[Subjective construction of psychiatric hierarchy]

A survey was undertaken amongst student nurses at a psychological clinic with the aim of reconstructing the way in which the participants project values and expectations onto the established hierarchy of the institution. The method used for the survey was the Repertory-Grid-Technique; the grids were evaluated in a formal logic way. It can be seen a) how students especially favour the team as a niche at the workplace and how they seek to dissociate it from other role-bearers at the clinic, b) how patients are categorized at the very bottom of the hierarchy of values, c) how in some grids an internalized attitude is reflected as a mountain of constructions formed of idealized work expectations, which later could crop up as "Burn Out" Syndrome.