EVIDENCE-BASED PSYCHOLOGICAL PRACTICES: PRINCIPLES OF AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH IN PSYCHOTHERAPY
Abstract
Relevance. The purpose of the article is to expand the frame of "evidence" of psychological practices thanks to the leading ideas of modern physics and the latest research in psychology.
Methodology. In preparing the article, a post-nonclassical methodology was used in the course of theoretical and methodological research, namely the principles of modern theoretical physics, which postulate the features of the current understanding of the scientific picture of the world and the laws and features of its existence. The author's modern interpretation of the basic philosophical categories of space and time, uncertainty and freedom, order and chaos, etc. is used to substantiate the prospects of a comprehensive (multidisciplinary) approach to the problem of evidence in the creation and use of modern psychotherapeutic approaches and psychological practices.
Results. The article considers the problem of updating the methodological foundations of psychology and psychotherapy in the context of integration with the principles of modern physics and philosophy of science. It is shown that traditional evidence-based practices, which are based on the mechanistic paradigm, need to be supplemented with a new ontology of the psyche, where consciousness and internal experience are considered as fundamental characteristics of reality. A comparison is made between classical evidence-based methods (cognitive-behavioral therapy, dialectical-behavioral therapy, schema therapy, systemic family therapy, trauma work methods) and the principles of modern physics (relationality, uncertainty, entropy, nonlinearity, superposition). The need for the integration of interdisciplinary knowledge for the development of new evidence-based approaches that take into account the complexity, multidimensionality and openness of mental processes is substantiated.
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