Editorial
Gábor Szőnyi
ARTICLES
Theoretical study
Ádám Kotsis, Zoltán Terenyi: Profession, science, personal knowledge — Psychoanalysis in the light of Mihály Polányi’s epistemology
Questions of practice
Lídia Berszán: Trust or prejudice? Specialist-parent cooperation in the work with families’ bringing up disabled children in Romania
Methodological study
Mária Tornyossy: The trans-breathing technique — through the lenses of Jungian theory
Questions of practice
Tom Ormay: Problems of mental health workers looking after patients of addiction – with special reference to the burnout syndrome
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Book reviews — Réka Ferenczhalmy¨István Tiringer ¨ Ferenc Túry ¨ Edit Virág¨ Ernő Wirth
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Theoretical study
Ádám Kotsis, Zoltán Terenyi: Profession, science, personal knowledge — Psychoanalysis in the light of Mihály Polányi’s epistemology
Two basic points of Michael Polányi’s epistemological innovations are in our focus.
The personal (subjective) element is central in all scientific research and discovery. In opposition to various opinions that severely question the scientific relevance and objectivity of psychoanalysis, we emphasize the inherent value of subjectivity in our understanding. Several key concepts of Polányi’s philosophy, like focal and subsidiary awareness, and tacit dimension, provide us with a good logical framework for a better understanding of the interpretation process. This framework helps us also to re-evaluate our concept of scientific knowledge and its relevance for psychoanalysis.
The therapeutic praxis of psychoanalysis can be described as having three major dimensions. Through personal training the analyst candidate acquires the theoretical (scientific) knowledge elaborated by many psychoanalytic authors. The candidate also needs reflective and relational knowledge, a necessary condition for the application of the theoretic models. The third part of the profession is something not available in explicit terms: it is the tacit knowledge that Polányi’s work is about.
Questions of practice
Lídia Berszán: Trust or prejudice? Specialist-parent cooperation in the work with families’ bringing up disabled children in Romania
There is an unavoidable expectation of the helping specialists that they exercise their profession on a high level of respect towards ethical and moral norms, at the same time on a level of thorough knowledge. This demand is especially valid in the increasingly sensitive area, which is represented by the work with disabled children and their families.
The specialists’ cooperation with the families has been made difficult not only by the inevitable fact of deficiency, but by the “suppression” and distance piled up between the institutions and civil society in several decades. For a long period of time, even after a change of regime many parents have felt the intention for cooperation with the families to be a ‘caring harassment’, and they have feared the helping specialists.
The acceptance of the parent as a partner hasn’t been smooth on the part of the profession either. The different, but no doubt complementary position of the parties — that of the specialist and the parent —gradually makes itself felt in almost every part of the work. This difference is of course natural, normal, and it is also useful both in terms of the process of developing the child and of consolidating family relations, but it requires a continuous mutual attention, open communication and a respect of equality in value between the partners.
The first part of the paper presents the history of specialist-parent cooperation in Romania; the second part sketches out the actual situation in this partnership by a statistical research.
Methodological study
Mária Tornyossy: The trans-breathing technique — through the lenses of Jungian theory
This study reviews the literature of Hungarian transpersonal psychology from 1992 till today, from the view-point of the trans-breathing technique, showing the beginnings of the Hungarian technique. We review the techniques of trans-breathing spread by Stanislav Grof’s researches as a healing/self-healing psychological work, which is done in an altered state of consciousness. We examine the basic theoretical background behind this method, describing its type of trance. The article also gives a short review of the process of its group training. We attempt to integrate the work done in trance with the Jungian theoretical and psychotherapeutic frame, and illuminate the connections with the data of baby-research in terms of effectiveness.
Questions of practice
Tom Ormay: Problems of mental health workers looking after patients of addiction – with special reference to the burnout syndrome
The use of drugs is widely used in all societies. Treatment of drug addiction is financially rewarding in the long run. The treatment requires a multi-disciplinary approach. Psychiatrists, psychotherapists, social workers, occupational therapists, nurses are needed. Many approaches are used for the treatment. I look at the application of group analysis at present, but other modalities are also touched on. First example is the method of the Regional Psychiatric Hospital in Weinslock Germany, developed in the 1980s for alcoholic inpatients. Another example is the work of the Addictology Department of the National Psychiatric and Neurological Institute Budapest. Burnout problems of workers of the human sphere came into focus in recent years. Many researches resulted in the observation that burn-out causes mental and physical decay amongst the employees, involving financial loss for institutions and agencies, and it harms the patients.
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