Basic attitudes in therapeutic relationships

Authors

  • Walter Pieringer

Abstract

The thesis of a psychosomatic background common to all approaches to self-experience is investigated on the basic of the empirically confirmed awareness that self-exploration concepts are model therapeutic relationships. Welding depth-psychological, humanist and cognitive aspects of the discussion on self-exploration together, a genetic differentiation of basic attitudes in therapy is presented which has evolved as an updated version of the classical psychosomatic theory of the four temperaments: 1. The aesthetic basic attitude 2. The ethical basic attitude 3. The economic basic attitude 4. The erotic basic attitude These basic attitudes, are seen both as bio-psychosocial units and as genetic facets of life, and they are discussed as guide lines for definitive qualitative criteria for the heterogeneous self-experience concepts in the psychotherapy movement.

Keywords
Therapeutic relationship, self-experience concepts, basic attitudes, psychotherapy.

Author Biography

Walter Pieringer

O. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Walter Pieringer, geb. 1942, Vorstand der Universitätsklinik für Medizinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Lehranalytiker im österreichischen Verein für Individualpsychologie. Forschungsschwerpunkte: Psychosomatik, medizinische Anthropologie, Methodologie in der Psychotherapie.

Korrespondenz: Prof. Dr. Walter Pieringer, Universitätsklinik für Medizinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Auenbrugger Platz 39, A-8036 Graz

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Published

1995-07-01

How to Cite

Pieringer, W. (1995). Basic attitudes in therapeutic relationships. Psychotherapie-Wissenschaft, 3(3), 115–127. Retrieved from https://psychotherapie-wissenschaft.info/article/view/669

Issue

No. 3 (1995): Psychotherapie Forum 3/3 (veröffentlicht bei Springer Wien New York)

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Original Work

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