2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
Modernity clearly demonstrates to us that we live in a world ruled by concepts. Concepts that multiply daily, every minute, and even, I think, every second. They are so diverse that the question of their truth sometimes seems simply irrelevant
If before the appearance of mass printing in national languages (somewhere in the middle of the last millennium) every educated person could at least theoretically read the main literature ever written by man, then after that all hope of knowing everything has irrevocably disappeared. Since then, the flurry of concepts has steadily grown in intensity. The last "nail in the coffin" has hammered the Internet - the flow of conceptual information has become fundamentally uncontrollable. At least a person. Conceptual chaos all around! Truth is dying!
But at the same time, it is precisely the concepts that basically determine the behavior and life of a person - concepts about the nature of reality, about life and death, about norm and pathology, about morality and cynicism. And so on. It is not surprising if at the same time anxiety in a person became stronger and stronger. It seems to me that this is what happens. These circumstances give rise to a number of features that are manifested in modern culture. One of them, in my opinion, is the tendency towards a scientific antidote to conceptual chaos.
From now on I will only talk about the human sciences. The ability to possess the truth about human nature, if not completely died in the postmodern era, is at least in the intensive care unit of modern scientific institutions. There is a struggle for her life. At the same time, they are increasingly talking about evidence-based medicine, scientific psychology. They are trying to make the label “scientific research proved” a sign of the quality of this or that school, this or that direction in human research. Psychotherapy did not escape this either. Since its inception, attempts have been made to make it scientific. It is worth remembering that one of the first works of the founder of this field of knowledge about man, S. Freud, is the text "Project of Scientific Psychology".
At the same time, attempts to make psychotherapy scientific continue. For several decades, thousands of scientists have been conducting research on the effectiveness of psychotherapy. And there are thousands of results, sometimes completely contradicting each other.
Maybe psychotherapy has never been a science? And it never will? Personally, I think that psychotherapy, at least Gestalt therapy, is more of an art form than a science. It is also fair to sometimes consider it a craft. And also some form of philosophical practice. But not science at all. Although there are schools of psychotherapy that try to be more or less successful in being scientific - CBT, for example, or classical clinical psychotherapy.
By the way, I believe that art is an equally effective way to deal with the conceptual chaos of knowledge about a person. If science moves along the path of control or coping with it, then art accompanies chaos, creating within the chaos this or that actual form or image. I suppose we will never know what I am and what the other person is in our true nature, but we can move along the path of creativity in our life and in contact with the Other.
Sitting down opposite my client, every time I do not even suspect how our meeting will turn in the next 5 minutes. I am ready every second to be surprised that together with him we create in the process of touching each other with our hearts. And each time it is a completely unique product - Life. If I want to move my client in one direction or another to "improve" his life, I will have to stop creating and be surprised at what is happening. My psychotherapy will turn into a craft or the implementation of some Pygmalion's narcissistic project from psychotherapy.
But what about the truth? No way. It just doesn't exist! And it never existed in reality. Are there interpretations of her that serve as the material for the creativity of psychotherapy as images?
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