Albert Görres

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Albert Hermann Joseph Emil Elisabeth Görres (born September 13, 1918 in Berlin ; † February 3, 1996 in Munich ) was a German psychoanalyst , psychotherapist and professor in Mainz and Munich.

life and work

Görres studied philosophy , psychology and medicine in Heidelberg and Tübingen ; the medical doctorate took place with Viktor von Weizsäcker . He completed his psychiatric and psychoanalytic training in Berlin , Heidelberg and Amsterdam . Görres dealt intensively with Freud's work, was assistant to Mitscherlich and later introduced Janov's primal scream method in Germany (which he himself later judged rather skeptically).

After his habilitation in psychology in 1955, he was appointed to the first German professorship for depth psychology at the University of Mainz in 1961 . From 1966 to 1973 Görres was head of the Psychological Institute and the Department of Applied Psychology and Depth Psychology at the Ludwig Maximilians University (LMU) in Munich. In 1973 he became director of the Clinical Institute for Medical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the Medical Faculty of the Technical University (TU) in Munich . The professor held this office until his retirement in 1983.

In his numerous writings and speeches, Görres repeatedly dealt with the tension between psychology and theology and dealt with questions of freedom of will and human responsibility and their limits. The Christian, deeply rooted in faith, had a long friendship with the theologian and Jesuit Karl Rahner . Together they wrote the book “Evil - Ways to Cope with It in Psychotherapy and Christianity”. Görres had been a member of the General Council of the Catholic Academy in Bavaria since 1967 and, together with Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI ), Hans Urs von Balthasar , Henri de Lubac and others, was part of the editorial team of the International Catholics from its foundation in 1972 and until 1986 Communio magazine .

Görres was an undogmatic critic of certain developments in the Catholic Church that he described as "disease-causing", such as Catholic sexual morality . He advocated a sexuality free of guilt . Based on his broad therapeutic experience, he criticized that a misunderstood Catholic upbringing could seriously damage the mental development of people, he spoke of "ecclesiogenic neuroses " and the "pathology of the Catholic". He was openly critical of Pope John Paul II's rejection of the laicization of priests. Nevertheless, Görres was appointed as a specialist in various church bodies and commissions, including the Council Commission on Marriage and Family ("Pill Commission") of Pope Paul VI. In 1983 he was the only psychologist who took part in the World Bishops' Synod on the subject of “Repentance and Reconciliation” in the Vatican - which he found scandalous.

Albert Görres had been married to the psychotherapist Silvia Görres (1925–2015) since 1950 and had seven children. His brother was the engineer Carl-Josef Görres (1905–1973), who was married to the writer Ida Friederike Görres (1901–1971). At the end of the war, Albert Görres, as a member of the staff of the Tübingen on-site doctor Theodor Dobler , achieved the surrender of Tübingen to the French troops on April 19, 1945 without a fight.

In 1978-82 Görres had a literature collection on cathartic therapies (= primary therapy and others) created at the Institute for Medical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the Technical University of Munich , which he later donated to the Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Hygiene (IGPP) in Freiburg , where they are today under the name “Collection Dr. Raven ”is accessible. - It is worth mentioning that around 1982 Görres was very interested in the psychotherapeutic approach Focusing of the American Eugene Gendlin and also adopted its methods. Gendlin had methodically developed the so-called “talk therapy” (also called “client-centered therapy”) of Carl Rogers . Görre's wife was also a doctor and psychotherapist. She worked psychoanalytically and stayed with this method.

Fonts (selection)

  • The cross with faith. Critical thoughts of a therapist. Text selection Silvia Görres , Frank Höfer. (Graz 2000), ISBN 3786783594
  • Body and salvation: Caro cardo salutis, in: Mut zum Leben (Mainz 1993), ISBN 3786717273
  • with Christoph Schönborn and Robert Spaemann : On the church doctrine of original sin. Comments on a burning question (Freiburg 1991), ISBN 3894113030
  • with Walter Kasper (Ed.): Depth psychological interpretation of faith? Inquiries to Eugen Drewermann (Freiburg 1988), ISBN 3451021137
  • Before the surrender without a fight, a forged Führer order, in: Manfred Schmid, Volker Schäfer (edit.): Rebirth of the Spirit. The University of Tübingen in 1945 (Tübingen 1985)
  • Does religion know people? Experiences between psychology and belief (Munich 1983), ISBN 3492006183
  • with Karl Rahner : Evil. Ways to cope with it in psychotherapy and Christianity (Freiburg 1982), ISBN 345108631X
  • Limits and obstacles to freedom from a psychological and psychiatric point of view, in: Jörg Splett (Hrsg.): How free is man? On the permanent conflict between the idea of ​​freedom and the reality of life (Düsseldorf 1980), ISBN 3-491-77380-6
  • Belief - how does it work? in: Walter Jens (Ed.): Why I am a Christian (Munich 1979), ISBN 3463007460
  • Does psychology know people? Questions between psychotherapy, anthropology and Christianity (Munich 1978), ISBN 3492023983
  • The sick, annoyance of the performance society (Ed.) (Düsseldorf 1971), ISBN 3491003121
  • Marriage in freedom of conscience. Problems of Practical Theology (Ed.) (Mainz 1969)
  • At the Limits of Psychoanalysis (Munich 1968)
  • with Karl Rahner : The Body and Salvation (Main 1967)
  • Method and experience of psychoanalysis (Munich 1965), ISBN 3463180197 (Italian 1961, Spanish 1963)
  • Memorandum on the state of medical psychotherapy and psychosomatic medicine. On behalf of d. German Research Association (Wiesbaden 1964)
  • Person and I in Freud's early writings (Heidelberg 1954) Medical Faculty, dissertation February 16, 1954, unpublished
  • A contribution to the theory of errors in Thomas von Aquin (Tübingen 1947) Phil. Faculty, dissertation June 13, 1947, unpublished

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Josef Zander: An eyewitness account of the end of the war in Tübingen. The end of the blackout. As a physician on the close staff of the location doctor Theodor Dobler. Schwäbisches Tageblatt, Tübingen, April 19, 1995.
  2. ↑ Albert Görres: Before the surrender without a fight, a forged Führer order , in: Manfred Schmid, Volker-Schäfer (Berarb.): Wiedergeburt des Geistes (Tübingen 1985).
  3. ^ Johann-Georg Raben: Bibliography on primary therapy, prenatal and transpersonal psychology. Brochure, self-published in 1990, approx. 60 pages. See also IGPP: 20/13 Johann-Georg Raben Collection. Retrieved December 11, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Gorres, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Görres, Albert Hermann Joseph Emil Elisabeth (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychoanalyst, psychotherapist, professor in Mainz and Munich
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 1996
Place of death Munich