Re: [xmca] Is there something about LSV in "clinical settings"?

Many questions, - one by one:

1. "Gestaltist orientation" - absolutely! However, just a remark: by "Gestaltist" I mean here mostly the work of K. Lewin and his school. Indeed so, I would even go as far as to claim that during the early 1930s Lewin becomes more insightful for Vygotsky than, say, Luria (and certainly not Leontiev).

2. The actual role of Vygotsky - I guess Samukhin was the one who actually wrote the paper, Birenbaum supervised it, and the whole study was conducted under the supervision of the deathly ill Vygotsky a couple of years before (I woudl still need to check out the actual dates provided in the text). This said, however, I do not think we should dismiss the experience of the Medical Doctor Samukhin as well as the contribution of Lewin's student Gita Birenbaum. I would say, this was a truly collaborative paper. Also, please note that the name of the third author (LSV) is in the black frame, which clearly means that the paper was published after his death.

3. Nobody knows for sure when the paper was written, but as a hint, I guess, it would be worthwhole to check out the list of the papers that Vygotsky proposed for a series on clinical psychology (see his letter to Luria of November 21, 1933 (Vestnik MGU, 2007; Journal of Russian and East European Psychology, vol. 45, no. 2, March–April 2007, pp. 11–60).

4. Finally, another couple of papers that have been overlooked by the historians of psychology are those by Birenbaum and Zeigarnik (1935a, 1935b), in which the authors are reporting on their studies under the supervision of Vygotksy and are clearly trying to merge the work of Vygotsky with Lewin's theory. Another good point of departure.

Good luck!

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From: Achilles Delari Junior <achilles_delari@hotmail.com>
To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
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Subject: RE: [xmca] Is there something about LSV in "clinical settings"?

Thanks Anton, very much...

I had obtained a copy of Vygotsky Samukhin and Birembaum...
But my process of translation from Russian to Portuguese is very hard
and slow. Do you think that there is a definite "Gestaltist" orientation
at all this work? How do you evaluate the actual role of Vygotsky
in the final writing of the text? (...) Can you tell us something more
about the history of the experiences with patients and the
history of the production of this interesting paper? It was really
writed in 1934, or only published at this year? The more advanced
vygotskyan conception of semiotic mediation (exposed at chapter
seven "misl i slovo") is already present at the work of Pick Disease
patients?

Thank you very much. Sorry about so much questions, maybe
not so relevant ones, but I'm curious...

Best wishes.

Achilles.

> Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:19:52 -0800
> From: the_yasya@yahoo.com
> Subject: Re: [xmca] Is there something about LSV in "clinical settings"?
> To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
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> The paper with Samukhin and Birenbaum seems to be virtually the only source on "clinical Vygotsky" that has been published to date.
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> To the best of my knowledge, the rest is in Vygotsky's archives: manuscripts, notes, protocols that have never been brought to daylight.
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Achilles Delari Junior <achilles_delari@hotmail.com>
> To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>; delari@uol.com.br
> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 6:59:55 PM
> Subject: [xmca] Is there something about LSV in "clinical settings"?
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> Greetings for all,
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> Let me ask for one more question. Valsiner and Van der Veer said:
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> "He [Vygotsky] was no child psychologist but a psychologist who
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> became increasingly interested in the theoretical problem of
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> development, which led him to study cultural diversity, brain
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> pathology, and other disciplines. By inclination he was a theoretical
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> psychologist. In practice, his applied work was most in clinical settings"
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> -- Valsiner and Van de Veer (2000) The social mind - construction of the idea. p 339
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> Is there any reference, file, manuscript, letter, case studies, anything, about
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> the way Vygotsky's work in clinical settings? Something about how were his
> clinical technical resources and so forth?
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> Thank you very much.
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> Achilles.
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