Psychiatr. praxi 2015; 16(3e): e11-e35

Justice and psychotherapy

Mgr. et Mgr. Jana Vyskočilová¹, prof. MUDr. Ján Praško Pavlov, CSc.²

¹ Fakulta humanitních studií, Karlova univerzita Praha

² Klinika psychiatrie, Lékařská fakulta, univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, Fakultní nemocnice Olomouc

Justice is one of the basic concepts of a good order in human relations. Justice is a regulatory idea for organizing society thatpreceded the law and appeared as well as in animals. The sense of justice is already seen in young children. The ability to altruisticbehavior, sense of justice, reciprocity, and mutual assistance, are probably genetically determined as dispositions, which arethen further developed during education, or during education may be deformed. Issues of justice in psychotherapy frequentlyoccur but may not be reflected in therapy. Justice sometimes appears directly in what the client is saying (mostly about injustice),but more often the subject is contained in the complaint and stories implicitly in the background and during conflict resolution.It covers the patient story, his problems with others and the therapeutic process itself, seepage from the patient to therapy,through the therapeutic relationship and the strategies of therapeutic change. Increasing the sensitivity of the justice therapistmay help improve the therapeutic process. Problems with justice between therapist and client can reveal during self-reflectionor quality supervision.

Keywords: psychotherapy, justice, ethical questions, self-reflection, biological predispositions

Published: August 1, 2015  Show citation