Observation through engagement - Observation through engagement

…He also deepened his exchanges with social sciences and cultural anthropology, and engaged in a wide range of activities, but died in Paris while attending an international conference at UNESCO. The basic feature of his theory is that he emphasized the significance of interpersonal relationships, and his theory points out the relationship between personality formation and mental disorders and empathy and anxiety between mothers and children in infancy, the concept of participant observation, which states that doctors cannot observe patients as objective objects, but observe them while influencing each other in human relationships, and the concept of parataxic distortion, which focuses on the irrational and unrealistic psychology that operates between doctors and patients. The only book published during his lifetime was “Concepts of Modern Psychiatry” (1940), but after his death, his disciples published “Interpersonal Psychiatry” (1953), “The Psychiatric Interview” (1954), and “Clinical Research in Psychiatry” (1956), based on his lecture records. …

*Some of the terminology used in reference to "involved observation" is listed below.

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…社会科学，文化人類学との交流も深め，広範な活動をしたが，ユネスコの国際会議出席中，パリで客死した。　彼の理論の基本的特徴は対人関係の意義を重視した点にあり，パーソナリティの形成や精神障害と幼児期の母子間の共感empathyや不安の関係を指摘した理論，医師は患者を客観的対象として観察することはできず，人間関係の中で相互に影響し合いながら観察するのだという〈関与しながらの観察participant observation〉の概念，医師患者間に働く不合理な非現実的心理に注目した〈パラタクシックな歪曲parataxic distortion〉の概念などが広く知られている。生前刊行された著書は《現代精神医学の概念》(1940)だけであったが，死後弟子たちによって，講義記録をもとに，《対人関係の精神医学》(1953)や《精神医学的面接》(1954)，《精神医学における臨床研究》(1956)などが刊行された。…

※「関与しながらの観察」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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