psychosozial

When a conflict escalates, a process begins that might be compared to a journey: The parties enter a foreign country. But at the same time, this country is strangely familiar to them. The rules that apply there, the patterns of communication that...

Based on interviews with members of the Post-Apartheid and Born Free Generation in the regions of Somerset West, Lwandle and Nomzamo, this article presents three types of historical and social awareness among young South Africans: Little or no...

The article deals with the legitimization of mosque construction projects in the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region. The conceptual framework of this article consists of relationalist considerations that places special emphasis on a neo-institutionalist...

One of the main concerns of the project Bochum – Stadt der Vielen | Senior*innen erzählen vom Einwandern (IFAK e.V.) is to use biographical narratives to make the diversity of unique migration experiences of different communities and individuals...

The article assumes that reproductive technologies change the conditions for planning and realizing parenthood in many ways. In doing so, they expand the possibilities for the formation of partnerships, but also produce new forms of psychological...

This article examines social relationships in the context of digital transformation in contemporary society and the increasing importance of digital measuring and comparing. Drawing on findings from the research project »The Quantified Life«, the...

With new psychosexual phenomena, e.g. fluidification and ambiguity of gender and increasing distance from sex binaries, sexology and psychoanalysis are faced with the tasks of reviewing and modifying their concepts and fundamental views for better...

This article interrogates the current cultural practice of mobile dating, using the dating app Tinder as an example, for its subjective and psychodynamic meanings. The essential features of this application are explained and supplemented by...

This article sheds light on the partly unconscious conflicts that can find expression in the consumption of pornography. The background of the explanations is the psychoanalytic theory, which understands pornography as a perverse defense fantasy, in...

The research presented here examined romantic love in heterosexual couple relationships in the present. For this purpose, six problem-centered interviews (three men and three women) were analyzed using a double analysis: A first interpretive pattern...

Since the specificity of the psychoanalytic relationship is revealed in the intimacy or subjectivity of the individual case, it can only be fathomed and communicated through »intimate« insights into concrete relational processes. In this respect,...

The question of limits is dealt with on two levels: on the one hand, the limits between the different categories of children found in educational practice as well as in research (»the traumatised children«, »the difficult children« …), on the...

This article sheds light on the problem that conflicts tend to get out of hand in pedagogical interaction contexts. Limiting them requires the ability to loosen or reflect on the connection between external and internal scenes, as Bernfeld already...

Moments of dissolution of boundaries are omnipresent. In interpersonal relationships, they have a high affective-sensual potential. This article uses empirical data to analyze interand intrasubjective dynamics of a professional relationship, which...

Starting from current scenes of questionable communication, the article leads from the first evidence of a sensitisation for the topic »tact« in the Enlightenment to a pre-scientific justification of tactful interaction at the end of the 18th...