Psychoanalytic and systemic diagnosis. An attempt at bringing them together

Abstract

Considering the metaphorically understood motto "I see, I see what you can't see", four phases of approach between the psychoanalytical and systemic working methods in the diagnostic area are described. In doing so, the conception that because of unbridgeable paradigmatic differences between systemic and psychoanalytic thought there are no cooperation possibilities at all, is disproved. Instead of this, by referring to two casuistic vignettes it is shown in what respect the collaboration between psychoanalysts and systemic therapists can lead to differentiated action-relevant diagnostic assessments.