Schwartz, W. / Published 2022 / Presentation
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| Presenter | Wynn Schwartz, Ph.D. |
| Date | October 1, 2022 |
| Abstract: | Peter Ossorio famously said, “Promise them anything but give them behavior potential” as a starting point for understanding the relationship of the formal subject matter of Descriptive Psychology (DP), The Person Concept, to the theories and practices that constitute psychotherapy. Although there are therapeutic approaches and ways of talking characteristic of the DP community, there is no Descriptive Psychology branded therapy, nor should there be. Instead, DP’s Person Concept provides a framework for comparative psychotherapy. That said, Peter Ossorio and Ray Bergner have systematically described policies and practices –– deliberately compatible with the Person Concept –– that are paradigmatic examples of how a person, deeply and competently informed by DP, might conduct non-eclectic psychotherapy grounded in pragmatics rather than theory. |
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