Abstract
The background of this study is twofold: basic methodological differences between Western Biomedicine and Classical Chinese Medicine (CCM) and obvious parallels between the methodology of psychotherapy and CCM. Drawing on available investigations on the methodology of CCM, the analysis of structural parallels between CCM and Western psychotherapy tries to enrich the methodological self-conception of psychotherapy in order to provide impulses for the new approaches to psychotherapeutic practice. The reciprocal interpretation of CCM about the patient's state draws on alanguage of metaphors. These metaphors "mediate" between the various positions of the universal interdependency and the human being, who is able to understand the language. The constructive realistic methodology in general and the epistemological method of "alienation" in particular, provide an instrument for the decodification of these metaphors. In the context of CCM, the process dynamics of mental healing are based on hermeneutical principals. Every operation carried out by the CCM therapist is not organ medical in nature but a purely semantic form. These semantic operations aim to provide ameaningful integration of problematical behavior (in terms of meaning) into metaphorically logical structures in order to stimulate acoherent self-understanding of the suffering individual, which is associated with healing effects. In this context, it is crucial for CCM that there is no conceptual division between body and soul with respect to the therapy. This enables acompletely different comprehensive treatment of mental problems than biomedicine is able to offer, due to its methodological presuppositions.
Highlights
The background of this study is twofold: basic methodological differences between Western Biomedicine and Classical Chinese Medicine (CCM) and obvious parallels between the methodology of psychotherapy and CCM
Drawing on available investigations on the methodology of CCM, the analysis of structural parallels between CCM and Western psychotherapy tries to enrich the methodological self-conception of psychotherapy in order to provide impulses for the new approaches to psychotherapeutic practice
In the context of CCM, the process dynamics of mental healing are based on hermeneutical principals
Summary
In einem ersten Annäherungsversuch könnten wir sagen, die chinesische Medizin hat einen konstruktivistischen Charakter, oder anders formuliert: der konstruktivistische Aspekt ist stärker als der deskriptive. Um diese Unterscheidung zu konkretisieren und zu sehen, wie bedeutsam sie ist, müssen wir uns der Methodologie der CCM zuwenden Zur methodologischen Handhabung der Interdependenz, in welche – wie gesagt – die ganze Welt, das Universum eingeschlossen ist, wäre die Kausalität denkbar ungeeignet (sie widerspräche auch der impliziten Anthropologie der CCM). An die Stelle der kausalen Verknüpfung muss ein Verfahren gestellt werden, das in gewissem Sinne deskriptiv ist, aber auch den Zusammenhang der einzelnen ontologischen Data herstellt. Hier liefert uns die CCM ein Verfahren, über das man auch aus der Blickweise der modernen europäischen Wissenschaft sagen kann, es ist genial. Das Verfahren ist zirkulär – was für ein Widerspruch zur westlichen Logik! – und die einzelnen Glieder dieser Kette
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