Psychoanalytische Familientherapie

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The starting point of the author’s considerations is he abstract of Möhring’s and Neraal’s work (2022) on the theoretical development of the psychoanalytic family therapy in Germany. They focus on how family conflicts (Massing, Reich and...

Psychodynamic and systemic thinking are well established in pedagogy and special education. What is missing in the scholarly discussion is the conjunction of both theory perspectives. The following considerations undertake an attempt of theory...

The article follows on from a series of books and essays published by the author years ago and attempts to demonstrate that psychoanalysis was already laid out by Sigmund Freud in a way that makes it possible to place it under the umbrella of...

In the face of a broadly differentiated therapeutic field discussions about the significance of individual therapeutic procedures focus primarily on their specific logic. In this context, the discussion about integrative therapy and counseling...

The article explores the question of how Freud’s programmatic motto for the conscious acquisition of unconscious forces »Where Id was, there shall Ego be« can be understood today. The focus is on the person-centered systems theory. Its...

The article examines the challenges and problems of the outpatient care of children and adolescents with chronic disease; this care should be patient-centred and interdisciplinary, provided by a multiprofessional team or collaboration. The...

By way of introduction, the history and setting of pediatric psychosomatic work in a university hospital are described. On the basis of a case study from a pediatric psychosomatic consultation with a girl who affected with diabetes mellitus type 1,...

The non-profit organization »KroKi e.V.« was founded in 2009. Its goal is to support projects in the context of the psychosomatic treatment for chronically ill children and juveniles. In 2016 KroKi opened a residential youth welfare facility for...