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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]

Ausgehend von Janus' (2021) These, dass die Psychoanalyse aufgrund der Nichtberücksichtigung der prä-, peri- und postnatalen Erfahrungen an Ansehen verloren hat, fragt der Autor zunächst, worin wissenschaftlicher Fortschritt in der Psychoanalyse überhaupt bestehen kann, und zeigt dann auf, dass die plurale Psychoanalyse nach wie vor eine erstaunliche Aktualität aufweist, auch wenn einige Autoren – wie z. B. Bion oder Janus – nicht mit ihren expliziten metapsychologischen Konzepten berücksichtigt werden. Des Weiteren verdeutlicht er anhand einer Vignette, welche Fragen bei der Rekonstruktion und Konstruktion von Traumen und Konflikten auftreten, die die Bevorzugung bestimmter Lebensphasen problematisch erscheinen lassen. [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: "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]

»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]

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]

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]

This paper tries to understand the background of the so-called »crisis of psychoanalysis«, to win out of this new perspectives for further developments. Three complexes seem to be important: A tendency to remain bound to the conditions of the beginnings. That had the consequence, that innovative aspects were not integrated in a constructive manner, but were carried out by dissidences or splittings. This happened especially in relation to the understanding of the early mother relation. This was already the case in the first dissidences of Adler and Jung. In a paradigmatic way this happened with the exclusion of the experiential meaning of prenatal and birth experiences in relation to withdrawal of Rank from the psychoanalytic movement. This had the consequence that the research in this field happened outside the established psychoanalysis and was constituted as »prenatal psychology«. Because the cultural formations in essential respect are determined by early prespeech experiences, the withdrawal of Rank as the essential representative of psychoanalytical cultural psychology in early psychoanalysis meant an elementary loss and a reduction of the scope of cultural psychology in psychoanalysis. Outside the established psychoanalysis psychohistory was constituted. Psychohistorical research could clear, that the ego is not an ahistorical entity but was a result of psychobiological processes of an interplay of always new inventions and corresponding new ego-formations. These developments had the consequence, that the broad varieties of scenic enactments of early experiences in relational situations were explored outside of the traditional psychoanalytic settings in psychodrama, gestalt therapy, different regression therapies, imaginative therapy, art therapy, and others. Also the collective psychological enactments of early prespeech experiences on the level of political and social processes were largely explored outside the traditional psychoanalysis in the frame of psychohistory. The paper argues for a reflexion of these connections and problems, to revive the genuine potential of psychoanalysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper attempts to address some of the issues that Ludwig Janus (2021) has raised concerning the question of the renewal of psychoanalysis. This will involve taking a look at the conditions of »creative perception« in psychoanalytic work, particularly concerning the interplay between free association and free-floating attention. The main focus of the paper is on the relationship between the psychoanalytic and the prenatal situation and on the difficulties around conceptualising this relationship. Extracts from a child analysis exemplify how an 8-year-old boy created elements of the intrauterine world as a starting point for a new beginning. [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]

