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The Power of Believed-In Imaginings

The Power of Believed-In Imaginings COMMENTARIES Theodore R. Sarbin Department of Psychology University of California, Santa Cruz ist worldview-the replacement of the collaborative De Rivera's target article helps illuminate the prob- lem of recovered memories, a problem the solutions to method by a research ideology made popular by the French neuropathologist Charcot. The participant, usu- which have implications for psychological theory that ally a medical patient, was perceived as a vehicle for go beyond the much-debated forensic and social policy the workings of internal mechanisms. The object of concerns. De Rivera contributes to an area that has study, the "subject," was construed as an organismic received only sporadic attention from psychologists, namely, the spelling out of the contexts that lead a machine. Therefore, it was necessary to grant him or person to assign credibility to counterfactuals, and sub- her the priviledge of being an agent and potential contributor to understanding (Danziger, 1990). sequently to disavow credibility. Method Therapy Context The four women entered therapy because they were To begin, it is appropriate to comment on the proce- unhappy, distraught, and unable to cope with the stresses dures de Rivera uses to aid in constructing an explana- of work and domestic life. Their accounts indicate http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Psychological Inquiry Taylor & Francis

The Power of Believed-In Imaginings

Sarbin, Theodore R.
Psychological Inquiry , Volume 8 (4): 4 – Dec 1, 1997
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COMMENTARIES Theodore R. Sarbin Department of Psychology University of California, Santa Cruz ist worldview-the replacement of the collaborative De Rivera's target article helps illuminate the prob- lem of recovered memories, a problem the solutions to method by a research ideology made popular by the French neuropathologist Charcot. The participant, usu- which have implications for psychological theory that ally a medical patient, was perceived as a vehicle for go beyond the much-debated forensic and social policy the workings of internal mechanisms. The object of concerns. De Rivera contributes to an area that has study, the "subject," was construed as an organismic received only sporadic attention from psychologists, namely, the spelling out of the contexts that lead a machine. Therefore, it was necessary to grant him or person to assign credibility to counterfactuals, and sub- her the priviledge of being an agent and potential contributor to understanding (Danziger, 1990). sequently to disavow credibility. Method Therapy Context The four women entered therapy because they were To begin, it is appropriate to comment on the proce- unhappy, distraught, and unable to cope with the stresses dures de Rivera uses to aid in constructing an explana- of work and domestic life. Their accounts indicate

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