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In these pages⋯ The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 5.], No. 1, 1993 Increasingly, broad theories that seek to organize presumptive fields of inquiry are regarded as exaggerating truth claims while imposing procrus- tean distortions on how their proponents organize data. An alternate ave- nue to the creation of knowledge is to adopt a pluralistic system of com- prehension that incorporates multiple perspectives. Here, the idea is to appreciate what each of the blind men offers about the elephant rather than to aggressively endorse the position of one of them. Sandra Yarock opens this issue of the Journal applying Fred Pine's Four Psychologies model to chronic bulimia. She illustrates the effectiveness of this epis- temology. Nevertheless, this postmodern approach to knowledge as observed in Yarock's work need not subvert the rich possibilities for comprehension provided by single theories. Susan Kavaler-Adler turns to object relations to address the question: How does the therapist contribute to the therapy? She underscores that if the analyst can withstand the preoedipal patient's guilty aggression, then the patient's capacity for mourning may emerge. In these patients, mourning may be for the idealized mother with whom sym- biotic fusion is the essential desire. Kavaler-Adler insists that there must be http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
1993 Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
ISSN
0002-9548
eISSN
1573-6741
DOI
10.1007/BF01250069
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Abstract

The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 5.], No. 1, 1993 Increasingly, broad theories that seek to organize presumptive fields of inquiry are regarded as exaggerating truth claims while imposing procrus- tean distortions on how their proponents organize data. An alternate ave- nue to the creation of knowledge is to adopt a pluralistic system of com- prehension that incorporates multiple perspectives. Here, the idea is to appreciate what each of the blind men offers about the elephant rather than to aggressively endorse the position of one of them. Sandra Yarock opens this issue of the Journal applying Fred Pine's Four Psychologies model to chronic bulimia. She illustrates the effectiveness of this epis- temology. Nevertheless, this postmodern approach to knowledge as observed in Yarock's work need not subvert the rich possibilities for comprehension provided by single theories. Susan Kavaler-Adler turns to object relations to address the question: How does the therapist contribute to the therapy? She underscores that if the analyst can withstand the preoedipal patient's guilty aggression, then the patient's capacity for mourning may emerge. In these patients, mourning may be for the idealized mother with whom sym- biotic fusion is the essential desire. Kavaler-Adler insists that there must be

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The American Journal of PsychoanalysisSpringer Journals

Published: Mar 1, 1993

Keywords: Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis

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