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While the current discussion on new forms of quality assurance (QA) in outpatient psychotherapy, exemplified by the new german »DeQS«-guidelines, is dominated by issues of outcome quality, a new model is introduced that expands the QA discussion to include quality monitoring for the exploration and management of process quality in psychotherapy. The so-called »circle model« (www.therapiefeedback.de) is a transdisciplinary, digital, case-oriented, intersubjective, and reflective model for capturing the process quality of outpatient psychotherapy (quality monitoring). The circle model enables both therapists and patients to provide individual feedback on the shared psychotherapeutic process through self-reporting according to scientific quality criteria. Both response behaviors (patient and therapist) can then be superimposed in a color-coded circular network diagram, allowing the therapy process to be intersubjectively reflected upon during joint consideration. The construction of the feedback axes is theory- and research-based. The model is applicable across all four german psychotherapeutic guideline procedures (psychodynamically oriented therapy, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, cognitive behavioral psychotherapy, systemic psychotherapy). The specificity of the intersubjective approach emphasizes that the understanding of psychotherapeutic processes does not occur in isolation but is rooted in a network of relationships and social exchange characterized by reciprocity, shared meanings, exchange of experiences, co-construction of reality, and empathy. Important impulses for potential adjustments and management of the therapy process for QA are made possible. The aim is to develop an innovative (digital) instrument that optimizes the psychotherapeutic process from within the process itself (quality monitoring through process feedback) and contributes to greater active participation of patients in the psychotherapy process. By collecting data from multi-level response scales, which are then interactively integrated and jointly reflected upon, the model methodologically combines quantitative and qualitative approaches. Initial qualitative results from an exploratory pilot study are presented. The results provide initial insights into the utility of the model for QA in outpatient psychotherapy, with a focus on process quality. The compatibility of the system with established peer-reviewed QA systems, such as peer review (»intervision«), supervision, and quality circles, is emphasized. The necessity for further and systematic research is discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Since counseling has become a professional form of intervention, a special repertoire of methods and tools seems essential for the process but is challenging as counselors persist in unilateral perspectives which is excluding an openness towards understanding the clients experiences. This article documents the trial of transfering a research tool (phenomenological vignettes) actually applied in school education research to a councelor-client-setting. Therefore the intersubjective happenigs are not only contextualized in phenomenology, a philosophical movement. The researcher and counselor guided by this phenomenological methodology step by step turns it to an explorationdesign specifically created for counselling processes. Thus in a few counseling sessions the counselor makes – beyond the known methdocial counselling repertoire – use of an experiential research attitude and shapes vignettes about experiences with the client. To get a polyperspectival viewpoint on these experiences the researcher and two other recipients of the vignettes deepen their interpretation in form of vignettereadings (Vignettenlektüren). Concluding the article reflects possibilities, challenges and limitations of using vignette research to widen the perspective in counseling processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The task of counselling as an identity support space is called and the history of this form of › ego identity ‹ is summarized in keywords and requirements that result from this construct in a postmodern society are named. In the second step, authors and models of intersubjectivity are referred to in keywords in order to present thoughts and aspects of a concept of the holistic field. The consequences resulting from this idea of the holistic field are reflected on the basis of two cases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Starting point of the author's considerations is the enormously increased demand for psychotherapy places also among adolescents and young adults in times of pandemic and other permanent crises. This high demand could be met by an increased use of psychodynamic short-term therapy. Its administration should be adapted to today's intersubjective view and the current state of knowledge of related sciences like neurobiology, learning, memory, and developmental research.Based on extracts the author describes the psychodynamic short-term therapy of an 18-yearold male adolescent, illustrating the benefits of the inclusion of body-language, imaginative and practicing experiences. She suggests that time has come for the many »treasures« of non-analytic approaches to be lifted and become integrated into psychodynamic therapies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Torture and exile shatter a person's sense of self, their trust in others, and produce isolation and an array of post-traumatic sequelae. This article explores the experiences of therapists working with torture survivors at a London-based charity. It explores what, for them, constitutes the process of bearing witness to narratives of trauma in therapeutic encounters. An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) was employed, using semi-structured