title: [Responsibility and guilt from the psychiatric/psychotherapeutic viewpoint].
abstract: The sense of universal responsibility of the individual is based on a religious (in a pre- and overconfessional sense) relationship to a transpersonal whole. It is a prerequisite for the philosophical discourse on ethics. The special responsibility of the psychiatrist in his anthropological constructs, his concepts of illness and disease, and his method of treatment are discussed. The patient's being responsible (at least partly) for falling ill, his coping with his disease and impairment, his cooperation during treatment and also the pathology of inadequate guilt feelings and deficits are dealt with. Taking the blame as part of the human condition may be seen as an indicator of a mature development of a person.
authors.affiliation: Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik, Zürich.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Scharfetter
mesh_terms: D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D006167:Guilt; D006801:Humans; D010553:Personality Development; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D012941:Social Responsibility