| Abstract: | The author comments that while the participants in the discussion of the isolated worlds of the clinician and the experimentalist (April 1955, American Psychologist) were penetrating in their observations, they seemed to have left out one very important variable. He states that one may "use" feelings, intuition, and fantasies in the same way that one may "use" experimental findings and methodologies, statistics, and scientific principles. Both statistics and intuition, and any other human sensitivity or invention, may be "used" to maintain one's omnipotence. A most crucial variable in the discussion is maturity. To be open to all that is reality will permit the clinician and the experimentalist to communicate and contribute mutually and cooperatively to our increased understanding of human behavior. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
