受苦現象與哀傷情感：人文臨床心理學取向的探問

Suffering Phenomenology and Mourning Affect: Exploring from Humanistic Clinical Psychology Approach

本次「人文臨床與療癒」專題的規劃，嘗試經由人文臨床的部署，思考受苦現場給出的知識條件與實踐方式。這樣的思考，不是建立模型典範，亦非締結因果關係，而是在臨床實踐上，帶出蘊含情感質地的人文臨床心理學。
本專題共有三篇論文，以受苦與哀傷的現象心理學為主軸，探問人文臨床與療癒的議題。第一篇文章主要評論主流臨床心理學困境，倡議一種不同於自然科學典範的人文科學取向心理病理學。第二篇文章從Levinas與余德慧的本體論，以及相關本土心理學研究，還原受苦經驗，並以自我與他者的關係，建立三階段方法論。第三篇文章指出哀傷沒有終結時刻，而是一種超越「內化」與「外化」的「默化」現象，也是一種倫理關係的展現。
綜觀本專題中的三篇文章，相互呼應人文臨床的論述與實踐，期待激發未來更多元開放的對話與論述。

Ever since Dr. Der-Heuy Yee proposed a humanistic approach to clinical investigation to challenge the prevailing tradition of positivism ten years ago, how to articulate the epistemology, the praxis, the technique, and the strategy of the teaching and research of humanistic clinical studies has been an important point of discussion. The three essays in this special issue focus on the meaning of suffering and forms of cultural emotion that reflect a humanistic clinical psychology approach. The first paper, “Coming face-to-face with suffering: Psychopathology in a humanistic science-oriented clinical psychology”, recognizes the ontological status of the experience of suffering, which is irreducible, and hence inherently fits a humanistic rather than natural science paradigm. In the second paper, “Non-self as the starting point for inquiry into the lived experience of suffering and the practice of healing: A lesson from phenomenology”, the authors argue that examining the lived experience of suffering uncovers not only an epistemological understanding of a person’s disease, but also manifests that person’s values and ethical relations with others. To echo their claim, they propose three stages of reflexive concerns as a stepwise process for centering self-other ethics in order to structure and conceptualize the lived experience of suffering for clinical engagement. In the third paper “Temporality of the mourning processes: The caretakers’ psychological affective experiences”, the authors argue that bereavement is not only an individual mourning experience, it is also an ethical calling to their families. They conclude that mourning never ends, but is an implicit phenomenon that transcends the relationship. The main purpose of this special issue is not only to present current outcomes of humanistic clinical psychology studies in Taiwan, but also to facilitate a dialogue among scholars and practitioners in related fields.