The present study was an attempt to show that the behavioral technique of desensitization is superior to insight-oriented psychotherapy in terms of not only behavior change for individuals undergoing desensitization but in terms of case of acquisition to novice therapists who have virtually no clinical experience.

This thesis investigates the relationship between analysis and insight in Prasarigika Madhyamika Buddhism. More specifically it asks whether analysis is a necessary and/or a sufficient condition for the generation of insight. The thesis is divided into six chapters which include an introduction, an appendix which outlines Prasangika and Svatantrika views regarding the syllogism (svatantra) and a conclusion. The remaining chapters seek to demonstrate that analysis for the Prasarigika and the Tibetan Geluk-ba school is a necessary, but not a sufficient condition for the arising of insight. Chapter one is an investigation of certain Western psychological theories which deal with the effects on the mind of cogitating upon contradictions. Though the psychological theories are only suggestive, this chapter will lend support to the claim a) of the Prasaiigika, that analysis generates an altered state of consciousness; and b) that analysis may be a necessary and sufficient condition for the generation of insight. Chapter two seeks to construct a logico-psychological model of how insight is generated. In this model it is argued that insight is a conceptual and intuitive experience: i.e. non-inferential, and that all thought comes via the intuition. This model argues that analysis is a necessary, but not a sufficient condition for the generation of insight. In chapter three an investigation of the writings of Dzong-ka-ba (Tsong-Kha-pa) is undertaken in order to ascertain how the Tibetan Geluk-ba (dGe lugs pa) school regard the relationship between analysis and insight. The model of chapter two will be compared with the Tibetan Geluk-ba accounts to gauge its explanatory power and correspondence with the Geluk-ba views. Chapter four is an investigation of the writings of certain Western scholars. This investigation seeks to ascertain how these scholars may have regarded the relationship between analysis and insight. The chapter then compares these views with the model developed in chapter two.

By re-examining the epistemological foundations upon which the ego-centric clinical construct of insight in psychosis rests, research conducted with the narratives of patients who participated in the clinical project, Psychosis and Culture: The Role of Spaces of Negotiation (Between Patients, Families, and Practitioners) During Consultation was aimed to explore and formulate a socio-centric model of insight construction more sensitive to patients' intersubjective and cultural milieus. Collected interviews---conducted with recently diagnosed psychotic patients using the Turning Point Interview (TPI) grid---were approached from a phenomenological and hermeneutical perspective in order to illustrate the processual manner in which patients' insight (into the cause and reason of illness) was the cognitive and epistemic derivative of dialogical relations with other persons set within a socio-cultural matrix. The results of this research indicate that the production of patients' insight in psychosis is an inherently intersubjective and dialogic phenomenon which, in the clinical context, occurs at two points of juncture: (1) a synchronic juncture where the patient is interpellated by the clinician and hence positioned as a speaking subject, and (2) a diachronic juncture where the patient, as a result of having been called into a speaking position, constructs and authors a narrative account of significant events related to his/her illness experience based on biographical memory. Insight was shown to consist of 3 stages: (1) Detection of alteration of lived experience, (2) Causal attribution, and (3) Global construction of meaning . Each stage was shown to form the intersubjective and dialogic basis for the production of a subjectively meaningful account of insight, using the lifeworid of the patients and the patients' entourage as subjective frames of reference.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 111-123).

The central aim of this study was to contribute to the understanding of the process of interpretation as it occurs in the context of a dialogue in insight-oriented psychotherapy. The literature review consisted of two parts. Firstly, the philosophical literature on the theory of interpretation was reviewed. A set of central philosophical issues was identified, which pertain to the psychotherapeutic project of interpreting the meaning of a person's experience in the context of a dialogue with that person. Secondly, the psychotherapeutic literature was reviewed. Previous attempts to conceptualise and prescribe processes of interpretation were described. The issues which appeared to be in need of further clarification were identified. A clinical study was conducted to further explore the questions raised in the literature reviews. A methodology was developed which gave access to the direct experience of both clients and therapists during the events of psychotherapeutic interpretation. The methodology yielded a description of the interpretative structure of the psychotherapeutic dialogue for each therapist-client pair. These were then consolidated into a description of general structural features of the psychotherapeutic dialogue. The results consisted of a description of processes and structural features which are intrinsic to the psychotherapeutic interpretation of the meaning of a person's experience in the context of a dialogue. The results were elaborated in an extensive discussion from which the following findings emerged: (l)It is important to distinguish between communicative and interpretative forms of dialogue. (2)Thematisation activity is mediated by a number of dialectically related operations which are intrinsic to the interpretative project of psychotherapy. (3)Insight-oriented psychotherapy relies on the presence of the therapist as a dialogical partner and the therapist is not merely a facilitator of introspection on the part of the client. (4)The character of interpretation in psychotherapy may be understood in certain respects to be an elaboration of functions of the imagination. (5)The process of interpretation can be understood in relational terms and the variations of interpretative experience may be understood as variations of 'an inter-subjective interpretative ideal. (6)Understanding of certain forms of psychopathology is deepened when they are considered as variations of an ideal capacity to engage in interpretative dialogue. (7)It is possible to describe certain ideal conditions which are facilitative of interpretative dialogue and hence of the psychotherapeutic development of self-insight. In conclusion suggestions for further research were made. It was suggested that the perspective of hermeneutic phenomenology provides an appropriate philosophical and methodological foundation for understanding the unique dialogical interpretative situation which is psychotherapy. The study emphasized, both in its content and in the manner of its execution, the need for interpretative efforts to be accompanied by methodological reflection and especially an awareness of how interpretative strategies partially constitute the realities they set out to describe.

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This thesis investigates the utility of using the Compound Remote Associate (CRA) problem, developed by Bowden and Jung-Beeman (2003), in investigating the neural correlates insight. It is uncertain to what extent CRA problems are insight problems. In Experiment 1, I performed a protocol analysis of people solving CRA problems and found that CRA problems can and should be used to investigate insight. However, certain considerations should be taken. Particularly, researchers should separate problems solved with insight when the solution is the first thing considered (immediate-insight) from problems solved with insight when the solution is obtained after at least some deliberation (delayed-insight). Parsing insight solutions into separate categories, I performed a functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) experiment. The results suggest a distinct difference in processing between delayed and immediate insight solutions. The results shed light into possible irregularities in prior studies and provide important considerations for future research on insight problem solving.

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