Mutual Values: Self Psychology, Intersubjectivity, and Social Work

This article explores a representative sample of the values which self psychology, intersubjectivity, and social work have in common. The mutual values chosen for consideration are: (1). The inherent worth of the human being (2). The uniqueness of the individual (3). Beginning where the client is; and (4). The centrality of the relationship in the clinical setting. The focus will be on the theories and methodologies which have emerged from these values in self psychology and intersubjectivity and their utility for clinical social work. The discussion of each value includes a clinical illustration from the author's practice in order to aid in the elucidation of the concepts presented.     

论交往与物质生产之间的内在张力

在实践与交往的关系上,一种倾向是低估交往的现实意义,把交往看作是实践的附属品;一种倾向是把实践局限在人与自然的关系领域,把交往局限于人与人的社会关系领域,把实践和交往割裂开来。实际上,实践中有交往,交往中也有实践。马克思对交往与物质生产之间内在张力的揭示,生动地说明了交往和实践的辩证关系。关注交往与物质生产的关系,对于审视效率与公平,把握社会发展与社会正义,构建社会主义和谐社会有着重要的实践意义。     

"主体际性世界"的建构--胡塞尔自我学中的一个主要问题

胡塞尔在自我学中提出的一个主要问题 ,就是“主体际性世界”的建构问题。它的任务主要是运用现象学的方法 ,由“先验自我”出发逐步地建构起普遍的自然界、单子间的共同体和周围世界。从本质上看 ,胡塞尔关于“主体际性世界”的建构仍未超出近代主体主义的传统 ,即他只是在思维、意识中克服了思维、意识的主观性 ,并未触及现实的生活世界本身。但另一方面 ,他在这里又力图在先验主体性的作用下 ,重建人与人之间的直接的关系 ,寻求自我与他我、与世界重新沟通的途径。     

论解构主义视角下的小说结尾结构

在后现代解构主义文化语境下,本文从小说结尾的＂结构＂与＂解构＂、＂现象＂与＂本质＂、＂作者＂与＂读者＂三个维度,对小说结尾＂结构＂的＂二律背反＂、＂现象＂世界的＂本质还原＂、作者与读者的＂主体间性＂的三重对话关系予以阐释,旨在还原小说结尾的人为＂建构性＂与＂解构性＂。     

方法论与生活世界 舒茨主体间性理论再讨论

舒茨从对个体行动的意识分析出发,基于胡塞尔的现象学与伯格森的意识哲学,对韦伯所建立的社会科学概念体系作了一个意义基础的建构工作,并进而运用理想类型的方法发展出了自己的社会世界的图景。在这一工作中,对他者问题的处理涉及了一系列深具社会学意涵的问题,而其核心则是主体间性问题。对主体间性之可能性这一问题的探讨,从社会思想史的传统脉络来看,不仅关涉社会学如何可能的问题,在舒茨的努力下,更成为了一项通过以我群群体为基础的、有意义的生活世界这一概念来回答近现代以来社会学的核心方法论问题--社会如何可能--的基本追求。     

主体间性视域下社会主义核心价值体系教育转向研究

主体间性理论强调平等的"主体-主体"关系,是对主体性理论的继承和发展。在主体间性理论指导下改进社会主义核心价值体系教育,有益于增进社会主义核心价值体系的社会认同。主体间性视域下社会主义核心价值体系教育的转向包括4个方面,即教育关系:从"话语霸权"走向"平等对话";教育理念:从"教育条目"走向"回归生活";教育方式:从"单向灌输"走向"交往互动";教育过程:从"强调预设"走向"关注生成"。     

Crisis,trauma, and challenge: A relational resilience approach for healing,transformation, and growth∗

The concept of resilience — strengths forged through adversity — offers a valuable framework for working with a broad diversity of clients and life challenges. Grounded in a developmental systemic perspective on vulnerability, risk, and resilience, the author has drawn together clinical and research advances to develop a useful practice framework to identify and facilitate key processes for individual and relational resilience. This paper will describe and illustrate this strengths‐oriented approach for healing, transformation, and growth out of crisis, trauma, and loss, with a focus on belief systems that foster resilience through meaning‐making, a positive outlook, and transcendence/spirituality.     

The Intersubjective Action of Case Advocacy and Engagement in a Working Alliance

This article presents a viewpoint for explaining the positive associations between case advocacy and the engagement in a working alliance of low‐income single mothers at‐risk for physical abuse of their children. Utilizing narrative vignettes from a qualitative study about clinical social workers’ experiences in engaging this population, the article suggests that client/worker partnerships in case advocacy enhanced opportunities for client/worker mutuality and for worker capacities to experience and communicate empathy to their clients. Theoretical constructs from Daniel J. Stern’s infant research and neuroscience are then applied to suggest an intersubjective framework for understanding what occurred.     

Shared Spaces: An Intersubjective Case Study of a Graduate Student by a Graduate Student

The intersubjective therapeutic experience creates a shared space within which client and therapist are affected and changed, as seen in a psychotherapy case involving graduate students and a graduate student clinician. Analysis of a clinical case composite from an intersubjective perspective is the primary tool used to examine client–therapist concurrent graduate work. A composite is used to protect confidentiality. Several themes are explored: anxiety, perfectionism, and socioculturally situated life stage. As a search of the literature revealed no previous work on the intersubjective experience of psychotherapy when client and therapist are engaged in concurrent graduate work, further exploration is encouraged.     

Considering Improvisation: Play,Transitional Space,and Discovery

This article explores the concept of improvisation in the therapeutic setting as a complex construction when elaborated in the idiom of jazz music. A composite clinical case is offered that illustrates an impasse and how improvisational thinking offers a way forward. Improvisation has recently been conceptualized through the metaphor of theater improvisation, dance, and rhythm. The therapeutic hour is considered an improvisational dialogue with the main theme (melody) and counter melodies, and harmonic possibilities that underlie the rhythmic pulse of the hour. Improvisation requires a reflective/interpretive process that draws on patterns, structures, and experiences reformulated in the relational field of the participants. The client initiates the call and response pattern, from which improvisation emerges as a mutual process of discovery. A more relaxed, receptive, and reflective posture extends Winnicott’s 1971 notion of play to integrate classic understanding and relational interaction.