Verbale Aggression

Marie-Luise Alder & Michael B. Buchholz

Kommunikative Gewalt in der Psychotherapie

Abstract: The contribution criticizes the circularity of the widespread psychological concept of aggression and proposes to replace it by a concept of violence. Hence, a meaningful way to talk of communicative violence becomes possible, the counterpart of which is communicative empathy. Illustrated by transcribed therapy sessions some situations with violence potential are described, they can originate from both, therapist and patient. For the first time mild and rough forms of empathy-dazzling are described by which especially patients complicate or disenable the therapeutic empathy task. Communicative violence proves as “interruptor” of empathy in the special ...