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Alexithymia (A|lexi|thymia, ›No words for feelings‹) correlates negatively with leadership effectiveness. Nevertheless, how is it possible that individuals with »emotional blindness« climb the career ladder? This article explores how various...

In the following, analytical large groups will be considered primarily in terms of their culture-creating potential. If it is possible to live through regressive, chaotic processes together, to enter into dialogue, to understand irrationality and to...

100 years ago, psychoanalysis was considered the most progressive theory on sexuality. But what is left of it in feminist discourse today? Where is feminist research heading? The invention of psychoanalysis is also a story of the women around Freud,...

The current efforts of the legislature in Austria focus on academization of psychotherapy training. This could potentially result in, among other things, a long-overdue improvement in patients’ supply with psychotherapy. The possible academization...

Starting from time as a construction based on perception, an arc is drawn into how development of children and young people occurs in time, how the concept of time and sense of time develop from a developmental psychology perspective, and the...

In a first step – starting from the concept of crisis – the concept of the operative group (Grupo Operativo) by the Argentine psychoanalyst Enrique Pichón-Rivière is unfolded. Grupo Operativo is a widely used theory in psychoanalytic social...

Concerning outpatient mental healthcare migrant patients have been found underrepresented at statistical population surveys. Therefore, it seems reasonable to examine what difficulties arise that group therapists are confronted with in their...

Against the background of the planned amendment of the Psychotherapy Act in Austria, it is currently being discussed whether it might be necessary to reduce psychotherapeutic methods to their respective orientation with regards to research and...

In the mid-1970s, Alice Ricciardi-von Platen, Josef Shaked and Michael Hayne had some fateful encounters which later led to the founding of the International Association for Group Analysis (IAG). Their first experiences in the circle of S. H....

In the following, the fundamental interdependence of social and individual reality as well as the illusionary separation of individual and society are discussed. A theoretical thread is provided by the sociologist Norbert Elias, who had a decisive...