title: [Psychotherapy as a career].
abstract: The author discusses the professional world and setting of a psychotherapist against the background of his subjective and personal experience manifested by typical polarities and fields of tension that exemplify in equal measure both the special features and the risks inherent in this "impossible vocation". The following problems and polarities are dealt with in detail: 1. Who chooses or is apt to become a psychotherapist? 2. Vocational training somewhere between method-oriented meticulousness and innovative keenness to experiment. 3. Self-image--projected (foreign) image. 4. Own life--foreign life. 5. Innermost reality and individual difficulty in respect of external reality and social integration.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für Psychosomatische Medizin u. Psychotherapie Städtisches Krankenhaus München-Harlaching.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: von Rad
mesh_terms: D002321:Career Choice; D003479:Curriculum; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000193:education
vernacular_title: Psychotherapie als Beruf.