20200526 : [[Book - More than Miracles]] [[020.300 Solution Focused MOC]] book. More than Miracles #language #psychotherapy [[0_PARA/💡 Resources & Themes/Wittgenstein/Ludwig Wittgenstein]] Wittgenstein. Language can be full or traps and knots. * Therapy, like philosophy is done within language, thus subject to similar traps and getting tied up. * Wittgenstein philosophy is on purpose to be confusing and crisscrossing, design to make reader look again, and think again. * Wittgenstein, talked about classification (such as diagnosis) is general, remarked that: The classification made by philosophers and psychologists are like those that someone would give who tried to classify clouds by their shape" * "The difficulty arises when we start to think that words carry their meaning around with them rather than seeing that meaning arises out of use.” — Words’ meaning are defined by how it’s used. * Psychology views and psychotherapeutic emphasis has been influenced by philosophical framework, e.g emotions seen within/inside a person.. and we need to get emotion under control. * Language is used, to “fix certain behavior/norms” in a “game” * We use language, words and misconceived propositions like “people act on their intentions and beliefs”, as a proposition … but it may not be truth BUT, what about theory? * Having a theory allows us to eliminate uncertainty. * Freud dynamic theory, created after seeing one, or small number of cases, and generalized to all other cases. e.g all dreams are wish fulfillment So EVERY dream is wish fulfillment * Sherlock Holmes - Facts can, do, should change theory. But theory does not should not, must bot change facts. * The danger of generalizing from a small number of cases. . . . And we may not advance any kind of theory. There must not be anything hypothetical in our considerations. We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place. And this description gets it light, that is to say its purpose, from the . . . problems. These are, of course, not empirical problems; they are solved, rather, by looking into the workings of our lan- guage, and that in such a way as to make us recognize those workings: in de- spite of an urge to misunderstand them. The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have always known. Philosophy [and therapy] is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language (PI, #109). * If there is no theory, renouncing theory, we have to stay on the language… descriptions. * Like many or even most theories, such a theory tells us how things must be or should be rather than telling us about or describing how things are. Describing and teaching SFBT practice demands that we focus on how things are so that the trainees can learn to do SFBT. It seems to me that only through learning to practice can thera- pists come to know SFBT. * The use of language can cause us to use logic, thinking concepts, cognition differently in “comparing” and “grouping” and “classifying” different things.. This may lead us unexpectedly into knots and muddles. * To a music chord, a note, outside of it’s home it loses its meaning. Similarly, when words and sentences are removed from their home, (the context) their meaning can easily get lost. * Family resemblance concepts. * The “scientific way of think” leading us to think that there is a causal point of view that leads us us to say “of course, it had to happen like that.” When in fact, it could have happened in many other ways. — reading this chapter. I felt that there something important here. Yet I do not fully comprehend what it is saying!