Psychologist's fallacy

The fallacy was named by William James in the 19th century: The great snare of the psychologist is the confusion of his own standpoint with that of the mental fact about which he is making his report.Such a bias leads the observer to presuppose knowledge or skills, or lack of such, possessed by another person.These alternative statements, however, do not match what William James characterized when he named the fallacy.[1] Victor Frankl (1946) "Man's Search for Meaning": Logotherapy is neither teaching nor preaching.The logotherapist’s role consists of widening and broadening the visual eld of the patient so that the whole spectrum of potential meaning becomes conscious and visible to him.
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