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»I want to grow into the sky, but that could destroy the world.« Psychotherapeutic treatment of a traumatized child in the field of tension between stabilization and structural change This paper describes the therapist's approach with a traumatized and psychologically already prestressed boy and reflects on it based on various theoretical concepts. The structural weaknesses of the patient appeared in the play in the fragility of the symbolization ability and the pretend mode. Strong feelings of anxiety and confusion, perceptible in the countertransference, as well as the presence of defense mechanisms such as splitting, idealization, omnipotence or dissociation, demand to a greater extent the therapist's container function. Therefore, at the beginning of the treatment, an initial phase served to stabilize the patient. Only gradually, after a good working alliance was established, a clearer confrontation with the fears became possible. Instead of being left alone with it, the patient found in therapy a language, images, space. Thus, the patient was able to reduce his omnipotent control and the transformation of stressful fantasies and feelings also developed in the relationship with the therapist. A gradual integration and de-idealization became possible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dreams and temptations: Unveiling the journey to self-discovery This thesis documents the long-term psychoanalytic therapy of an adolescent patient who developed a severe depressive episode and post-traumatic stress disorder following a serious traumatic event - an abduction and experience of sexual violence. Over a period of several years, the therapeutic work is described, which not only addresses the patient's individual symptoms, but also sheds light on profound family dynamics and the development of the therapist's psychoanalytical identity. The therapy focused on processing the traumatic experience and aimed to create corrective relational experiences, strengthen self-representation and promote the ability to self-care and build supportive social relationships. The case study illustrates the complexity and challenges of psychoanalytic work with traumatized adolescents and emphasizes the need for an individually tailored approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one can sing The article describes an in-depth psychoanalytic treatment of a man suffering from depression, inner emptiness and the consequences of earlier traumatic experiences. It begins with behavioral pre-treatment, which lays the foundation for later psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Over the course of the therapy, an intensive process unfolds in which the patient works through deep inner states and traumatic experiences. The article sheds light on the complexity of the treatment, which is characterized by the interweaving of structural, conflict-related and traumatic aspects, and shows how the therapeutic relationship and creative forms of expression contribute to healing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The first analysis - a tango with the mother? The course of treatment of a patient suffering from a moderate depressive episode, somatization disorder and narcissistic neurosis structure is described. The treatment, which takes place over 300 sessions in an individual analytical setting, reveals deep-rooted conflicts of self-worth and a strong dependence on the approval of others. Through the therapeutic work, the patient succeeds in recognizing and working through his inner conflicts, which helps him to better understand and shape himself and his relationships with others. The author also reflects on the challenges and learning processes that this first psychoanalytic treatment entailed for her as a therapist. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An Adlerian view on some examples of pastoral care in a clinical setting and with people in old-age The final thesis for the Individual Psychological Counselor provides insights into the diverse application of individual psychological concepts in pastoral practice by looking at encounters in different contexts. The reflections show how individual psychology can help to understand and support people in different life situations by emphasizing the importance of a sense of community, feelings of inferiority and lifestyles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Journal for Individual Psychology plans to announce the topics for the upcoming issues and invites interested authors to submit articles. The topics for the upcoming issues are: research methods, conference booklet for the annual conference of DGIP 2024, "Cancel Culture" - the search for identity through power-seeking?, literature and individual psychology, "In Touch" - between abstinence and touch, and conference booklet for the annual conference of DGIP 2025. The submissions will be reviewed anonymously. The contact person for submissions and questions is Livia Eschke. [Extracted from the article]

The Journal for Individual Psychology plans to announce the topics for the upcoming issues and invites interested authors to submit articles. The topics for the upcoming issues are Education II, Research Methods, Conference Proceedings Annual Conference DGIP 2024, "Cancel Culture" - Identity Search through Power Struggles?, Literature and Individual Psychology, and "In Touch" - Between Abstinence and Touch. The submissions will undergo an anonymous peer review. The deadlines for submissions for the different issues are June 1, 2024, September 1, 2024, December 1, 2024, March 1, 2025, June 1, 2025, and September 1, 2025. [Extracted from the article]

The Journal for Individual Psychology plans to announce the topics for the upcoming issues and invites interested authors to submit articles. The topics for the upcoming issues are: professionalization issues in further education and the role of science, education II, research methods, conference booklet for the annual conference of DGIP 2024, and "Cancel Culture" - identity search through power-seeking? The submissions will be reviewed anonymously. The deadlines for submission for each issue are indicated. [Extracted from the article]

