2 FORMS OF ETHICAL REFLECTION

Two forms of ethical reflection are described. The first is expressed via a theoretical normalization of a 'reflection process' - essential elements of which are prior determination of the world and the people who act therapeutically therein. Confrontation with the latter serves to examine which consequences are achieved by abandoning such prior determinations. Normalization of the analytical process becomes a product of the exchange between counterparts. Thus by definition it already contains an emancipatory dimension of development. Both arguments are illustrated by a practical example from Balint group work.