interviews. Analysis was underpinned by intersubjectivity and psychoanalytic social theory. The findings illuminate the significance of engaging in affective relationships of political solidarity and validation against the backdrop of the structural disavowal of the 'hostile environment' in the UK context. Witnessing was described as the interplay of 'staying with' people's trauma without attempting to 'fix' or pathologize. Participants described witnessing multi-dimensional aspects of a person. The article concludes by discussing the implications of witnessing for therapists working with survivors of torture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Der Artikel zielt darauf ab, die Intersubjektivitätstheorien dreier Philosophen aus verschiedenen Epochen und Traditionen der Philosophie zu analysieren, nämlich J. G. Fichte und G. W. F. Hegel des Deutschen Idealismus und Axel Honneth der Kritischen Theorie. Fichte zeigt in der Grundlage des Naturrechts, dass die Individualität ein wechsel-und gemeinschaftlicher Begriff ist, und dass das Individuum durch einen Anstoß von außen dazu gebracht wird, von seiner Freiheit Gebrauch aufzuforderen. Im Rechtsverhältnis des sozialen Bereichs wird diese Freiheit jedoch nur negativ sein, und das Recht wird als Zwangsrecht verstanden werden. Dieser nur äußere Charakter der Freiheit in Fichtes Naturrecht wird später von Hegel in seinen Schriften in Frankfurt und Jena kritisiert werden. Hegel argumentiert, dass die Gesellschaft die eigentliche Wirksamkeit der Freiheit ist, dass die Individuen das Allgemeine bereits in sich tragen. Später wird diese Intersubjektivität in der Phänomenologie des Geistes mit den Unterscheidungen gegeben sein, die das Selbstbewusstsein im Prozess der Bildung des Geistes durchlaufen muss. Mit Axel Honneth gewinnt die Intersubjektivität einen empirischeren Charakter, durch den Kampf um Anerkennung vollzieht sich der Prozess der Identitätsbildung in immer komplexeren Formen des Verhältnisses zum Anderen im familiären Bereich, im Rechtsverhältnis und in der Solidarität. Diese drei Konzeptionen von Intersubjektivität werden in ihren Beziehungen zueinander, in ihren Unterscheidungen und in der Art und Weise, wie sie sich gegenseitig überwinden und ergänzen, analysiert, um zu zeigen, wie Intersubjektivität und Anerkennung Prinzipien der Praktischen Philosophie sind. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes the discourse-pragmatic functions of doze ... ('many thanks') in spoken Cantonese discourse. Two functions of doze were found which have not previously been described. The audio/video data comes from spoken corpora and consists of 107 instances. The study shows that doze is a multifunctional discourse marker: doze functions as a marker of response to tangible receiving, response to congratulations or a compliment, response for declining an invitation, and response to unexpected promise making. This study suggests that doze is originally a stative verb of expressing gratitude; it retains the meaning of thanking and encodes during conversational interaction the attitudes between the speaker and the listener toward the beneficial event. Some grammaticalization effects involving conventional inferencing are witnessed and demonstrate the evolution of a stative verb to a beneficial reception marker via conversational development. This paper also captures the subtle differences between doze and mgoi ... in Hong Kong Cantonese. It contributes to the understanding of grammaticalization, Emergent Grammar, and politeness in the Asian context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The use of FaceTime and other technologies as a substitute for in-person caregiving at the end of life has become more common in pandemic times. Despite widespread reliance on technologically mediated experiences to alleviate social isolation and to connect people in moments of crisis and vulnerability, being on screen with another person is not equivalent to „really being there“. In this essay I consider social interaction with those at or near the end of life as a phenomenological concern, in part as a way to come to grips with my own experience of the death of loved ones. The feeling of insufficiency I experienced using FaceTime to connect with a dying person in the ICU can be articulated through the language of social phenomenology, which describes intercorporeality as integral to direct social experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aim: This preliminary longitudinal study examined timing features and type of interaction between infant boys and their mothers with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms Method: Ten infants and their mothers with ADHD symptoms and 10 control dyads were video recorded at home during free play interactions when infants were 2‐, 4‐, 6‐, and 9‐month old. Microanalysis of the video recordings was carried out to assess synchronization, turn‐taking, and type of interaction. Infants' temperament was also assessed Results: ADHD dyads showed shorter synchronization at 2 months and shorter duration of Joint Attention. Partial least squares regression analysis revealed that infant's ability for Joint Attention is predicted mainly by duration of maternal behavior as well as by earlier forms of communication, that is, protoconversations. Conclusion: The data from our preliminary study suggest that mothers with ADHD symptoms may have difficulties maintaining their behavior for enough time possibly due to the core symptoms of the disorder, that is, inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity. This maternal deficit seems to affect temporal coordination with their infants and maybe the development of more complex forms of interaction. Clinical implications of these findings are also discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Betrachtet man die gegenwärtigen philosophischen Arbeiten über die