Psychotherapie

Psychodynamic imaginative trauma therapy was developed at the end of the 1980s to help traumatized patients with complex trauma sequelae. We believe it is particularly important to pay attention to compassion and to invite patients to be more...

Somatic Experiencing (SE)®, as developed by Peter A. Levine, will be presented as a basic neuropsychological concept that is suitable in particular for the treatment of trauma-related disorders and psychosomatic illnesses, as it works directly with...

As a result of many years of interdisciplinary cooperation in the working group »inpatient trauma treatment« of the German Society for Psychotraumatology (DeGPT), a book was published in 2023, which is thought in a broader sense as a general...

The seven-step treatment concept for traumatic disorders is a treatment manual that enables the therapist to actively deal with the effects of trauma in both a sensitive and confrontational manner. Starting with a stabilization phase, we first work...

The Polyvagal Theory (PVT) of the US-American neuroscientist Stephen W. Porges can mean much more to therapists than just another narrative for addressing the mind-body-problem. Its impact on philosophy and science since the 17th century can hardly...

The patient’s motivation for psychotherapeutic treatment is the wish to receive professional assistance with mental suffering. Therefore, he/she calls for psychotherapeutic expertise. Alike, the effort for healing is in the focus of the therapist....

The last of the seven work modules of the mentalization-promoting behavioral therapy MVT is »change of perspective and empathy«. Only after authentic and vital feelings and reliable self-efficacy have been achieved can the path to the empathy...

Of the seven working modules of the mentalizing behavioral therapy MVT, the last two modules – module six and seven – are development modules. Previously, access to emotional experience was established with the Emotion Tracking module. Module...