Rolfe G
J Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs. 1995;2(2):105-9. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2850.1995.tb00150.x.
In its quest for acceptance by the scientific community, mental health nursing research has developed an unhealthy obsession with methodological rigour. This paper draws on the work of several writers from the philosophy of social science to argue that this focus on methodology stifles individual creativity and acts as a gatekeeper to the profession which excludes many of our brightest and most creative researchers. The author proposes a new approach to doing research that facilitates the creative process by encouraging a playful approach that temporarily abandons the accepted rules and methods of the research process in favour of an 'anarchistic epistemology' and a variety of unusual and not necessarily externally validated methods. It is only at the end of the research process that valid and generalizable methods are introduced, and the author calls for journals to open a creative dialogue by being more willing to publish papers describing the early, exploratory stages of research, based on a judgement of their creativity and innovation.
为了获得科学界的认可，心理健康护理研究对方法的严谨性产生了一种不健康的痴迷。本文借鉴了几位社会科学哲学领域作家的作品，认为对方法论的这种关注扼杀了个人创造力，并且成为该专业的守门人，将许多最聪明、最有创造力的研究人员排除在外。作者提出了一种新的研究方法，通过鼓励采用一种有趣的方式来促进创造性过程，这种方式暂时摒弃研究过程中公认的规则和方法，转而支持“无政府主义认识论”以及各种不寻常且不一定经过外部验证的方法。只有在研究过程结束时才引入有效且可推广的方法，作者呼吁期刊通过更愿意发表基于对其创造性和创新性的判断来描述研究早期探索阶段的论文，开启创造性对话。
