Comment on recent mediation cases
Article from: TDM 2 (2004), in International Commercial Arbitration
Summary
I would like to explain it in my words, from the point of view of my experiences - and my research work - on psychotherapeutic communications, in order to clarify what I think is the inner logic of this model. When a dispute is emotionally charged - let it be a couple's dispute in family therapy or a dispute at court - what you often find is that both sides are engaged in a form of confrontational interaction in the course of which they perceive each other as enemies. As a consequence of this, both sides are no longer interested in analysing the reasons for ...