Deset těžkých hříchů psychoterapie (Ten Severe Sins of Psychotherapy)

Abstract

Author points out some thematic spheres that are being ignored in psychotherapy and threaten its peculiarity as well as determination. They are as follows: 1. Truthfulness, frankness and honesty towards oneself as a way to recovery in contrast to only disappearance of mental illness symptoms and their elimination. 2. Reduction of a human being and his illness to natural-scientifically defined organism opposed to complete and direct understanding of a human who lives the life in original world of his/her authentic experience. 3. Insufficient consideration of moral aspects of mental illness. 4. Subordination to natural science paradigms and abstract universalities in contrast to the science of the singular. 5. Alienation of psychotherapeutic languages from immediate experience and from its result in expressing in colloquial language of given culture. 6. Explanation working as deepening and understanding opposed to explanation reducing to something predetermined, final and in a similar way closed theoretical systems. 7. Banalization of psychotherapy by those closed and artificial systems and its opposite of newness and freshness of open everydayness. 8. Human destinies, events and moments considered as only external effects of powers, laws and rules standing „behind“ or „under“ or out of this reality in contrast to immediate and actual reality that is exhausting source of anthropological determinations. 9. Not understanding of culture as natural human environment which is regarded as untouched nature opposed to culture as essential determination of human. 10. Forgetting own roots of psychotherapy arising from spiritual tradition of Western civilization and whimsical and immature ingratitude towards the good and values that our ancestors discovered and introduced into everyday life.