Sinnstiftung und Beruf – einleitende Bemerkungen

Schützeichel, Rainer; Ebertz, Michael N.

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“…Their shared logic deals with the action problems of individuals regarding their options to participate in different functional fields. This aims at treating action-related problems with the goal that individuals can behave self-reflexively towards themselves and their problems (Schützeichel, 2010, p. 129).…”

Section: Medical Psychotherapy In the Frame Of The Sociology Of The Professionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Not only is a distinct boundary between health and illness lacking, as shown above (e.g. Schützeichel, 2010), but a methodological individualisation is also part of the therapeutic treatment. Therapists claim to have no means of ‘treating’ their patient’s social situation or even the social–structural causes of their patient’s suffering (Flick, 2016, 2019).…”

Section: A Lack Of Professionalism?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Tendencies Of Deprofessionalisation?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Not only for psychotherapy but also for all medical professions, one can state a rise in what Schützeichel (2010) has called a self-expertisation of patients. Patients interpret their suffering as ‘a case for psychotherapy’, and this is based on knowledge that the psychotherapy professions have spread out into the public arena (Schützeichel, 2010, p. 138). In the interaction with the therapist in the therapeutic setting in inpatient or outpatient care, this can lead to a consumerist approach to the patient: They come for help with a self-diagnosed disease and a precise idea of the treatment they would like to receive (see Schützeichel, 2010 as well as the discussion around job burnout, see Neckel & Wagner, 2013).…”

Section: Tendencies Of Deprofessionalisation?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Patients interpret their suffering as ‘a case for psychotherapy’, and this is based on knowledge that the psychotherapy professions have spread out into the public arena (Schützeichel, 2010, p. 138). In the interaction with the therapist in the therapeutic setting in inpatient or outpatient care, this can lead to a consumerist approach to the patient: They come for help with a self-diagnosed disease and a precise idea of the treatment they would like to receive (see Schützeichel, 2010 as well as the discussion around job burnout, see Neckel & Wagner, 2013). This development is often described as proto-professionalism and found widely among professions; nevertheless, it implies some paradoxical tendencies for psychotherapy: Therapists establish a therapeutic culture that can have a destabilising effect on the profession.…”

Section: Tendencies Of Deprofessionalisation?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Theorising medical psychotherapy: Therapeutic practice between professionalisation and deprofessionalisation

Flick

2020

European Journal of Social Theory

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Psychotherapists in mental health institutions as a professional group are part of the medical system, and from this perspective, as representing an occupation that serves the public health interests, as well as those of the individual seeking help. Despite the different existing therapeutic approaches and diverse forms of therapy deriving from these approaches critical theories, however, consider psychotherapy as a profession with a specific jurisdictional claim and own highly specific interests. In contrast to most of the recent discussion around therapy culture, in this article, I argue that sociology and social theory could benefit from an understanding of psychotherapy as a profession with a separate logic and claim for jurisdiction for mental health. Moreover, I present some general trends showing that, regarding psychotherapy, we face a concurrence of a professionalisation, and simultaneously, an already ongoing deprofessionalisation. To develop my argument, I first discuss the perspectives of sociology of the psychotherapy professions. Second, I present the potential lack of professionalism in four dimensions. Third, I discuss possible tendencies of deprofessionalisation. Finally, I conclude by pointing out the importance of theorising the psychotherapy professions for medical sociology.

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Section: Medical Psychotherapy In the Frame Of The Sociology Of The Professionsmentioning

confidence: 99%