Why your pain must not exist: Bias & Phenomenology at the ends of medicine

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cityu.schoolDivision of Arts and Sciences
cityu.siteVancouver, BC
cityu.site.countryCanada
dc.contributor.authorTrudell, Shane
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-11T22:06:07Z
dc.date.available2020-06-11T22:06:07Z
dc.date.issued2020-05-28
dc.description.abstractInterrupting bias in counselling psychotherapy is critical to ethical practice. This paper demonstrates how the scientific method, for all its utility in health and medicine, also functions as a worldview and a personal bias which is antagonistic to the lived experience of some clients. This personal and individual level of analysis contributes to the critical psychology literature which has typically focused on the historical and institutional roles of science in counselling therapy. Using the case of irritable bowel syndrome it is demonstrated how individual practitioners can become engaged in conflict when client lived experiences take practitioners to the ends of medical knowledge. In this zero sum conflict, the survival of one world view means the other must not exist. I suggest that by acknowledging and attending to the anxieties of this encounter, counselling therapists can enhance their capacity to perform ethical and productive care work. I point to radical empiricism as a methodology that can support less biased client engagement without clinical practice becoming less scientific or less expert.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11803/901
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisher.institutionCity University of Seattle (CityU)
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States
dc.rightsopenAccess
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/
dc.subjectepistemology
dc.subjectphenomenology
dc.subjectinterrupting bias
dc.subjectirritable bowel syndrome
dc.subjectradical empiricism
dc.titleWhy your pain must not exist: Bias & Phenomenology at the ends of medicine
dc.typeThesis
thesis.degree.disciplineCounselling
thesis.degree.grantorCity University of Seattle
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Counselling
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