Psychoanalytische Familientherapie

Children and adolescents tend to express their inner emotional state nonverbally through facial expressions, body language, behavior, and actions (»symptom language«). If adults (parents, teachers, therapists) are unable to decipher and verbalize...

The article deals with one facet of the problem of children in reception centers for refugees. The focus is on the difficulty of developing their own gender identity in the face of role models. What is generally pointed out in the specialist...

Children and adolescents who went through the GDR’s residential care system because of social conspicuousness, refusal, family problems or unpleasant political views (their own or their parents’) often still suffer from the consequences of...

The author uses a case study to illustrate the frequently encountered conditions and structures of family therapy within a day clinic setting, which typically does not focus on family dynamics and their influence on symptomatology. Admission to the...

Online dating is now the most popular way to find a partner. The success of these formats speaks for itself in terms of finding a partner, but it can also point to a growing social need to find a virtual space where one can escape from reality. This...

On the literature on interactions between psychotherapy and partnership both unfavorable and favorable influences are been described. The present article therefore deals with characteristics that may be helpful in the early recognition of conditions...

The author presents the concept of relational analysis as an elaboration of object relations theory in the multi-personal context of family relations, proceeding from there to indicate parallels and differences between relational analysis and...

Female and male therapists have different ways of presenting themselves in therapy. An attempt is made to discribe the current situation, without trying to imply that this be a natural law or remain a strict rule for ever. The author, himself a...

The authors examine »multigenerational family therapy«, an approach to family therapy that involves the grandparents (first generation) in the treatment of problems between parents (second generation) and their children (third generation). The...

Until today the concept of transference has remained central to psychoanalytic theory. Is it also central to family therapy? Many, if not most family therapists would probably answer negatively. According to them, a family therapist works mainly...

The author develops a theory of parent-child relationships that allows for a systematic analysis of psychosocial mechanisms of defense according to thematic roles. These roles include, for example, partner substitute, mirror image, ideal self,...

Since the first Pisa study conducted by the OECD in 2001, Germany has received poor marks in international comparison. The conclusion from Berlin at the time was that the »cuddly pedagogy« that had been practised for decades finally had to come to...

Clinical observations generated the hypothesis of multigenerational (transgenerational) transmission of conflictual relationship patterns in families. This hypothesis is meanwhile supported by a growing body of quantitative research. The impact of...

The article provides a brief overview of psychoanalytic and attachment theory developmental psychology in relation to the highly contentious separation problems of parents of under-threes. It is based on a lecture given at the annual conference of...

Parents shape and mould their children’s family relationship experiences and also influence their children’s personal development in many other ways as educators and transmitters. Although reciprocity is an indispensable mechanism for...

The reciprocal regulation of stress and negative emotions between parents and children plays a central role in the transmission of fatal transgenerational relationship patterns in early childhood. The decisive factor is the extent to which parental...

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’...

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...