Volume 25 (2024), Edition 1

As the anthropologist Michael Tomasello has shown in his experimental comparative studies between human children and ape children, the pointing gesture is of central importance in the development of human consciousness. This specifically human...

When people inherit, they take on guilt. Families break up, companies fail. If more women became business heirs today, they could have an influence on the economy as a whole – including politically, if they finally gave back what their parents’...

Regular case supervision is an important component in psychotherapy. It broadens the view on patients and their family system and contributes to the professional skills of the practitioners. In this workshop, perceiving and recognizing...

After an introduction to the topics of pregnancy and motherhood/fatherhood/parenthood, there was a committed, lively, and very stimulating as well as very personal discussion among the workshop participants. With regard to characteristics that...

Theoretical background of the neurobiological processing of overwhelming stimuli are the triune brain (Maclean), the antagonistic autonomous sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system. An important role are also playing the four different parts...

Stierlin, Haley, and, recently Guntern are prominent representatives of the theory that family therapy needs a system-oriented paradigm instead of the individual-centered paradigm of psychoanalysis. This theory, according to the present author, is...