TY - JOUR
T1 - How valuable are psychotherapy experiments?
T2 - The idiographic problem
AU - Erwin, Edward
PY - 1999/12/1
Y1 - 1999/12/1
N2 - The idiographic problem is said to arise because psychotherapy experiments study groups of subjects, whereas the clinician wants useful etiological or treatment information concerning a single, unique client. One response is to place little value on psychotherapy experiments and to argue for nonexperimental methods for obtaining clinical knowledge. It is argued here that these alternative methods are defective and that the idiographic problem can be solved without renouncing experimental methods.
AB - The idiographic problem is said to arise because psychotherapy experiments study groups of subjects, whereas the clinician wants useful etiological or treatment information concerning a single, unique client. One response is to place little value on psychotherapy experiments and to argue for nonexperimental methods for obtaining clinical knowledge. It is argued here that these alternative methods are defective and that the idiographic problem can be solved without renouncing experimental methods.
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U2 - 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4679(199912)55:12<1519::AID-JCLP9>3.0.CO;2-2
DO - 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4679(199912)55:12<1519::AID-JCLP9>3.0.CO;2-2
M3 - Review article
C2 - 10855485
AN - SCOPUS:0032752455
VL - 55
SP - 1519
EP - 1530
JO - In Session - Psychotherapy in Practice
JF - In Session - Psychotherapy in Practice
SN - 0021-9762
IS - 12
ER -