SOME DIFFICULTIES OF ANALYTIC THERAPY AND QUALITY ASSURANCE

Up till now psychoanalytic psychotherapy confronted itself not very of ten with the challenges of quality assurance. Moreover, in the rare ar ticles about this topic the specific characteristics of psychoanalytic therapy were not considered. The reasons for this strained relationsh ip are on the one hand the difficulties between the conceptual guideli nes of quality assurance and on the other hand the self-conception of psychoanalytic psychotherapy and inner conflicts of psychoanalytic psy chotherapy revived through quality assurance. These problems lead to l ack of interest and distance of the psychoanalytic therapy towards qua lity assurance. In case of unavoidable confrontation intense aggressiv e affects emerge, which impair the institutional self-assertion and th e further conceptual development of psychoanalytic psychotherapy.