Psychotherapeutic Diagnostics

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XX

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2. Introduction

   • Heiner Bartuska, Stefan Wiesnagrotzki

   Pages 3-8

3. Diagnostic Guideline for Psychotherapists

   Pages 9-56

4. Management and Application of Diagnostics from the Different Methodological Perspectives

   Pages 57-178

5. Diagnostics in Different Professions

   • Stefan Wiesnagrotzki

   Pages 180-234

6. On the Meaning of the Fundamental Terms

   Pages 235-280

7. Psychotherapeutic Status Based on the Diagnostic Guideline for Psychotherapists

   Pages 281-286

into account in particular respect of an intercultural and increasingly g- balized world. For what is experienced as painful, deviant, or troublesome is not only subject to individual perception but also to collective states of - consciousness. The diagnostic process may be understood as a form of translation in so far as a patient’s utterances, be they verbal or nonverbal, are transferred to a new code of understanding, a process every communicator is involved in because, as we all know, there is no such thing as non-communication. If in an empathic relational ? eld we manage to decode a patient’s subjective l- guage including that of her symptoms and distress, a new language will crop up which will ? nally explain the text the patient originally came up with. D- ferent visions entail different actions. At best, translating widens the scope of options of the affected individual and, precedingly, her scope of decisi- making. Just as translating from other languages is judged successful only if the hermeneutic depth dimension of a notion has been embraced and c- veyed, the psychotherapeutic process calls for the same prudence: only if we have grasped most of the meaning and the content may we adequately int- pret psychological occurrences and bestow meaning to them.

• Containing
• Management
• Psychotherapeut
• Psychotherapie
• Training
• diagnosis
• diagnostics
• guidelines
• indication
• logotherapy
• psychiatry
• psychoanalysis
• psychodrama
• psychology
• women

• Vienna, Austria

  Heinrich Bartuska, Manfred Buchsbaumer, Gerda Mehta, Gerhard Pawlowsky, Stefan Wiesnagrotzki

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