Natur und den Status von kollektiver Intentionalität und Wir-Intentionen, fällt auf, wie viel Aufwand betrieben wird, um die Struktur gemeinsamer Handlungen zu analysieren und um nachzuweisen, ob die Intention, beispielsweise einen gemeinsamen Spaziergang zu unternehmen oder das Haus gemeinsam zu streichen, auf irgendeine Form der Ich-Intentionalität reduziert werden kann oder nicht. Viel weniger Arbeiten haben sich der Analyse geteilter Stimmungen und Emotionen gewidmet. Dies ist nicht nur deshalb bedauerlich, weil das Teilen von Emotionen (emotional sharing) in der Entwicklung aller Wahrscheinlichkeit nach gemeinsamen Handlungen vorangeht und logisch betrachtet grundlegender ist, sondern auch, weil es eine Art des Zusammenseins mit Anderen konstituiert, die wir untersuchen müssen, wenn wir die Natur des Wir verstehen wollen. Mein vorrangiges Ziel in diesem Beitrag ist es, eine Antwort auf die folgende Frage zu geben: Setzt die Wir-Erfahrung, die Erfahrung, Teil eines Wir zu sein, die Differenzierung von Selbsterfahrung und Fremderfahrung voraus, geht sie ihr voraus, erhält sie sie aufrecht, oder hebt sie sie auf? Um diese Frage zu beantworten, werde ich das Teilen von Emotionen näher betrachten und Quellen heranziehen, die in der gegenwärtigen Sozialontologie zu häufig ignoriert werden, nämlich Einsichten, die sich in der klassischen Phänomenologie und in der gegenwärtigen Forschung zu sozialer Kognition finden lassen. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The essay compares the two most original philosophical doctrines of the Trinity, namely the Augustinian and the Hegelian one. It focuses on their concepts of the philosophy of religion, their epistemologies of religion, their doctrines of the mind, and their conceptions of the immanent Trinity. It ends with a sketch of an alternative theory of Trinity that finds the best approach to the Trinity not in the individual mind but in intersubjective relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Social Interaction, Second-Person-Perspective and Bodily Knowledge Psychotherapy is an intersubjective event. In most cases, intersubjectivity is defined in such a way that every feeling, thought and action of every person present is always integrated into the context of the behaviour of the others and thus not independent of their behaviour. Intersubjectivity, however, goes beyond the determination of the participation of two or more subjects in shaping the situation. Phenomena such as the "in-between" and the interaction between the subjects have to be conceptualized, and the means and methods they rely on to regulate their mutual behavior must be described as well as the role their bodily behavior and the associated "intercorporeality" play in this. What practical-therapeutic consequences this may have for psychotherapy – whether in individual settings or in groups – can hardly be assessed at present. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Within contemporary psychoanalysis the concept of interpretation has become increasingly unclear. On this background the author suggests to conceptualize the specific character of psychoanalytic interpretation by three dimensions that he found by reflecting upon the work of Paula Heimann and Wolfgang Loch: The first dimension, the intersubjectivity of the interpreting process, imbeds interpretation within the analytic field and the transference relationship. The second dimension, considering the ›therefore‹ of psychic action, presents the nuclear thought of psychoanalytic interpretation. The third is an evocative dimension. It emphasizes the therapeutic effect of interpretation, stimulating the patient's growth. These dimensions are being discussed and finally illustrated by a clinical vignette. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper deals with the development of theory in German psychoanalysis after 1945. The opening to international psychoanalysis as a return to Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis and the influx of American ego psychology reversed the psychoanalytic thinking of the time, combined with a renunciation of the unique forms of depth-psychological psychotherapy and psychoanalysis developed at the time and a drying up of a fruitful dialogue with philosophical and anthropological thinking. The promising theoretical approaches associated with this were lost. These breaks, transitions and theoretical new developments as well as their generational anchoring are traced in detail. A generational look at this development can then also shed light on another break in the formation of theory that occurred in the 1980s and -90s in the course of the confrontation with the Nazi past and had the character of a transgenerational conflict. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The discussion of Tenbrink's paper and further comments on the topic will highlight the positive effects of the relational psychoanalytic movement on Adlerian Psychology as well as the psychotherapeutic attitude as a whole. The Adlerian approach to the psychotherapeutic attitude has been extended, expanded and enriched through its connection to relational psychoanalysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Die gegenwärtige Liebesordnung wird in zeitgenössischen Theatertexten meist als (scheiterndes) Anerkennungsverhältnis inszeniert. Der folgende Beitrag geht daher der Frage nach, ob und wie die romantische Liebesordnung Strukturen zur Verfügung stellt, die Anerkennung ermöglichen, oder inwiefern sie aufgrund verschiedener geschlechtlicher Existenzweisen einer möglichen Anerkennung gar im Wege steht. Unter Rückgriff auf feministische Theorien der Intersubjektivität wird mit dem Verhältnis der Mimesis das Modell eines Anerkennungsverhältnisses skizziert, das sowohl die Anerkennung einer gegenseitigen Verwiesenheit als auch die unhintergehbare Differenz de_r Anderen1 berücksichtigt.

