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Werner May (Germany) Friedemann Als-
Barcelona 2019: dorf, Graduate in

An Interview with psychology, psy-
and
chotherapist
Friedemann Alsdorf supervisor. After
short periods of
(Germany) work in psychia-
try and a special
needs school the-
The invitation sent out by the organisers, the re followed eight-
Catholic University Abat Oliba CEU www.uao- and-a-half years of
ceu.es in Barcelona, to this conference last Sep- responsibility in addiction therapy as part of
tember, 2019, included these words: Teen Challenge. Since 1997 at the IGNIS Aca-
“Does Christian anthropology have anything demy, leader of the social therapy area (offering
to contribute to the health sciences? And can addiction counselling, group therapy, social
psychology or psychiatry alone understand the work and supervision) and contact person for
inner phe- the icp, the
no me n a Institute for
which ap- Christian
pear in the Psycholo-
patient? gy, The-
The sepa- rapy and
ration of Pedagogics
health sci- in Switzer-
ences and land. Now
Christian head of the
a nt h r o - I GNIS-
p o log y Academy.
has led to
an impo-
verishment of the public dialogue. Christian Auf dem Einladungstext des Veranstalters, der
anthropology has suppressed personal experi- katholischen Universität Abat Oliba CEU www.
ence, while psychology has often become a sci- uaoceu.es in Barcelona, zu dieser Konferenzen
ence based only on what can be quantified. The im letzten September, 2019, war zu lesen:
result of this is that inner life phenomena are Hat die christliche Anthropologie irgendetwas
considered only from a psychological point of zu den Gesundheitswissenschaften beizutra-
view. Psychiatrists are then forced to separate gen? Und kann Psychologie oder Psychiatrie
their Christian sensitivity from their analytical allein die inneren Phänomene verstehen, die in
thinking. This prevents them from achieving a der kranken Person auftreten?
deeper understanding of their patients’ reality. Die Trennung von Gesundheitswissenschaften
It also has negative effects on many religious pa- und christlicher Anthropologie hat zu einer
tients, who encounter no sound arguments to Verarmung des Dialogs im öffentlichen Raum
bring themselves into harmony with their inner geführt. Die christliche Anthropologie hat die
experience. persönliche Erfahrung unterdrückt, während
In addition, there is need for reflection within die Psychologie häufig zu einer Wissenschaft
psychotherapy on the significance of openness geworden ist, die nur auf dem basiert, was quan-
for transcendence in the process of personal tifiziert werden kann. Dies hat dazu geführt,
growth by means of the cultivation of specific innere Lebensphänomene nur aus psychologi-
virtues. scher Sicht zu betrachten. Psychiater sind dann

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