title: [The anthropological phenomenon of strangeness in psychotherapy].
abstract: Strangeness is conceived as an existential phenomenon, by which a perception is antithetical facing the perceptions hitherto, and incomparable as well concerning the present imaginations. In order to perceive strangeness, it requires to face an interpersonal encounter. It is the essence of strangeness that the encounter, which usually compensates the lack of experiences, is not compensated in a perception as strangeness. Strangeness as a perception does not compensate the lack of experiences by means of the present imaginations. Strangeness is not conceivable out of its own. Strangeness requires the precondition of active daring towards an interpersonal encounter, which promotes the appearance of the absolutely unexpected in form of an intrusion. Such as a psychic achievement of separation. This will be illustrated by the incestuous coping of the hero, as a typical involvement in strangeness. Finally perversion will be mentioned, as an absolute impairment concerning the perception of strangeness. Two case-reports are presented.
authors.affiliation: Arzt für Neurologie und Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie, Düsseldorf.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Stüttgen
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D000884:Anthropology, Cultural; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D007179:Incest; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009289:Narcissism; D010262:Paraphilic Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011613:Psychotherapy; D014473:Unconscious, Psychology
vernacular_title: Zum anthropologischen Phänomen der Fremdheit in der Psychotherapie.