This paper is an attempt to understand some of the internal psychic processes that accompany migration. The paper focusses on the defences against disintegration and depressive pain in the face of loss and mourning. The working through of these areas of internal conflict are central to psychoanalytic treatment with people who have experienced migration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Some thoughts on the general logic and structure of the psychoanalytic process and on psychoanalytic cognition This paper focusses on the presentation of hypotheses concerning the general logic and structure of the psychoanalytic process and the corresponding psychoanalytic cognition. These are the fundamental issues underlying the conceptualisation of psychoanalytic theory and practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The claustro-agoraphobic dilemma: Technical challenges in the treatment of Borderline patients The paper focusses on the clinical manifestations of the agora-claustrophobic dilemma of some Borderline patients as described by Henri Rey. For those patients external and internal space are clued together with the consequence that neither closeness nor separateness can be tolerated. In the clinical situation the analyst is confronted with the problem, that the patient is putting raw, non-symbolized elements into him, which he has to contain, gradually transform and finally return to the patient in a less indigestible form. Referring to detailed clinical sequences the author argues that in this process the analyst's internal space becomes temporarily deformed and that it is the onset of reparative mechanisms that gradually enable him to re-gain a capacity for symbolic thinking. In this case he may lend his internal space as a »marsupial space« (Rey) to the patient. Theoretically, the tensions that arise from the projection of highly condensed, nonsymbolised part-object relations can be conceptualised as »intrapsychic gravitation waves« to gain a better understanding of the explosive pressure and the implosive pull to which patient and analyst feel exposed to in the transference and counter-transference. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Enlightenment is the child analysts' emergence from their self-inflicted immaturity: Some thoughts on the status of child psychoanalysis within the profession and their qualification to become training analysts It is increasingly difficult to comprehend the fact that highly qualified child and adolescent psychoanalysts are still hardly ever represented in the group of training analysts for the trainees in child psychotherapy. In this paper, the author looks at some of the relevant factors, including political issues and the important changes that are necessary in the practice of child and adolescent psychotherapy, particularly in the work with parents. The author makes a plea for a change in the ruling that at present prevents child and adolescent psychoanalysts from becoming training analysts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

