Delegation (psychology)
In family therapy according to Helm Stierlin, delegation represents an assignment from a parent to the child, which corresponds to the parents' own unconscious wishes . Already Horst-Eberhard Richter had 1962 submitted to the similar concept of parental role requirements. In doing so, children often take on the conflicts that their parents have not acted out and therefore not resolved. The delegation represents a defense process and is based in particular on externalization and projection . It should serve the self-regulation of the delegating individual. Often, but not always, children are encouraged to be ambitious. The compulsive intrapsychic development processes in the child often correspond to institutionalized compulsive phenomena. This was also known as a psychosocial arrangement .
Individual evidence
- ^ Helm Stierlin : Delegation and family contributions to the Heidelberg family dynamic concept, Suhrkamp 1982 ISBN 978-3-518-37331-6
- ^ Horst-Eberhard Richter parents, child and neurosis . The role of the child in the family / psychoanalysis of the child's role. 1962. New edition Rowohlt, ISBN 3-499-16082-X ; Pp. 100 f., 124, 315, etc. google-book
- ↑ Auchter, Thomas & Laura Viviana Strauss: Small dictionary of psychoanalysis . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-525-01453-8 ; P. 54
- ↑ Uwe Henrik Peters : Dictionary of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich 3 1984; Stw. "Delegation", p. 110
- ↑ Stavros Mentzos : Interpersonal and Institutionalized Defense . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt / Main 1976, 1989