Overview
- Sexual boundary violations in psychotherapeutic relationships
- Reappraisal of the events at the AKJP in Heidelberg
- Empirical study
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The book provides - for the first time in the German-speaking world - a comprehensive scientific contribution to the reappraisal of sexualized violence in a psychotherapy institute. The qualitative case study takes a look at decades of abuse of power and sexualized violence by the director of an analytical institute for children and young people. It shows that the psychotherapists involved in this system do not live up to central ideas and concepts of their profession: Silence, denial, rationalization, rejection of responsibility, and ignorance of those affected have for a long time prevented the uncovering of the acts and sustainable forms of coming to terms with them. The life of the institute is characterized by a dialectical tension between the necessity of processing and the desire for undisturbed functioning. This dynamic also proves to be analogous to the problem-solving patterns of psychotherapeutic patients. The case points to fundamental problems in the fieldof psychotherapy, which are primarily related to a structural power imbalance and pronounced dependency relationships both in the context of training and in the treatment setting. The findings of this empirical study are used to derive professional and organizational ethical considerations and - based on these - to formulate concrete recommendations for the prevention of sexualized violence in psychotherapy institutes.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Dr. phil. Peter Caspari is a research associate at the Institute for Practice Research and Project Consulting (IPP) and works as a consultant and therapist at the KIBS (Kinderschutz München e.V. ) counselling centre in Munich.
Helga Dill is managing director of the Institute for Practice Research and Project Consulting (IPP) Munich.
Dr. phil. Cornelia Caspari is a psychological psychotherapist in outpatient practice and in clinical practice in Munich and Ebersberg.
Gerhard Hackenschmied is a research associate at the Institute for Practice Research and Project Consulting (IPP) in Munich.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: At some point there has to be peace and quiet!
Book Subtitle: Institutional struggle to working through the past of sexual violence and abuse of power at an institute for analytical child and adolescent psychotherapy
Authors: Peter Caspari, Helga Dill, Cornelia Caspari, Gerhard Hackenschmied
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-39785-2
Publisher: Springer Wiesbaden
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-39784-5Published: 01 February 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-39785-2Published: 31 January 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 222
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Personality and Social Psychology, Social Sciences, general