Re:Common Factors

I think you points are well spoken. I would also wonder what criteria must be met for interaction to be called technique according to that researcher?

However, in a vein opposed to technique-izing people to death in the name of therapy, I must add, that therapy is more a craft (maybe 'art' is to soft a concept here). In a craft one must learn routines, techniques, helpful little tricks of the trade, and the perceptions regarding when and how to employ same. But then, as the craft is mastered we find that there is a letting go of the basic 'techniques', etc., and a savvy about goal (target object, etc.) becomes the foreground -- a relationship with the product of that craft consumes the craftsperson. The techniques are there to be sure, but they are not the foreground as in the beginning. Instead, this style, lifestyle, worldview, epistemology, relationship (sic) becomes the vehicle that determines whether the outcome is a cheap souvenir or a real valuable collector's item. So...there is something in all this talk of difference.

And still again having said that...I agree with your doubts about that research you mentioned for all the reasons you stated and more!

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