Volume 30 (2025), Edition 1

The essay starts with a case study exploring the connectedness between faith and psychological illness. The basic human need to be related to a larger whole has given rise to innumerable forms of religions under the various cultural and social...

It is personal experiences that brought me into contact with Buddhist approaches. I see Buddhism beyond religion as an empirical science, which I also find fruitful in my work as a psychotherapist. This path has opened my heart and brings lightness...

As the oldest of three monotheistic Abrahamic religions, Judaism, with its extensive written and oral tradition, history, philosophy and life practices in various forms, offers an enormous wealth of theoretical food for thought and practical help...

This article examines the Bahá’í conception of human nature and its impact on psychotherapeutic practice and Positive and Transcultural Psychotherapy (PPT after Nossrat Peseschkian). Central concepts, such as oneness of humankind, human...

Following an introduction of the specific qualities of Christian spirituality, a case study illustrates how biblical resources can be included in the therapeutic process with Christian clients. A first step is to invite the inner parts that are...

This article thematizes how questions of meaning, religiousness and spirituality shows up in psychotherapy and counseling, and how a psychotherapist deals the best way with it. The basic attitude to faith and religious belief and its function is...

People who don’t have long to live are often left alone in these weeks and days – perhaps the care is perfect and the medication is optimized, but having to go through this final journey emotionally alone is a hard fate. When faced with death,...

Self-determined dying is the decision made independently by the patient to forego life-sustaining medical measures and to allow the process of dying to occur. Thanks to the development of modern medicine, it has long since become the new paradigm...

The judgement of the Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht, BVG) of 26 February 2020 is groundbreaking for all judicial decisions on the subject of »assisted suicide« and »euthanasia« and »killing on demand«. It is fundamental...

Two new therapeutic approaches are compared – one, after more than twenty years of development, is about to become the predominant therapeutic direction. Like its predecessors, dialectical behavioral therapy DBT and schema therapy,...