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Philosophy as the Science of Value: Neo-Kantianism as a Guide to Psychiatric Interviewing
- Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 15, Number 2, June 2008
- pp. 107-116
- 10.1353/ppp.0.0172
- Article
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Psychiatric interviewing highlights the apparent tension between psychiatry's quest for objectivity and its aim to chart the particular experiences and values of individuals. Neo-Kantian philosophy can help to shed light on this apparent tension. There need be no conflict between an exploration of individual values and scientific inquiry, not least because values play a central role in the selection of facts in scientific observation in general and psychiatric history taking in particular.