suppl. 1): 123-142. 2022.
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‘Heroin mothers,’ ‘methadone babies,’ and the medical controversy over methadone maintenance treatment in the early 1970sBulletin of the History of Medicine 97 (1): 127-156. 2023.
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33The Normative Turn in Recent Literature on PsychotherapyPhilosophical Psychology 1. 2023.The last few years have seen a marked increase of interest in the ethics of psychotherapy. As the field of mental health has recently taken on a new level of prominence, renewed commitment to the ethical analysis of psychiatric and psychological treatment is clearly required. In this review essay, we survey recent work on psychotherapy ethics, taking a critical yet generally sympathetic view of the new literature. There are important considerations that remain neglected or overlooked entirely, i…Read more
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Preparing for the unthinkable? The prevention of posttraumatic stress disorder and the limits of positive psychologyIn Kelso Cratsley & Jennifer Radden (eds.), Mental Health as Public Health: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Ethics of Prevention, Elsevier. 2019.
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Von, aus oder in der Auseinandersetzung mit der Geschichte Lernen? Zum Verhältnis von Psychologiegeschichte und ProfessionsethikIn Andreas Maercker & Jens Gieseke (eds.), Psychologie als Instrument der SED-Diktatur. Theorien, Praktiken, Akteure, Opfer. pp. 221-245. 2021.
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Between Social Criticism and Epistemological Critique: Critical Theory and the Normalization of TraumaIn Languages of Trauma. History, Memory, and Media;, University of Toronto Press. pp. 213-238. 2021.
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21‘Cruel to be kind?’ Professionalization, politics and the image of the abstinent psychoanalyst, c. 1940–80History of the Human Sciences 30 (2): 88-106. 2017.This article investigates the changing justifications of one of the hallmarks of orthodox psychoanalytic practice, the neutral and abstinent stance of the psychoanalyst, during the middle decades of the 20th century. To call attention to the shifting rationales behind a supposedly cold, detached style of treatment still today associated with psychoanalysis, explanations of the clinical utility of neutrality and abstinence by ‘classical’ psychoanalysts in the United States are contrasted with how…Read more
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14Was tun mit Metaphern? Überlegungen zur Bedeutung von Metaphern und Metapherntheorie für die Wissenschaftsgeschichte am Beispiel medizinischer SchockmetaphorikBerichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 38 (4): 321-342. 2015.
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9The uses of trauma in experiment: Traumatic stress and the history of experimental neurosis, c. 1925–1975Science in Context 32 (3): 327-351. 2019.ArgumentThe article retraces the shifting conceptualizations of psychological trauma in experimental psychopathological research in the middle decades of the twentieth century in the United States. Among researchers studying so-called experimental neuroses in animal laboratories, trauma was an often-invoked category used to denote the clash of conflicting forces believed to lead to neurotic suffering. Experimental psychologists, however, soon grew skeptical of the traumatogenic model and ultimat…Read more
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Das Subjekt der Psychotherapie zwischen Naturalisierung und Verklärung: Ein symmetrisch-anthropologischer Blick auf den Leib-Seele-Dualismus in der PsychiatrieInternationale Zeitschrift Für Philosophie Und Psychosomatik 1. 2011.Ausgehend von den jüngeren Erfolgen bei der psychopharmakologischen Behandlung psychischer Störungen wird der wissenschaftstheoretische Status psychotherapeutischer Verfahren erörtert. Es wird gezeigt, dass die dichotome Aufspaltung zwischen am Körper ansetzenden Interventionen auf der einen Seite und psycho- und sozial-therapeutischen Verfahren auf der anderen eine theoretische Fiktion ist, die vor dem Hintergrund der Entstehungsgeschichte der modernen Psychotherapie begriffen und hinterfragt w…Read more
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47The History and Ethics of the Therapeutic RelationshipIn Trachsel Manuel, Şerife Tekin, Nikola Biller-Adorno, Jens Gaab & John Sadler (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Psychotherapy Ethics, Oxford University Press. pp. 65-84. 2021.This chapter reviews past and present debates about the therapeutic relationship in order to draw out the ethical implications of relational practices in psychotherapy. The therapeutic relationship has been understood differently across psychotherapeutic approaches, with each tradition responding to the attendant ethical challenges in distinctive ways. Aside from practitioners’ theoretical and practical commitments, the therapeutic relationship has also been, and continues to be, shaped by broad…Read more
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115Psychological MechanismsIn V. Zeigler-Hill & T. Shackelford (eds.), Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences, . pp. 4145-4154. 2020.In the most inclusive sense, psychological mechanisms offer a type of causal explanation of mental states and behavior, often with reference to underlying processes, systems, activities, or entities. By postulating and investigating such mechanisms, researchers have sought explanations of a wide range of psychological phenomena. However, the concept has been deployed in dramatically different ways, with very different meanings, depending upon the particular school or tradition of psychology (and…Read more
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