Zur erkenntnistheoretischen Differenzierung des Perls'schen Verdikts "Mind-fucking"
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ABSTRACT:
Fritz Perls, the founder of 'Gestalt Therapy', has denounced 'explanatoriness' and interpreting as 'dummy activity' and 'mind-fucking'. By means of practical examples it is shown that this 'verdict' is inappropriate, not only with regard to psychotherapeutic intervention, but also, generally, to human experiencing and action. However, it may be understood as an exaggerated reaction against the common misuse of the human ability to think (to explain, to interpret, to plan, to intervene, to construct, etc.) which leads to typical mental disorders.
Following on from critical realism and phenomenology as represented by the Gestalt theorists, Köhler (American edition 1938), Wertheimer (1991), Metzger (1963, 1969), Tholey (1980) and others, it is shown that it is necessary to take into account the 'immediately given reality' (objects, persons, thoughts, emotions, sensations) just as much as the 'represented reality' (results of thinking, constructions, interpretations), not only for a proper understanding of psychosomatic inter-relations of human health and illness, but also, generally, as a pre-condition for learning from experience and for acting and deciding responsibly within complex connections of life (past, present, and future).
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