@article{ref1,
title="The violent patient and institutional counter-violence",
journal="Gesundheitswesen",
year="1994",
author="Zeiler, J.",
volume="56",
number="10",
pages="543-547",
abstract="The treatment of violent patients confronts the individual psychiatric professional as well as the psychiatric institution as a whole with a difficult therapeutic task. In order to cope with frightening interactions an &quot;institutionalized system of defense&quot; (Mentzos) is needed to protect the individual staff member. Under unfavourable institutional circumstances the defence manifests itself as counter-aggression. The mutual reinforcement of patient-aggression and institutional counter-aggression is not at all specific for custodial psychiatry. Reformed institutions with a liberal attitude may develop subtle manifestations of counter-aggression to protect the professional identity of their members. The aim to maintain a &quot;good&quot;, non-violent psychiatry proves to be an obstacle to any effort to cope with the needs of the violent patient and to reduce institutional counter-aggression to a minimum.<p /><p>Language: de</p>",
language="de",
issn="0941-3790",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}