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FERENC JÁDI GETTING THERE Over the years I have often reflected on how we psychiatrists earn our daily crust: working with people who we would in no way wish to be close friends with, who we would not wish to be our neighbors or immediate fam- ily, and whose characters astonish us. Furthermore, with the naivete of our science we straightjacket them into categories, while their life histories gain such a hold on us that we are hardly capable of taking risks with our own lives. After the supervisory sessions, I brooded over how difficult it was to awaken the intuitive skills of a therapist in such a way that he did not lose his boundaries, was capable of taking a global perspective, but could still recognize the necessity for not avoiding, in the boundary cases, the absorb- ing experience of an anthropological encounter. I feel that the art of the pro- fession centers on this anthropological encounter. What do I mean by this? In the autumn of 1987, a solicitor approached me in connection with a _ seriously ill young man, asking for my help. He told me that the man had . been living in Berlin
East Central Europe – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1997
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