Ausschnitt eines Briefwechsels zwischen einem kognitiven Verhaltenstherapeuten und einer Vertreterin der „klassischen Gesprächspsychotherapie: Prozessanalyse einer Psychotherapie mit einem emotional verwahrlosten Mädchen

Abstract

Part of an exchange of letters between a cognitive behavioral therapist and a representative of the “classical client-centered therapy”. A member of the editor’s board of PERSON proposed this exchange of letters after noticing Karsten Wittke’s interest in engaging Eva-Maria Biermann-Ratjen into discussions concerning the essence oft he PCA. Karsten Wittke takes Eva-Maria Biermann-Ratjen for a “classical” nondirective client-centered therapist and is looking for answers to questions like: “What about the compatibility of the PCA and giving advices or other process directives to the client?” Eva-Maria Biermann-Ratjen stresses that
the PCA is an abstraction of the characteristics of the therapeutic process, which is a relationship — and not the description of therapeutic interventions.