The Journal for Individual Psychology plans to announce the topics for the upcoming issues and invites interested authors to submit articles. The topics for the upcoming issues are: "Object and Subject - in the tension between powerlessness and creative force: Conference booklet Annual Conference DGIP 2023" for Issue 2/2024, "Questions of professionalization in further education and the role of science" for Issue 3/2024, "Education II" for Issue 4/2024, "Research Methods" for Issue 1/2025, and "Conference booklet Annual Conference DGIP 2024" for Issue 2/2025. The submissions will be reviewed anonymously. [Extracted from the article]

The Journal for Individual Psychology is planning to announce the topics for the upcoming issues and invites interested authors to submit articles. The topics for the issues in 2024 are groups, object and subject, professionalization issues in further education, and education II. Research methods are being sought for the issue in 2025. The submitted manuscripts will be anonymously reviewed. [Extracted from the article]

The Journal for Individual Psychology plans to announce the topics for the upcoming issues and invites interested authors to submit articles. The topics for the upcoming issues are "Nude Pictures" for Issue 4/2023, "Groups" for Issue 1/2024, "Object and Subject in the Tension between Powerlessness and Creative Force" for Issue 2/2024 (in connection with the DGIP Annual Conference 2023), "Professionalization Issues in Further Education and the Role of Science" for Issue 3/2024, and "Education II" for Issue 4/2024. Submitted manuscripts will be anonymously reviewed. [Extracted from the article]

The Journal for Individual Psychology plans to announce the topics for the upcoming issues and invites interested authors to submit articles. The topics for the upcoming issues are "Nude Pictures" for Issue 3/2023, "Education from an Individual Psychological Perspective" for Issue 4/2023, "Groups" for Issue 1/2024, and "Object and Subject in the Field of Powerlessness and Creative Power" for Issue 2/2024. The submitted manuscripts will be anonymously reviewed. [Extracted from the article]

The Journal for Individual Psychology plans to announce the topics for the upcoming issues and invites interested authors to submit articles. The topics for the upcoming issues are the conference proceedings of the DGIP Annual Conference 2022, nude pictures, education from an individual psychological perspective, and groups. The submissions will undergo an anonymous peer review. The editorial deadlines for the respective issues are December 1, 2022, March 1, 2023, June 1, 2023, and September 1, 2022. [Extracted from the article]

The Journal for Individual Psychology plans to announce the topics for the upcoming issues and invites interested authors to submit articles. The topics for the issues in 2023 are "IP in Motion," "Conference Proceedings Annual Conference DGIP 2022," "Nude Pictures," and "Education from an Individual Psychological Perspective." The submitted manuscripts will undergo an anonymous peer review. The journal has a print edition with the ISSN 0342-393X and an online edition with the ISSN 2196-8330. [Extracted from the article]

The Journal for Individual Psychology plans to announce the topics for the upcoming issues and invites interested authors to submit articles. The topics for the upcoming issues are: Failure (deadline: June 1, 2022), Individual Psychology in Motion (deadline: September 1, 2022), Conference Proceedings Annual Conference DGIP (deadline: December 1, 2022), and Group (deadline: March 1, 2023). The manuscripts will be reviewed through anonymous peer review. The journal has a print edition with the ISSN 0342-393X and an online edition with the ISSN 2196-8330. [Extracted from the article]

The Journal for Individual Psychology plans to announce the topics for its upcoming issues and invites interested authors to submit articles. The topics for the upcoming issues are trauma, failure/negative therapy outcomes, societal topics as a "rescue" of psychoanalysis, and a conference issue for the annual conference of the DGIP 2022. The manuscripts will undergo an anonymous peer review. The journal has a print edition with the ISSN 0342-393X and an online edition with the ISSN 2196-8330. [Extracted from the article]

»This space is so dreary - the kind of place you'd go to if you wanted to hang yourself.« Patient and therapist maneuvering between psychoanalysis, neurology and palliative care The paper is a reflection on the psychotherapeutic treatment of a patient viewed from the perspectives of psychoanalysis, neurology and palliative care. The author discusses the development of these three perspectives, showing how they complement and enrich, but also interfere with each other in the course of treatment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Predictive processing in neuropsychoanalysis.Feelings as an aid to navigating the field of tension between powerlessness and creative powerIn this paper I summarise Mark Solms' neuropsychoanalytic model of the generation of consciousness, according to which consciousness is not, as previously presumed, generated in the cerebral cortex, but in the upper brainstem. References to individual psychology are shown. Tracing back to Kant and Darwin, both models understand psychological dynamics - including the question of conscious or unconscious processing - as a result of self-organisation, the goal of which it is to maintain homeostasis. It is within this field of tension that teleologic intentionality and subjective consciousness are developed. In the final discussion of various aspects, reification is understood as a means of finding a reliable prediction. Solms and Adler describe basal processes, which might inform work with patients with early/structural issues. Considering the question, what it is that is felt, when we feel, Adler places a greater emphasis on relationality. This is understood as a response to a situation characterised by double dynamics, i. e. the need to establish a relationship to the outer world in which homeostasis can be maintained. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

