Hellmuth: Quite technically I was not a member of the Waffen-SS at first, I was a police officer and before that, a soldier in the army..
In Existential Psychotherapy (Basic Books, New York, 1980), Irvin Yalom writes:
The therapist healed, [Hellmuth] Kaiser believed, simply by being with the patient.
Successful therapy requires “that the patient spends sufficient time with a person of certain personality characteristics.” What personality characteristics? Kaiser cited four: (1) an interest in people; (2) theoretical views on psychotherapy that do not interfere with his or her interest in helping the patient to communicate freely; (3) the absence of neurotic patterns that would interfere with the establishment of communication with the patient; (4) the mental disposition of “receptiveness”-being sensitive to duplicity or to the noncommunicative elements in the patient’s behavior.
Hellmuth Kaiser's germinal idea that the delusion of fusion represents “universal psychopathology” is analogous to the conceptualization of the.
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Note that Kaiser here specifies ‘personality characteristics’; these are not a matter of formal, professional qualification or training. Rather, these speak to the personal dim