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This article discusses constitutive factors in the collaboration and relationship between the employees and the inhabitants of a supported house for people with severe mental illness and addiction problems. The article emphasizes the dialectic relationship between the two partners, and where their relationship is understood as developing through a mutual interaction filled with tension and resistance. I claim that it is unhelpful to think of the relationship in terms of «helper» and «helped,» but rather in terms of two «willing» subjects who stand in opposition to each other. Two subjects, each with his/her own will to do something - and which in many situations (cases) stand in opposition to the other person’s will to do the same thing. The article’s theoretical approach is anchored in the dialectic of Georg W.F. Hegel, as well as its development in the thinking of Axel Honneth. I also build on George F. Mead’s theory on social psychology in describing and understanding the phenomena of recognition.

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