title: [Boundaries of medicine: throughts on the role of the orienting behavior in the therapist-patient relationship].
abstract: The author shows that from the organismic of point of view the question for the limitations of the medical discipline has to be transformed into a question for the limitations of the doctor himself. The concept of organismic self-reference is put into relation to the contents of narcissitic logic. In this context the symptomatology of depression is elaborated upon in a paradigmatic way. Using a model of a systemtheoretical communication theory (orienting-behavior) the basic hypothesis of this article is discussed.
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition; D003142:Communication; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D009289:Narcissism; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000523:psychology
vernacular_title: Grenzen der Medizin: Gedanken zur Rolle des Orientierungsverhaltens in der Therapeut-Patient-Beziehung.