Published: December 2022

Keywords:
Neutrality, amoralism, morality, Maturana, human relationships, autopoiesis.

Anna Emmanouilidou

Anna Emmanouilidou is a Clinical Psychologist, PhD in Psychology from the University of Mannheim, Germany, Systemic Therapist-Trainer-Supervisor, trained at the International Society of Systemic Therapy of Heidelberg (IGST/ New School of Heidelberg).

She was born in 1967 and grew up in Athens. Since 1985 she has been living and working in Thessaloniki, where she did her first studies in Philosophy and Psychology. In 1989 he participated in the first attempt at deinstitutionalization at the State Hospital of Leros. From 1992 to 2001 she continued her studies in Psychology and worked in Germany, where she obtained her PhD and completed her training in Systemic Therapy at the International Systemic Therapy Society of Heidelberg.

Since 2001 she has been living again and working in Thessaloniki, in the Children and Adolescents Unit of the Greek Center for Mental Hygiene and Research of the Greek Ministry of Health. She has worked in the field of gender-based violence counseling (KETHI), in the field of addictions (OKANA) and in the Rehabilitation Center for Victims of Torture and other forms of ill-treatment of Thessaloniki. In 2002 she co-founded the Observatory for Rights in the Field of Mental Health, an ever-growing collective, which defends the protection of the human rights of people with psychiatric experience in the field of mental health and develops alternatives to the current psychiatric reality, with Thessaloniki as its core. From 2009 until today he teaches in institutes and training companies of psychotherapists in systemic therapy in Greece and Cyprus. At the same time, she maintains private clinical practice and personal educational activity on issues of Psychotherapy of children and adolescents, systemic psychotherapy of psychoses, specialization in systemic techniques, couple psychotherapy, etc.

annaemmanouelidou@yahoo.gr

Abstract

The article attempts a description of contemporary reality and the moral dilemmas it has posed and poses to individuals and relationships, both personal and political. The article explores the potential implications of systemic neutrality, as an attitude of life and political choice, at the philosophical-conceptual, therapeutic, social and political level, the risk of its abuse at the political level and the "dangerous" dance that dances alternately with Morality and Amoralism, its social consequences. Emphasis is given in transforming the concept from a to b governmental worldview – perhaps as an adequate response to the above dangerous manoeuvers. How can systemic neutrality be integrated into a Maturanian loving autopoiesis to support the conjunctive evolution of human relationships, ecosystems, and human society?