Qualitative research in diagnostic processes.
Social sciences, in general, and psychotherapy, in particular, have been informed by two fundamentally distinct methodologies of description and explanation: firstly, causal nomology based on operationalized data, and secondly, empirical hermeneutics focused on the meaningful context of intentions, experiences and actions. The paper deals with the second of these two methodologies in the context of research on psychotherapeutic diagnosis. This paradigm is a methodology for evaluating certain aspects of quality of life which deal with the subjective and interpersonal meaning of symptoms.
Frommer
J
J
Clinic for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine, Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany. joerg.frommer@medizin.uni-magdeburg.de
D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D012106:Research