Verwickeltes ent-wickeln und weiter-entwickeln: Ein Dialog

Abstract

Developing and Evolving the Intricated. A Dialogue. Based on the everyday experience as psychotherapists, that Rogers’ concepts thanks to their high degree of abstraction, on one hand offer a great deal of freedom and a coherent framework for reflection and orientation, but on the other their abstractness bears the danger that attitude and action are mixed up and the therapists are left alone in the very concrete therapeutic situation, the two authors enter into dialogue. In their opinion, this difficulty has to do with a stop in the concept formation process of PZA, which they locate historically in the Wisconsin Project. The disputes at that time meant that Eugene Gendlin’s Experiencing concept, which could provide a handle for the concrete situation, was never really incorporated into PZA concepts.