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Justice and psychotherapy

Publication at Faculty of Humanities, Faculty of Arts |
2015

Abstract

Justice is one of the basic concepts of a good order in human relations. Justice is a regulatory idea for organizing society that preceded the law and appeared as well as in animals.

The sense of justice is already seen in young children. The ability to altruistic behavior, sense of justice, reciprocity, and mutual assistance, are probably genetically determined as dispositions, which are then further developed during education, or during education may be deformed.

Issues of justice in psychotherapy frequently occur 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 therapist may help improve the therapeutic process.

Problems with justice between therapist and client can reveal during self-reflection or quality supervision.