Przemoc symboliczna w instytucji pomocowej – paradoksy pomagania
Symbolic violence within the work of counselling institutions – the paradox of counselling

Summary/Abstract: Counselling and helping are generally associated with honourable actions, aimed at the benefit of another person. People take these actions because of individual reasons or taking into account social and professional role the one performs. It is made by interpersonal interaction or within the frames of particular institiution. The latter is meant by arranged actions. The aim of this article is to present another dimension of giving help by means of institutions. The presence of symbolic violence related to power is present in the dimension. According to Michel Foucault “the one who was put within the range of perception and realises that accepts the limits enforced on them by the power”. As the author continues everybody is placed in the field of the power, despite the fact one does not always realise that. Our deliberations, related to the presence of symbolic violence and its meaning in the process of helping are based on the term of the violence Pierre Bourdieu. The deliberations refer to the way psychological and pedagogic counselling centres work. The violence is the part of secret scheme of the institution The authors try to uncover and reveal with the view to make people think and realise its existence. The hidden dimension embraces what is not visible but palpable, what is meant straightaway but has its place in the course of actions made by assisting team and institutions, what is included in the formal “between” and hidden actions and what is not realised by people who use the services of psychological and pedagogical cunselling centres.

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