»Style of life« (Adler) and the individual positioning in group analysis This paper is about the application of Adler's concept of »style of life« in group analysis. Adler's »style of life« is collected during the initial individual assessment. When the group conductor listens to the adult recalling the first five memories of life, the conductor is listening to the unconscious material, to get a glimpse of the child's internal world and reactions to the external world. The life-style script can be used as a tool post-group to understand pivotal moment in the group from an individual perspective. During the group session itself, the group conductor needs a different focus: a group-related thinking. This is because in group analysis, especially according to S. H. Foulkes, the focus is on what is happening in the group as a whole. The group conductor must always ask herself the question: Which unconscious fantasy is currently being enacted and negotiated in the group? Which group member or which subgroup gets which function or role (localization)? Who can recognize themselves in whom in the group right now (mirroring) and when does healing and calming take place (resonance)? Special moments between members with a witnessing by the whole group. Resonances which greatly intensify the affects in the group, the group acts as a sounding body, thus making group analytic psychotherapy so effective. The combination of Foulkes' (group action) and Adler's (individual movement) approach can be applied across other disciplines in non-clinical groups because both the concept formation and the language are non-pathologizing. Non-pathologizing language seems to me to be so valuable as it gives me as a therapist a new lens to understand and hear the life realities of group members especially those from marginalized groups in Society. This has been an important piece of learning for me as I acknowledge my own privileged position in Society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

»You're not really dead, are you?« The move from pretending to play, to pretend play. The development of symbolic capacity in a child that suffered early deprivation and traumatisation This article deals with the consequences of early childhood traumatisation on the development of a boy, the development of his symbolic capacity in the course of child psychotherapy in the ambulant clinic »die Boje« in Vienna, and the challenges facing the therapeutic technique with this deprived and traumatised child. In the first part of the paper, I address theoretical concepts concerning the early mother-child dyad, early traumatisation, and the effects of these on the development of symbolic functioning. I then link these theories with the clinical case material. In the second part, the theoretical considerations of Anne Alvarez, who in her work with disturbed children distinguishes between three levels of psychological states which need differing technical approaches, are examined in terms of their relevance to my clinical material: the three-phase treatment of the boy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the case of important theories that have been taught for decades, it is usually assumed that the foundation is correct, the research has been verified and therefore one does not have to scrutinize the theoretical basis. This is how I felt about John Bowlby's theory of attachment, until the primatologist and anthropologist Volker Sommer confronted me with the claim, that the biological foundation of attachment theory cannot be maintained. This paper discusses that criticism as well as others: the vague definition, the postulated universality of attachment theory and the occasionally problematic methodology for testing attachment qualities. The critique is supplemented by a modulating reflection of my own process in the context of dealing with the topic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dieter Tenbrink's contribution to the Individual Psychology theory and practice in the last 40 years covered a wide of topics. His stimulating papers and pioneering ideas were often the starting point for controversial discussions and play a decisive role in developing and renewing Adlerian Psychology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper discusses various aspects of utopian thinking with reference to the complicated situation at the end of World War 1 and the personal connection between Alfred Adler and Leo Trotzki. The discussion focusses particularly on the shift from a position of hope for change to a totalitarian demand for absolute power. Whilst utopian thinking in the sense of an imaginative phantasy indicates a striving to overcome existing limits and includes the creative potential of new possibilities, omnipotent phantasy (Hanna Segal) involves a shift to totalitarian ideology with a destructive potential that soon became evident in the course of events following the October Revolution in 1917. Ideologies and utopias can be understood in terms of psychic retreats (John Steiner) or timeless states which increasingly become a substitute for reality and lead to an almost delusional denial of feelings of guilt. The dystopian outcome of the »Russian experiment« (Sigmund Freud) is discussed with reference to Jevgenj Samjatin's novel »We« and in the context of current developments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper at hand is about the function and meaning of method work in the counselling process and the attempt to at least potentially achieve a received counselling identity by means of working with specific methods. Different modes of method reception are described, transferred, and evaluated before a concrete example of method work is more closely examined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]