<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>A large amount of research in mental health care relates to the notion of trust, as a possible common factor in psychopathology, and as a common dimension of psychotherapeutic alliance, underlying the various therapeutic methods. Such hypotheses call for a more detailed analysis of this notion of trust. The paper seeks to shed light on this issue by confronting the clinical and phenomenological approaches. We propose to focus on three issues at stake: 1/ the issue of the existence of a tacit or pre-reflective trust, which can be defined by a phenomenological method. 2/ the issue of a foundation of trust in empathy, which questions the debates about empathy in phenomenological works. 3/ the issue of a structural self-opacity, brought to light through the paradoxical structure of trust, and that we propose to tackle with the notions of attestation and narrative identity.</p></abstract>

A large amount of research in mental health care relates to the notion of trust, as a possible common factor in psychopathology, and as a common dimension of psychotherapeutic alliance, underlying the various therapeutic methods. Such hypotheses call for a more detailed analysis of this notion of trust. The paper seeks to shed light on this issue by confronting the clinical and phenomenological approaches. We propose to focus on three issues at stake: 1/ the issue of the existence of a tacit or pre-reflective trust, which can be defined by a phenomenological method. 2/ the issue of a foundation of trust in empathy, which questions the debates about empathy in phenomenological works. 3/ the issue of a structural self-opacity, brought to light through the paradoxical structure of trust, and that we propose to tackle with the notions of attestation and narrative identity.

Trust, Between Tacit Self-Confidence and Self-Opacity: Some Clinical Phenomenology Issues

Phainomenon

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A large amount of research in mental health care relates to the notion of trust, as a possible common factor in psychopathology, and as a common dimension of...

Trust, Between Tacit Self-Confidence and Self-Opacity: Some Clinical Phenomenology Issues

Published Online: Oct 14, 2021

Page range: 77 - 102

Received: Sep 12, 2018

Accepted: Jan 12, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/phainomenon-2018-0010

Keywords
trust, clinical phenomenology, empathy, therapeutic alliance, narrative identity

© 2018 Sarah Troubé, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Trust, Between Tacit Self-Confidence and Self-Opacity: Some Clinical Phenomenology Issues

Published Online: Oct 14, 2021

Page range: 77 - 102

Received: Sep 12, 2018

Accepted: Jan 12, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/phainomenon-2018-0010

Keywordstrust, clinical phenomenology, empathy, therapeutic alliance, narrative identity

© 2018 Sarah Troubé, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
trust, clinical phenomenology, empathy, therapeutic alliance, narrative identity