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Context of practice, practice of context: A psychotherapeutic meditation

Journal of Religion and Health volume 26, pages 261–269 (1987)Cite this article

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Intended as an essay on the perennial topic of the relation between theory and practice, which will not be all theory and no practice, this paper draws on contemporary philosphy of science and clinical theory to catalyze the reader's own further reflections on the topic by suggesting that the meanings of theories and practices are context-dependent, and so the question can never be answered in the abstract, and that the separation of theory and practice is something we can do only in theory, never in practice.

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  1. associate professor, Department of Religion at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

    James W. Jones Psy. D., Ph. D.

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Jones, J.W. Context of practice, practice of context: A psychotherapeutic meditation. J Relig Health 26, 261–269 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01533877

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  • Clinical Theory