Es mehren sich die Selbstprofile, die Online-Selfies, die Bildergalerien, die Videos auf den Blogs, Websites und in den sozialen Netzwerken. Die digitale Technik bleibt den menschlichen Subjekten nicht äußerlich. Sie animiert, fordert, verlockt zur Selbstdarstellung; sie verbündet sich mit tiefen Sehnsüchten und Ängsten. Sie schürt den Kampf um Aufmerksamkeit. Der Beitrag rückt die digital gestützte Selbstinszenierung junger NetzakteurInnen ins Zentrum. Er stellt Strategien der Selbstinszenierung dar, fragt nach den Motiven und analysiert das Wechselspiel zwischen den Subjektivierungspraktiken und der Logik digitaler Medien. Er wirft die Frage auf, ob sich unter der Regie digitaler Medien narzisstische Tendenzen mehren. Darüber hinaus blendet er den aktuellen gesellschaftlich-kulturellen Wandel ein und versucht, das Geschehen im Netz auf die mit diesem Wandel verbundenen Herausforderungen zu beziehen. Medientechnologische Innovationen, so die These, gehen Hand in Hand mit einem sozialen Wandel, der sich auch in veränderten Subjektivierungsprozessen widerspiegelt. Die Analyse erfolgt aus einer medien- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Sie bezieht sich u.a. auf Ergebnisse der FWF-Studie "Communicative Publics in Cyberspace", in die NetzakteurInnen aus sieben europäischen Ländern, aus vier arabischen Ländern und aus den USA einbezogen waren.

Sibling relationships are not adequately conceptualized, treated, and theoretically questioned in their importance for the development of the individual in group therapies. The vertical transference level seems to be more familiar to most therapists than the horizontal one. Oedipus or Cain? In addition to the vertical transference as well as the well known Oedipus complex there can often be subliminal horizontal transference relationships among "siblings". The processing of this transference is often more helpful than that of the oedipal relation to the group leader. In addition to envy and rivalry with the sibling, siblings can also provide supportive and developmental benefits, which can compensate for a bad relationship to their primary objects. Sibling conflicts are initially much stronger in groups thanin individual settings, and their processing is fundamental to the development of the individual in the group but also for the other members who identify in and with each other. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author discusses the unexpected results of the single-case study, examining the connection between therapeutic interventions, the development of the therapeutic relationship and the reflective self-awareness in the patient. In two of the three single-case studies, the connection between therapeutic interventions and the reactions of the patient were found to be highly significant, pointing to a reciprocal influence between patient and therapist. The author attempts to understand these research results using an intersubjective approach. The author discusses a transcribed section of the therapy in which the reflective self-awareness of the patient has a positive influence on the therapeutic interventions that follow (thus differing from results that point to the opposite conclusion). This micro-sequence is then interpreted using Beebe and Lachmann's concept of »dyadic systems«. In this theory, the regulation of the self and the interaction is a two-person, reciprocal process which can be illustrated with the metaphor of the dance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Migration is a normal, anthropological phenomenon which has increased in recent years. However, migration means being uprooted and losing one’s home. The internal and external adaptation that is necessary to deal with this is often overlooked. Psychoanalysis needs to take a stance against today's social norm which seems to take mobility and globalisation for granted. The analyst needs to keep a close eye on social and cultural differences and find ways of dealing with the strangeness, the distance and the lack of knowledge involved in such differences. Case material is presented from the treatment of two patients who had suffered traumatic relationship experiences. Long-term abuse in relationships leads to negative internalisations and identifications. Such trauma can in my opinion only be worked through within the therapeutic relationship. The therapeutic stance that is needed is what is termed the intersubjective movement which according to Ermann (2014) is characterised by the paradigms of relating and relationship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author presents a survey of the development of Large Group theory. Older publications (e. g. Kreeger, Turqet, also drawing on Freud, M. Klein, Bion) describe the chaoticaggressive, psychosis-near character of the Large Group, a certain contrast between the seemingly "benign" Small Group and the „destructive„ Large Group and a predominantly dyadic relationship between the conductor and the Large Group. More recent publications (Wilke, Island, formerly also de Maré) underline the creative-constructive potential of the Large Group and the intersubjective interweaving of the conductor and the Large Group. Experiences with a conductor-pair in the daily Large Group of the Altaussee workshop instead of one conductor are discussed. The author pleads for the application of modern intersubjective theorizing also to the Large Group. The analytic attitude and intervention technique would be changed: the traditional position of strict neutrality, anonymity and abstinence as well as the emphasis on whole-group interpretations would be substituted by a more open stance that does not hide the subjectivity of the conductor(s) but rather reveals and uses it to promote the analytic process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]