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I enjoyed reading Schacht’s chapter and commentaries on our diverse approaches to the issue of integration among the psychotherapies. As some-one not infrequently seduced by what Lewis Thomas (1979) calls “transcendental metaworry,” I also found myself fascinated with Schacht’s analysis of metatheoretical issues and the problems of communication— let alone “unit analysis”—when competing paradigms and perspectives are being considered.
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Mahoney, M.J. (1984). Integration, Emergence, and the Structure of Scientific Progress. In: Arkowitz, H., Messer, S.B. (eds) Psychoanalytic Therapy and Behavior Therapy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2733-2_8
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