Daniel Stern has brought unbelievable movement into almost all psychological theories. His intelligent research with infants has enriched the image of psychological abilities and vulnerabilities and has turned things on their head in some places. His evidence, that the person is a resonance body for social events, his reference about how early psychological patterns develop …
The significance of the immediate physical experience and self-expression, i.e., how someone shows themselves and speaks, has been (apart from Fritz Perls) most clearly recognised by Eugene T. Gendlin <a href=”https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_T._Gendlin” target=”_blank”>Eugene Gendlin</a>. His ‘Focusing’ approach moves the systematic support of the client’s inner perception processes into the foreground of counselling activity. His philosophical derivations …
Klaus Grawe, a controversial psychotherapy researcher, has, with his work ‘Psychological Psychotherapy’, introduced a most inspiring and well-grounded approach which leaves the orientation of therapy approaches behind him. It was important to him to try to present a mental framework in which the findings and the multi-directional approaches can be integrated. Our approach also feels …
The Canadian psychologist, Leslie S. Greenberg <a href=”https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_S._Greenberg” target=”_blank”>Leslie Greenberg</a> is one of the very few who have researched humanistic therapy forms (particularly Gestalt Therapy) and has tried to prove the enormous effectiveness of emotion-focused procedures. His research emphasises that in many cases neither cognitive understanding nor deliberate behaviour changes nor corrective relationship experiences are …
Frank-M. Staemmler and Werner Bock lead the centre for Gestalt therapy in Wuerzburg. With their book “Holistic Change in Gestalt Therapy” “<a href=”https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/387294780X?keywords=ganzheitliche%20veränderung%20in%20der%20gestalttherapie&qid=1444562824&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1″ target=”_blank”>Ganzheitliche Veränderung in der Gestalttherapie</a>”, they have outlined a process theory of psychological change, which has, so far, received too little attention in the public domain. Regardless of the content of the …
Otto Kernberg, one of the leading psychoanalysts globally, is a role model for everyone who thinks about people, because of his unshakeable exactitude with which he attempts to understand the inner logic of clients. Equally, the tenacity, with which he emphasizes the loving as well as the aggressive impulses of the soul, is a reminder …
Behaviour therapy, with its various bifurcations is a main branch of psychology. In it are gathered insights and procedures which are based upon a section of psychology that can be particularly well researched with scientific methods. Behaviour is observable and, therefore, measurable and so it is well suited to identify effects and apply research studies. …
Since depth psychology is such an enormous, erratic and laborious rock of psychological thinking and acting, it easily generates followers or ignorance. The wealth of insights and experience, therefore, only emerge when one makes the effort of acquiring the cumbersome terminology and way of thinking. Then, however, psycho-analysis becomes more interesting and it is significant …
Gestalt therapy – founded by Fritz Perls, Lore Perls and Paul Goldmann – was one of the booming psychotherapy methods of the 60’s to the 90’s, which, in the meantime, is fighting for survival in many places and is in danger of becoming history. Its wealth of innovation, of non-conformity, of pleasure in experimentation and …
Apart from Gestalt-, talking- and hypnotherapy, transactional analysis is one of the most important trends of the so-called humanistic counselling approaches. Developed principally by E. Berne, it is a concept which combines depth-psychological, communicative and behaviour-orientated knowledge, and presents it in plausible, single-step models which are easy to understand. The downside was and is, that …