PSZICHOTERÁPIA
A professional journal of practice based on psychotherapeutic methods
A quarterly publication, 34rd year, issue 2, May 2025.
Table of contents
Editorial
Henrietta Benkő, Lili Valkó
STUDIES
Theoretical study
Anikó Hirsch: Reflections on child psychotherapy training in a complex-integrative approach
Theoretical study
Noémi Zsuzsanna Mészáros: Adler, the neglected prophet –
A brief overview of individual psychology and its influence on related approaches
Essay study
Zoltán Terenyi: Looking out from the bottom of the hole: the local value of the group
WORKSHOP
Workshop study
Máté Szondy, Ágnes Magyary, Noémi Mészáros, Ágnes Zsila: Artificial Intelligence in Psychotherapy
Workshop report
Márta Biró-Porkoláb, Gergely Biró: We say the same thing, only in local dialect.
Summary of a child psychotherapy methodological roundtable discussion
PROFESSIONAL LIFE
Debate
Does Hungary need a service provision network in psychotherapy, and if so, why is it not included in public funding? – Katalin Csigó
Quality ensurance and supervision – Éva Sifter
Ethical dilemmas of therapeutic practice 47th: Szilvia Ternován ♦ Dániel Trixler ♦ Ágnes Dósa ♦ József Kovács
Reviews
Report on the Psychotherapy Council Association’s delegates’ meeting
Conferences – Gergely Biró ♦ István Tiringer ♦ Tímea Torzsa ♦ Judit Pál ♦ Henrietta Benkő
Book reviews – István Tiringer ♦ Ferenc Túry ♦ Márta Varga
List of professional books and periodicals
Professional programs
Editorial announcements
STUDIES
THEORETICAL STUDY
Anikó Hirsch
Reflections on child psychotherapy training in a complex-integrative approach
One of the most important issues in our professional life is the possibility and future of independent/semi-independent training of child psychotherapists. At present, there are only a few training, and professionals working with children can only pass the psychotherapist qualification by defending an individual therapy case study with adults (in some training centres with older adolescents). The aim of this paper is to summarise the aspects that can be taken into account in the design of a training programme for child psychotherapists. These include the specificities of paediatric therapies and care in this country, professional and systemic needs. The theory and practice of complex-integrative child therapy represents an approach that is generally applicable to child therapy methods. These include a systems approach, working within a socio-cultural context, and a client-centred approach that focuses on the specific needs and strengths of the individual. The need for specialised training in the field of child psychotherapy has been raised by the epidemiological changes in child psychiatric disorders and the resulting new therapeutic needs. Disharmonious personality development is an increasingly common problem in mental healthcare, which affects the adult care system in terms of prognosis and requires the use of therapeutic methods that have not been dominant in child psychotherapy in the past (for example schema therapy, transference-focused therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, mentalization-based therapy). The main aim of this paper is to continue the joint reflection and work of the professionals involved in order to develop a professional training for child psychotherapists.
Keywords: child psychotherapist training – complex-integrative child therapy – disharmonious personality development
THEORETICAL STUDY
Noémi Zsuzsanna Mészáros
Adler, the neglected prophet –
A brief overview of individual psychology and its influence on related approaches
Alfred Adler has left a defining legacy for the practice of contemporary psychotherapy and psychological counseling. His perspective on human nature appears to be reflected in numerous approaches that later became widespread, even as his name itself seems to gradually fade into the background. By examining the direct and indirect fertilizing influence of Adlerian theories, the paper also explores conceptual parallels with existential psychology, positive psychology, and solution-focused therapy. In this context, several key concepts of individual psychology are scrutinized through the lens of these conceptual connections, including life style, feelings of inferiority, striving for superiority, the creative self, encouragement, social interest, and the holistic approach, and their possible placements within later psychotherapeutic traditions. The primary aim of this study is to ensure that Adler and his work find their rightful place within the grand family tree of psychology.
Keywords: Adler – individual psychology – psychotherapy – legacy
ESSAY STUDY
Zoltán Terenyi
Looking out from the bottom of the hole: the local value of the group
Locality is the primary scene of social life, the framework of solidarity, the sieve through which members of a community can gain knowledge about societal belonging, inclusion/exclusion, or differentiation. Late modernity modifies the definition of locality in as much as it allows the individual to belong to more than one locality and to identify with one which differs from the scene of their everyday life (Niedermüller 2006). The value of locality lies in the knowledge of the relational network as a whole. This knowledge is put into play by functioning groups, teams, which can validate the ability and legitimation of the participants. This text illustrates by some examples the process of how legitimation, or the development of legitimacy necessarily collides with power. Locality is necessarily discursive; its experiential background is the dynamics of the median groups. The online psychotherapy ward which was founded in the COVID era at the Clinic of Psychiatry in Szeged took over the function of the previously physically existing ward, creating a particular locality which was able to reconstruct the essential functioning of the inpatient psychotherapy ward (Tóth 2021). The experiences of the complex online group psychotherapy program confirm that the group is really able to configure its own place. On the other hand the thickness of group work does not trouble, but rather facilitates the process of integration. The metaphor of the stack/hole introduced in the paper is complex and contraddictive. Through this we can grasp how convictions revealing themselves at the professional level and interpretations of personal experiences are connected to each other. The subjective descriptions of the parts of complex matrix can provide a framework for all of this.
Keywords: suiting – local legitimacy – neighbourhood – online groups
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