The Recipe and the Case. Epistemic Genres and the Dynamics of Cognitive Practices

Pomata, Gianna

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“…In psychoanalysisunlike in medicine (Pomata, 2013), traditional psychology (Danziger, 1990), or in more contemporary trends of symptom-focused therapies (Cottraux, 2017)the general truth of a theory is not applied to specific cases. Instead, the verbalization approach is supported so that the subject (who is placed at the center) can speak the truth without contextual constraints (be they social or scientific) and then be accompanied in its emergence, thus bringing about effects.…”

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Psychoanalysis and evaluation: a stratified model focused on the uniqueness of the case

Visentini

Blanc

Laufer

2019

The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review

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This article addresses the methodological controversies surrounding the issue of how to evaluate the psychotherapies. It proposes to identify the principles of an integrative and stratified model in order to report the results of analytical therapy (its efficacy) based on the very effectiveness of its processes. Thus, the uniqueness of the case is put at the center of the evaluation setting. Methods Drawing on science studies, the authors engage in a reflexive exercise on the problem of psychoanalysis' evaluation based on methodological questions raised in the field over time and current issues related to practice. Results First, the regularly asserted opposition between the norms of analytical practice and those governing standard evaluation procedures is reinterpreted as the effect of a lack of intermediate epistemic patterns. Second, the fundamental principles of an integrative model are considered so as to translate and articulate a set of heterogeneous requirements into distinct strata. Discussion Since psychoanalysis is fundamentally a case-by-case practice characterized by inequivalence and unexpectedness, its utmost aim is to use a type of effectiveness based on the singularity of the case. However, this does not prevent it from being evaluable provided that the epistemic levels of the evaluation are clearly differentiated.

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Psychoanalysis and evaluation: a stratified model focused on the uniqueness of the case

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Laufer

2019

The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review

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“…She was most concerned with how to differentiate the types of genres aligned with scientific practices such as "the treatise, the lecture, the commentary, the encyclopedia, the textbook; but also, less obviously, the aphorism, the dialogue, the essay, the medical recipe, the case history." 1 First, she asked how literary scholars have understood genres as the most fundamental narrative forms within which people both formulate their thoughts and read about other's thoughts. She pointed out as well that genre categories are significantly both emic (i.e., what contemporary readers and writers used to differentiate literary practices) and etic (i.e., what later literary scholars and historians use to describe and analyze various literary practices of the past and present) (Note 1).…”

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Epistemic Genres as a Conceptual Tool in the History of Chinese Medicine

Hanson¹

2022

Chinese Medicine and Culture

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This article summarizes the collaboration between two historians of medicine on Sino-European medical exchanges. Gianna Pomata researches the history of medicine in early modern Europe and Marta Hanson researches the history of medicine in early modern China. The following covers the concept of epistemic genres that Pomata first developed out of her research on the history of the genres historia, observationes, recipes, medical cases, and the commentary in Europe. She connected these genres variously to empiricism, erudition, scientific observation, norm-making, and recording practice. The paper then evaluates how Pomata and Hanson used epistemic genres as a method for doing cross-cultural research on 17th–18th-century Sino-European medical exchanges. Pomata then wrote a comparative history of the medical case in Europe and China. The article concludes with how Hanson applied the distinction of epistemic genres to analyze the history of Chinese medicine from a new perspective.

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“…Not all genres examined in this issue are completely new, but historical actors deliberately used them to form new arguments or to guide new practices in their respective periods. 4 Through a close reading of materia medica works, Chang Che-chia uncovers heterogeneous intentions in composing commentaries for the Divine Husbandman’s Canon of Materia Medica (神农本草经). Liu Xiaomeng uses practical works on authenticating medicines in late imperial China to reconstruct the sensory technique used in the medicinal markets.…”

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Introduction to the Special Issue for Cultures of Knowledge in the History of Chinese Medicine

2023

Chinese Medicine and Culture

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The Recipe and the Case. Epistemic Genres and the Dynamics of Cognitive Practices

Cited by 16 publications

References 18 publications

Psychoanalysis and evaluation: a stratified model focused on the uniqueness of the case

Psychoanalysis and evaluation: a stratified model focused on the uniqueness of the case

Epistemic Genres as a Conceptual Tool in the History of Chinese Medicine

Introduction to the Special Issue for Cultures of Knowledge in the History of Chinese Medicine

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