Miller, G. (2018) Inferiority and bereavement: implicit psychological commitments in the cultural history of Scottish psychotherapy. European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling, 20(1), pp. 76-87. (doi: 10.1080/13642537.2017.1421983)
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Abstract
The author has argued that psychoanalytic psychotherapy was seen in Scotland as a way to purify Christianity of supernaturalism and moralism, and to propel the faith in a scientifically rational and socially progressive direction. In making this historiographic claim, certain disciplinary protocols are followed, such as the symmetry postulate and a deprecation of reductive psychohistorical explanation. Nonetheless, the contemporary historian of psychotherapy is a psychologized subject whose historical practice rests upon a complex, prereflective background of psychological presuppositions.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Miller, Dr Gavin |
| Authors: | Miller, G. |
| College/School: | College of Arts & Humanities > School of Critical Studies > English Literature |
| Journal Name: | European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
| ISSN: | 1364-2537 |
| ISSN (Online): | 1469-5901 |
| Published Online: | 15 January 2018 |
| Copyright Holders: | Copyright © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group |
| First Published: | First published in European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling 2091):76-87 |
| Publisher Policy: | Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher |
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