Showing papers by "João Salgado published in 2006"
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze positivist and social constructionist perspectives on ambiguity in the context of their epistemological and ontological fundamental assumptions and argue that ambiguity is a fundamental property of human experience and plays a fundamental role in the constitution of (inter)subjective processes.
Abstract: It is intuitively felt that ambiguity plays a crucial role in human beings' everyday life and in psychologists' theoretical and applied work. However, ambiguity remains essentially non-problematised in psychological science since its foundation. This article analyses positivist and social constructionist perspectives on ambiguity in the context of their epistemological and ontological fundamental assumptions. The relational thesis of social constructionism is further analysed and it is argued that it constitutes a “weak thesis” concerning the relational constitution of human beings. In the second part, a dialogical alternative is elaborated. In this perspective, ambiguity is placed in the context of relationship and both are brought to an ontological ground. Therefore, it is argued, ambiguity is a fundamental property of human experience and plays a fundamental role in the constitution of (inter)subjective processes. The impact of this thesis on dialogical perspective on self is elaborated.
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TL;DR: Chaudhary's book Listening to Culture: Constructing Reality from Everyday Talk offers us the possibility of embarking on a journey through the complex and multifaceted reality of human life in India as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Nandita Chaudhary’s book Listening to Culture: Constructing Reality from Everyday Talk offers us the possibility of embarking on a journey through the complex and multifaceted reality of human life in India. It turns out to be a truly enriching piece of work in the realm of cultural psychology studies. The author follows several streams of thought, trying to create a delicate balance between the arguments of postmodernism and socioconstructivism, while retaining the aim of creating a scientific approach of personhood. Indeed, all this work embraces the challenge of making an empirical analysis of the person that follows the basic premise of cultural psychology: bringing to the foreground subjectivity and culture as two bounded and intertwined poles. Most of all, through several tales, personal stories and accounts of national events, we get the feeling of contact with the human life that takes place in that part of the globe. Psychology, in its dualistic approach of separating personhood and culture, has been dominated by categories clearly rooted in (some) Western cultures. Underneath this state of affairs lies a kind of belief in
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01 Jan 2006
TL;DR: In this article, the psychotherapist's social role under a dialogical perspective is studied, and the authors discuss a multiplicity of problems and potentials, providing us with a meaningful space for dialogue among our multiple and sometimes discrepant perspectives.
Abstract: In this commentary we discuss our reactions towards the six contributions on our article “The psychotherapist’s social role under a dialogical perspective: A study of the personal construction of «I as psychotherapist»” (in this issue). These commentaries discuss a multiplicity of problems and potentials, providing us with a meaningful space for dialogue among our multiple and sometimes discrepant perspectives. We have organized our reaction around three issues: (1) the importance of context influence on the process of being a psychotherapist; (2) the use of the motives as a tool to organize the psychotherapists’ diversity; and (3) the methodology for studying the dialogical
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