Editorial
Tibor Cece Kiss
ARTICLES
Invited lecture
Mónika Szabó: Criticism of authority, the authenticity of criticism, or what has social psychology to do in therapy?
Questions of practice
Sándor Lisznyai: Drug consultation – a case study
Methodological study
György Schermann: Short dynamic couple therapy – focusing on couple relationship
The way we work…
Erzsébet Adrigán: Who can eat of the candy?
Magdolna Barcy: Comment to the case study of Erzsébet Adrigán: „Who can eat of the candy?”
Emese Kőtörő: Comment to the case study of Erzsébet Adrigán: „Who can eat of the candy?”
János Pinterics: Comment to the case study of Erzsébet Adrigán: „Who can eat of the candy?”
Erika Szautner: Comment to the case study of Erzsébet Adrigán: „Who can eat of the candy?”
PROFESSIONAL LIFE
Essay
László Tringer: The professional life of Béla Buda
Interview
Ten years after – Gábor Szőnyi and Lili Valkó are talking with István Bitter
Discussions, comments
Debate: Being formal or informal? How to address each other in a therapeutic setting or during a consultation – Veronika Ferencz ¨ Viktor Gaál ¨ János Igács
Reflexions – Alpár Lehel Simon about the book of Andrea Ritter
Reflexions – Nóra Vedres about the prestige of child therapy
News
Reports
Conferences – Tamás Dávid ¨ Hajna Endresz, Tibor Cece Kiss ¨ József Krékits ¨ Vera Kunos ¨ Orsolya Emese Páll
Book reviews – Katalin Sarudi ¨ Márta Takácsy ¨ István Tiringer
Lists of professional books and periodicals
Professional programs
Editorial announcements
Invited lecture
Mónika Szabó:
Criticism of authority, the authenticity of criticism, or what has social psychology to do in therapy?
The theoretical writing is based on the opening lecture of the 10th conference of the professional journal Psychotherapy entitled „Authenticity or authority? Authenticity and authority”. Its main intention is to invite the reader for a self-examination through analysing the questions of authority, interpreting the concept along the aspects of power and authenticity. Backed by notions of critical social psychology, its starting point is that injustice operating on the level of society often appears in the therapeutic space as well. A cardinal question is how these „system-level” consequences alter reality in the interpersonal dimension of therapy. In order to illustrate the phenomena the writing operates with the problem of gender roles, and it shows how bitterness is constructed, taking the case of the „unhappy woman” as an example. Using traditional gender roles as a normative frame, the „cause” of the problem is frequently found in the client, making her change her position. Regarding traditional roles from a critical point of view, using progressive ideas, it may also be stated that the „system is faulty”. Beyond the specific example, the writing argues for the fact that the self-reflective, always renewing examination of our own frame of interpretation must be the ultimate ingredient of authenticity. The success of a therapy can be measured in several ways, however it remains a vital question whether we choose the smoother way that legitimates the all-time social system, or the more rugged one which might be as liberating for the individual as it is critical. The debate of such questions is a common duty of all of us, especially if we are committed to social responsibility as well.
Key-words: social psychology — power — authority — sexism — gender roles
Questions of practice
Sándor Lisznyai:
Drug consultation – a case study
Drug consultation – a case study
The case study describes the therapeutic process with a young client whose and substance addictions was treated in the framework of an initial phase supportive psychotherapy in our university counselling centre.
The study introduces the institutional background of university counselling and its relation to clinical interventions and psychotherapy.
The study shows the vicissitudes of the multi-causal addiction system: the sexual-sadistic paraphilia, the MMORPG based internet addiction and THC use altogether.
The counselling process is interpreted as an initial phase of a four-stage intervention process that creates the pathway to therapeutic community based rehabilitation systems. The four stages are the initial counselling process, the therapeutic community based rehabilitation, the maintenance systems after rehabilitation and finally a distal cause oriented dynamic psychotherapy process.
The study proposes a framework for sexual addiction as a reaction to early years’ isolation and its effects on sexual development.
The study shows some elements of the diagnostics, causal models and the institutional background of drug consultation.
Keywords: counselling – supportive psychotherapy – behavioural addictions – sexual addictions – drug rehabilitation
Methodological study
György Schermann:
Short dynamic couple therapy – focusing on couple relationship
The aim of this study is to present how the approach of dynamic short therapy can be used in couple therapy. Of course, the article does not contain the complete elaboration of short dynamic couple therapy; at the same time, it wishes to become a useful starting point to such efforts. In order to accomplish this, the creation of a couple therapy focus is in the centre of this study.
The elaboration of the conception of therapy focus in couple therapy of dynamic approach in couple therapy means a more complicated task than in an individual therapy with the same approach. The most striking difficulty is the quantitative change: in couple therapy, not one but two patients present themselves, and both bring their own internal conflicts. Still, the real difficulty lies qualitative change: besides the intra-psychic level, the problem appears on the interpersonal level as well. The separation and interconnection of individual dynamic and couple dynamic brings theoretical and practical difficulties in the course of partner relationship therapy. The article makes a proposal for the solution with the help of a partner relationship focus-graph.
A partner relationship focus-graph is an outline or summary of the partner relationship, and the way the members of the couple experience their marriage. Because of its transparency it can become a tool that is easy to use in partner relationship therapy, as well as during the supervision: it can help the further analysis of the dynamic of partner relationship.
Keywords: focus-sentence – individual focus-graph – partner relationship focus-graph – mutual projective identification
The way we work…
Erzsébet Adrigán:
Who can eat of the candy?
Magdolna Barcy:
Comment to the case study of Erzsébet Adrigán: „Who can eat of the candy?”
Emese Kőtörő:
Comment to the case study of Erzsébet Adrigán: „Who can eat of the candy?”
János Pinterics:
Comment to the case study of Erzsébet Adrigán: „Who can eat of the candy?”
Erika Szautner:
Comment to the case study of Erzsébet Adrigán: „Who can eat of the candy?”
We continue with the “The way we work” column. In contrast to the usual case histories the series shows how the therapist works and how he thinks during work via detailed notes of therapeutic sessions and consultations. The form: the presentation of the actual flow of one or two sessions, including details like what the therapist said or did, when, how he thought about it, what motivated his interactions. The history and problems of the patient only the shortest and necessary information is given. The therapeutic form and method used (the setting) is shortly introduced. Of course all this done according to the requirements of professional ethic. The length is 10-25000 character. The presentation of the case/consultation is given out to three presenter (usually training therapists) for each case. One of them is an expert in the same modality as the author, while the other two are form different modalities. The presenters are asked to describe how they saw and understood the session, the therapeutic work; to what extent it agrees or differs from their own way of thinking. Each presentation can be between 4-8000 characters.
In the present column entitled: “Who can eat of the candy?” the starting point is given by Erzsébet Adrigán, psychoanalyst, psychoanalytically oriented child psychotherapist. In contrast to the previous examples four presenters have been asked, because child therapy differs from the world of adults and the psychoanalytic approach is separately introduced as a method. The presenters are: Magdolna Barcy training group analyst, training family therapist, training mediator; Emese Kőtörő training integrative psychotherapist; János Pinterics individual psychologist psychotherapist; Erika Szautner Jungian psychoanalytic psychotherapist.
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