The necessary conditions of therapeutic interaction
Schurmans, D.
Acta Psychiatrica Belgica 82(2): 195-215
1982
ISSN/ISBN: 0300-8967 PMID: 7180557 Document Number: 189241
Without reducing psychopathological phenomena to a sole dimension, the author explores the fruitfulness of relational hypothesis. With reference, namely to Bateson, Bourdieu, Lewin, Pankow, he defines operational concepts which put into connection human communication, sociological context and genesis of personality. Founding upon thorough case studies, the authors proposes a relational model which delineates the pathological behavior. This model emphasizes the relational rules which define the value and the signification of behaviors, the social position of individuals and their identity. Therefrom, the author describes the characteristics any relational therapeutic environment has to own. He considers as essential the patients reinsertion into meaningfull exchange circuits, in order to restore the sense and the value of what patient is and what he does.