Volume 23 (2022), Edition 2

This case presentation is about a seven years old child with a chronic skin disease. It describes family talks with different family members. One topic is the sleeping situation of the family where the closeness-distance-conflict and touch in...

This paper gives a brief survey of conceptions and models of family psychosomatics, and selected results of research. Common psychotherapeutic practice disregards this continuously growing field of knowledge. Some problems of psychotherapeutic...

When becoming aware of one’s own physicality, positive and negative body perceptions activate and reflect our self-awareness and their life-historical context. Through tactile body experiences (sensitive exploring), the neuronal matrix of one’s...

The text deals with the effects on psychosocial therapeutic work in social fields since the beginning of the corona pandemic. Reflections on the effects on psychosocial therapy work, professional roles as well as training and further education are...

The paper first focuses on a major broadening of the view of the human being in psychotherapy, related medical disciplines, and other human science disciplines. The human being is seen more and more as a social being from the beginning of his life,...

The psychodynamic asessment-instruments OPD (for adults) und OPD-CA (for children and adolescents) in their actual second version are well established. Especially for the psychiatric and psychotherapeutic treatment for children and adolescents, the...

The text deals with family-therapeutic setting in different institutions. Elke Rosenstock-Heinz characterizes meaning and practice of the setting in a child and youth therapists’ context and working environment. Christian Brauenlich puts his focus...

The concepts of the »operative group« originated in Argentine psychiatry and psychoanalysis from the 1940s to the 1970s and are widely used today in Latin American and European countries, often in therapeutic and didactic fields. Family therapy is...