»It will all turn out the way it's supposed to be«: Some thoughts on Adlerian teaching and psychotherapy training The development of skills in teaching and training courses is connected to personal, individual as well as group and social factors. Two individual viewpoints on Adlerian psychotherapy training are presented alongside each other in this paper and set in the context of the historical development of psychotherapy training in Vienna and later in Austria as a whole. The authors underline the important role that Adlerian Psychology has to play in setting up psychotherapy courses as an independent profession and line of research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Psychotherapy as a core subject in the university syllabus? Some notes on the planned reform of psychotherapy training in Germany The author gives an overview of the latest developments in the planned reform of psychotherapy training in Germany. In this paper he describes the legal consequences, critical issues and structural changes that will be necessary. He then discusses these issues from the perspective of psychodynamic psychotherapy and the applied sciences at university. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Can the couch be used in the psychoanalytic treatment of adolescents, or is that an overstepping of the child psychotherapist's professional limitations? This paper describes the psychoanalytic treatment of a young adult who was 18 years old at the start of therapy. The case report is partly taken from the author's qualifying paper at the end of her psychotherapy training. The treatment was conducted twice a week on the couch over a period of 3 ½ years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Gina Kaus, who was a writer and a student of Adler, integrates Adlerian topics into her literary work. This article examines four of Kaus' works: the play Toni, the short story Die Unwiderstehlichen and the novels Katharina die Große and Die Verliebten. The paper goes on to explore the artistic transformation of central Adlerian concepts such as masculine protest, jealousy and the relationship between inferiority feelings and role-play. The paper thus contributes to the hitherto neglected field of research connecting literary studies and literature with Adlerian psychology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper attempts to answer a number of questions on the subject of conflict in today's Adlerian psychotherapy, which were raised by the organisers of the science panel in preparation for the conference.I have structured the paper along the lines of these questions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The biographical and theoretical connections between Adler and the Austrian Social Democratic movement are well-known and well-documented. Since his childhood, Adler was involved in these circles, writing for them and working on the reform politics of the so-called »Red Vienna«. Thus, socialism/Marxism was one of the starting points of Adlerian Psychology. This paper sketches the biographical stages of Adler's relationship with socialism in Vienna and the debates and theories of Adler's supporters, who wanted to use a combination of Adlerian Psychology and Marxism for their socialist movement towards a humanitarian society. This source of Adlerian Psychology has not that much impact today, but in my opinion, it is nevertheless of essential importance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Wilfred Ruprecht Bion's work offers a deeper understanding of how experiences which are mentally overwhelming are processed in early development. This article will attempt to capture theresonance of events in his own biography and link those to individual aspects of his theory ofthinking. This article focuses chiefly on select basic premises, such as the container-containedmodel, beta- and alpha-elements and alpha function, but that in no way means to detract fromthe complexity of his complete body of work and the elementary connections to other constructs.In this paper, we attempt to establish a connection between the treatment of patients with complex trauma and the passing on of traumatic experiences from generation to generation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In psychotherapy and in social work, especially in the context of involuntary treatment, powerand the forces set up to counteract power play an important role. Above all in the work withthose who have a legal guardian as well as, for example, in psychotherapy with addicts that is carried out according to a court order, what counts is that the person can have an inner sense of power over his or her own actions which is greater or at least equal to the power from without. In the following paper, case studies are presented that show this more or less clearly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sophocles' »Antigone« is a tragedy that can have different readings. However, some themes (forexample, inferiority and compensation, powerlessness and omnipotence), remain basic. At the23rd Congress of the Italian Association for Individual Psychology (Turin, 26th–29th September2005) I gave a talk entitled »Antigone is alive«. At that time, I followed the most usual line ofinterpreting this myth, namely Antigone's powerlessness and her rebellion against state power(Creon). In the present paper, I have chosen a different analysis, namely the conflict between Antigone's omnipotence opposed to the powerlessness of Ismene, her sister, focusing particularlyon the feeling of repudiation. We can find that feeling both in our psychotherapeutic work, as well as in many social conflicts. Sophocles' »Antigone« turns out to be a most pertinent classical drama to analyze the various dynamics of power and powerlessness in an Adlerian sense. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is based on the assumption that both striving for power and the experience of powerlessness are intrinsic to any psychotherapeutic process. Taking this as a starting point, the authoroutlines three different concepts of psychotherapeutic work with children and their parents withreference to case material from Alfred Adler, Oskar Spiel and Regine Voitl-Mikschi. It followsthat one can differentiate three »models of dealing with power and powerlessness in psychotherapy«. Based on these findings, the author proposes that these models also point to differentcurrents of thinking and working in the history of child psychotherapy, which can clearly bedeciphered in the history of German-speaking Adlerian psychotherapy [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main point of this paper is not to summarize basic psychoanalytic concepts. Rather, it is an attempt to tease out some of the connections between basic assumptions in psychoanalysis, in order to clarify typical patterns of thinking underlying psychoanalytic practice. Such patterns of thinking mirror important aspects of the psychoanalytic attitude and can play a role in determining psychoanalytic identity. Such an attempt can of course only be subjective and selective in the face of the complexity of psychoanalytic knowledge today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The discussion of Tenbrink's paper and further comments on the topic will highlight the positive effects of the relational psychoanalytic movement on Adlerian Psychology as well as the psychotherapeutic attitude as a whole. The Adlerian approach to the psychotherapeutic attitude has been extended, expanded and enriched through its connection to relational psychoanalysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Scientific researchers often take great pleasure in collecting data, developing hypotheses and theories and evaluating the material to confirm the validity of their new knowledge. For the practitioner, this work is often seen to be dry and too abstract to be of use in their day to day work. Quality control in psychotherapy and psychotherapy training, which is now a legal requirement, can thus easily turn into just another administrative burden. A course at the Alfred Adler psychotherapy training institute in Mainz, in which trainees took part in quality control programmes, has shown that quality control need not necessarily become such an administrative burden. In the course of seminars, trainees helped to evaluate the compulsory quality control data and discussed their findings in relation to the practice of psychotherapy and the psychotherapeutic setting. The somewhat defensive attitude of the participants at the beginning of the course changed in the course of the seminars. The trainees developed a keen interest in the subject and initiated exciting discussions, particularly concerning the role of parent work in psychotherapy with adolescents. These discussions are summarised in the following paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The research on dyscalculia, a learning disorder in the field of numbers and equations, has until now been almost exclusively in the hands of cognitive psychology, leading to the impression that it is primarily a cognitive partial learning disorder. The problems in the field of emotions and relationships that accompany dyscalculia are then usually seen to be secondary to the cognitive disorder. In the following paper, four cases of dyscalculia are presented from a psychoanalytic point of view. The essential connection between the weakness in dealing with numbers and the emotional meaning that numbers have taken on in the course of the life history of the individual is shown. Finally, some theoretical points are added in order to make connections to psychoanalytic thinking in general. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]