psychosozial

The revolutionary movement, known as »زن، زندﮔﯽ، آزادی« (»Woman, Life, Freedom«), has sparked a significant cultural transformation in Iranian society and across the entire Middle Eastern region. Emerging from the feminist...

In psychological studies, psychotherapeutic training and psychotherapeutic care, turning to antisemitism is relevant in several respects. On the one hand, there is a direct connection between antisemitism and psychological well-being. Secondly,...

Research on antisemitism is focused on its causes and carriers with their inability to experience the world. On the other hand, subject theories such as critical psychology have rarely attempted to examine the experience of antisemitism from Jewish...

After a brief discussion of the concept of scientific neutrality, Donna Orange’s concept of ›radical ethics‹ will be presented against the background of the ›ethical turn‹ in psychoanalysis – in which Emmanuel Levinas’ thinking of...

Although substance-related addictions, especially alcohol dependence, have one of the highest prevalence rates of mental illness, casuistics of addicted patients and theoretical reflections on addiction are rare in psychoanalytic publications. In...

The increasing and partially irreversible destruction of the environment is a fact. To acknowledge that requires remembering and mourning. Mourning must be accompanied by productive forgetting and forgiveness without a »theater of pardon«. Then...

The climate crisis is also a narrative crisis. For how can the collapse of the biosphere be linked to our everyday actions; how can we talk about the complex natural processes that take place without a stringent chain of events but are of planetary...

In view of the global rise in CO2 emissions, despite all the warnings and diverse global efforts to achieve the necessary transformations, many people are losing hope of a life worth living in the future. This can lead to paralysis and apathy as...

Drawing from the observation that our response to climate change fails to match its potential threat, this study investigates the mechanisms by which individuals defend themselves against this daunting reality and their perceived sense of...

This article analyses the connection between the climate crisis and different concepts of humanity. Sociological, psychoanalytical, evolutionary-biological, and philosophical concepts of man are discussed. They play a central role in the various...

In an attempt to build a bridge between activism and psychotherapeutic, psychoanalytical and sociological science, activism is defined, insight into protest research is given, various new climate justice groups in Germany since 2018 are presented...

This article examines the aspirations of American scientists to advance humankind by reforming schools with state-of-the-art knowledge about human beings during the Cold War. The focus lies primarily on Jerome Bruner’s cognitive psychology which...

Positive psychology emerged at the turn of the millennium with a broad research agenda: The study and promotion of positive emotions, character traits, and institutions. Since then, it has not only played a key role in shaping psychological...

This article explores the underlying factors in the field of Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung (reworking of the past) that contribute to the lack of public attention towards the individuals imprisoned in the GDR for ›antisocial behavior‹, despite...

The term »recognition« can mean very different things. As a defining moment of social action, recognition plays a central role in coming to terms with injustice suffered. Recognition processes permeate psychosocial relationships and support...

This article examines central aspects of the depth dimension of pedagogical relationships. Of particular interest is the relation between pedagogical work that focuses on elaborated didactics and pedagogical work that focuses on emotional...

If psychology wants to pass its findings on to psychological amateurs, it must clarify its relationship to common-sense psychology. Common-sense psychology and scientific psychology differ significantly in their conception of the human being, their...

Children and adolescents who went through the residential childcare facilities system of the German Democratic Republic because of social conspicuousness, refusal, family problems or nonconforming, »inconvenient« political beliefs (of their own or...