Macht im Zwangskontext: Macht und Gegenmacht in Psychotherapie und Sozialer Arbeit.

In psychotherapy and in social work, especially in the context of involuntary treatment, powerand the forces set up to counteract power play an important role. Above all in the work withthose who have a legal guardian as well as, for example, in psychotherapy with addicts that is carried out according to a court order, what counts is that the person can have an inner sense of power over his or her own actions which is greater or at least equal to the power from without. In the following paper, case studies are presented that show this more or less clearly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]