Coaching in der Psychotherapie — Psychotherapie im Coaching

The author seeks a deeper understanding of the relationships between coaching and psychotherapy. He reflects first of all his own practical experience as psychoanalyst, coach, and as trainer/supervisor of coaches and psychotherapists. Therapy, he says, develops a long-range-approach of alleviating symptoms and helping to strengthen potentials in a close relationship between therapist and client. Coaching is more focused on short, exactly aimed interventions and acute problems in the relationship between the coachee and his job. Professional exchange between therapists and coaches should be encouraged, because therapist often are deeply ignorant of the professional reality of patients, and coaches tend to underestimate the relevance of personality problems which work against rational organizations of professional development and constructive relationships in teams.