My own position on this is that, "There is no way to chi square a feeling and make it qualify as a scientific fact." This is based on the belief that human behavior is a part of all nature, so that it is as knowable and predictable and reproducible as other phenomena in nature; but I believe that research should be directed at making theoretical contact with other fields, rather than applying the scientific method to subjective human data.
From Bowen´s chapter ¨Theory in the practice of psychotherapy." Couldn´t resist tossing that in when I read it while writing a family theories paper today :)
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