Imposing discussions, all kinds of inadequacies and the core question that remains unanswered: Does psychotherapy really work as text medicine?

Reply to the responses by Jürgen Kriz and Gerhard Burda to Kurt Greiner’s «Psychotherapy as text medicine»

Authors

  • Kurt Greiner

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30820/1664-9583-2025-1-67

Keywords:

psychotherapy, text medicine, functional paradigm, hermeneutics, textology

Abstract

This text is a duplicate of the two articles by Jürgen Kriz (2024) and Gerhard Burda (2024), which were published as responses to Kurt Greiner’s essay ‹Psychotherapy as Text Medicine. An attempt at a general functional paradigm› (2024). Although the two critical essays represent theoretically well-founded discussions of the highest scientific quality, the two replies are teeming with gross misunderstandings and confusions and one repeatedly encounters omissions, distortions, unintentional confirmations and misconceptions. Furthermore, both article critics ignore the essential question of whether psychotherapeutic practice actually works in terms of text medicine and thus miss the actual core of the subject of discussion, namely the proposed text medicine practice formula.

Author Biography

Kurt Greiner

Kurt Greiner ist Professor für Psychotherapiewissenschaft an der Sigmund Freud PrivatUniversität (SFU) in Wien. Seit 2007 lehrt und forscht er auf den Gebieten der Psychotherapiewissenschaftstheorie und der Experimentellen Psychotherapiewissenschaft (Psychotextologie).
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Published

2025-04-03

How to Cite

Greiner, K. (2025). Imposing discussions, all kinds of inadequacies and the core question that remains unanswered: Does psychotherapy really work as text medicine? Reply to the responses by Jürgen Kriz and Gerhard Burda to Kurt Greiner’s «Psychotherapy as text medicine». Psychotherapie-Wissenschaft, 15(1), 67–71. https://doi.org/10.30820/1664-9583-2025-1-67

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 1 (2025): Intersubjektives Erleben in der Psychotherapie

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Debatte

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