Business (wo)men, workers and lovers

Abstract

The actual economic and social crisis takes place on different levels which are described by the author. The main reason for the crises can be found in the social macro-level. Psychotherapy can influence emancipation and stabilisation of man by it’s proven meth-ods. It is important to question identity, sense and norms in therapy. And yet psychotherapists have to content themselves with this. Main consequences ofthe crises relate to the roles and states of identity: just as businessman, as worker, as lover. To face the crisis as psychotherapist makes necessary to have a contra-intuive lan-guage as well as social psychological concepts and psychological concepts just as drive theory, psychoanalysis, narcissism, (jet this is not precise enough) and attachment theory. The author describes the reaction of man, when life security vanishes or is destroyed. Keywords Dimensions of crises; role of psychotherapy; drive theory; narcissism; attachment theory; work; discrimination.