ABSTRACT
Psychoanalytic social work can contribute to establishing a theoretical foundation and to the practical implementation of cooperation structures. Setting up good cooperative relations to consultant child and adolescent psychiatrists and consultant adult psychiatrists and to the locally responsible hospital is very much to be recommended. Cooperation with other agencies of social work for children and young people demands particular tact in certain cases. When psychoanalytic social work is set up in addition to the installed measures of support social workers can often feel slighted. Psychotherapy, and most particularly psychoanalytically orientated psychotherapy, takes place in the relationship between therapist and patient. Influences from outside are seen as disturbance rather than as part of the therapeutic process. Professionals began to acknowledge that influences on therapy from outside and interventions of the therapist in the social world of the patient’s life could be an important element in the therapeutic process.
