University of Hull, UK.
Hist Psychiatry. 2023 Sep;34(3):273-286. doi: 10.1177/0957154X231163764. Epub 2023 Apr 3.
The hybrid constitution of psychiatry carries important implications for understanding the discipline and the legitimacy of its research approaches. One implication concerns the central role of concepts in forming the knowledge base of psychiatry. Because of this, it is vital to explore the structures and interrelationships of concepts through their historical constitution. Using this approach to compare concepts of empathy as articulated by R Vischer, T Lipps and E Stein shows that, despite overlap, the concepts vary in structure, in meaning and in the aspect of reality they capture. This suggests that the concept of empathy carries an unstable ontology and epistemology. In turn, this carries implications for the concept itself, for psychiatry and for research approaches in this field.
精神病学的混合构成对理解该学科及其研究方法的合法性具有重要意义。其中一个含义涉及概念在形成精神病学知识库方面的核心作用。因此，通过其历史构成来探索概念的结构和相互关系至关重要。使用这种方法比较 R·维舍尔、T·利普斯和 E·斯坦因阐述的共情概念表明，尽管存在重叠，但这些概念在结构、意义和所捕捉的现实方面存在差异。这表明共情概念具有不稳定的本体论和认识论。反过来，这对该概念本身、精神病学以及该领域的研究方法都有影响。
