Angelica Seithe

Angelica Seithe, 2014

Angelica Seithe, also Angelica Seithe-Blümer, (born July 4, 1945 in Bad Lauterberg in the Harz Mountains ) is a German psychologist , psychotherapist and poet .

Life

Angelica Seithe studied psychology at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster from 1966 to 1971 and graduated with a diploma. This was followed by training in depth psychology, among others at the Psychoanalytic Institute in Giessen . From 1973 to 2010 she managed the Berthold-Martin -Haus, a psychotherapeutic dormitory for adolescents and young adults in Gießen and since 1982 has been teaching and training at the Institute for Imaginative Psychotherapy in Göttingen (AGKB). She published numerous articles that deal with the clinical picture of anorexia , the imagination in psychotherapy, but also with questions about language and creativity.

At the same time, Seithe writes poetry and short prose. Her texts have appeared both as single titles and in literary magazines and anthologies, including Am Erker , Das Gedicht , Der Dreischneuß , erostepost , Keine Delikatessen , Signum , Sinn und Form , Sommergras, on fixpoetry.de and on the radio (hr2-Kultur) .

Fiction publications

• Reed clearing. Poems. Bläschke , St. Michael 1981, ISBN 3-7053-1527-7 .
• When the stairs climb out of the windows. Edition Literarischer Salon , Giessen 1988. 2nd edition 1990, ISBN 3-88349-366-X .
• Inner Courtyards. API, Perth 1992, ISBN 0-646-07549-7 .
• Light With Closed Eyes. Poems / Poems. API, Perth 1993, ISBN 0-646-13719-0 .
• Sometimes red roofs. Poems and Stories / Sometimes Red Roofs. Poems and Stories. API, Perth 1997, ISBN 0-646-30829-7 .
• Blackberry sky. Poems. Demand-Verlag, Waldburg 2005, ISBN 3-935093-43-8 .
• About the flowing time. Poems. Neues Literaturkontor, Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-920591-93-3 .
• Touches. Short stories. Sonderpunkt Verlag, Münster 2013, ISBN 978-3-95407-027-5 .
• Rain light. Poems. Neues Literaturkontor, Münster 2013, ISBN 978-3-9815731-2-1 .
• In the shade of the apples. Selected poems. edition open field, Dortmund 2016, ISBN 978-3-7412-3850-5 .
• As long as we stay in the light. New poems. edition open field, Dortmund 2020, ISBN 978-3-7528-1351-7 .

Psychological publications (selection)

• Psychotherapy in the case of chronic anorexia nervosa with the catathymic picture life. In: H. Leuner, O. Lang, (Ed.): Psychotherapy with the day dream. Katathymes picture life. Results II. Hans Huber Verlag , Bern 1982, ISBN 3-456-81180-2 , p. 229.
• The role of the imagination in creative processes. In: L. Kottje-Birnbacher, Ulrich Sachsse , E. Wilke (eds.): Imagination in psychotherapy. Huber, Bern 1997, ISBN 3-456-82868-3 , p. 66.
• The use of language images in katathym imaginative psychotherapy. In: L. Kottje, Ulrich Sachsse, E. Wilke (eds.): Imagination in psychotherapy. Huber, Bern 1997, ISBN 3-456-82868-3 , p. 96.
• The role of the image in verbal communication of feelings. In: H. Salvisberg, M. Stigler, V. Maxeiner (eds.): Bringing experience to language in a dreamy way. Huber, Bern 2000, ISBN 3-456-83497-7 , p. 49.
• The mutual connections between body experience and imagination. In: Imagination. 2/2002, p. 78, ISSN  1021-2329
• The importance of good internal objects for development and therapy. In: M. Bürgi-Kraus, L. Kottje-Birnbacher, I. Reichmann, E. Wilke (Eds.): Development in the imagination - imaginative development. Pabst Science Publishers. Lengerich 2008, ISBN 978-3-89967-460-6 , p. 97.
• Katathym imaginative psychotherapy. In: Hans Müller-Braunschweig , N. Stiller: Body-oriented psychotherapy. Springer Medizin Verlag , Heidelberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-540-88803-1 , p. 231.
• On the development of distorted body perception in anorexia patients from an object-theoretical point of view: Where is the healing chance of the imagination? In: L. Kottje-Birnbacher, Ulrich Sachsse, E. Wilke (eds.): Psychotherapy with imaginations. Hans Huber Publishing House. Bern 2010, ISBN 978-3-456-84794-8 , p. 251.
• The birth of the metaphor. On the psychology of their genesis. In: Imagination. 1-2, 2012, p. 235, ISSN  1021-2329
• The main topics of the eating disorders and their processing with the help of the imagination. . In: Imagination. 4, 2014, p. 28, ISSN  1021-2329
• Creativity - intoxication and discipline. On the psychology of creative people and their design processes. In: Imagination. 1, 2016, p. 5, ISSN  1021-2329
• Accompanied by the inner therapist - experiences with the self-KB. In: Imagination. 3–4, 2018, p. 256, ISSN 1021-2329
• Word, feeling and imagination. When language creates feelings. In: Imagination. 3–4, 2018, p. 132, ISSN 1021-2329

Awards (selection)

• 1998: Finalist in the GEDOK -Rhein-Main-Taunus poetry competition
• 2009: Special Poetry Prize at the North Hessian Author Prize
• 2012: Winner of the Hildesheim poetry competition (jury prize)
• 2014: Prize winner in the competition of the Hamburger Haiku Verlag (2nd prize)
• 2014: Prize winner of the Hildesheim poetry competition (jury prize & 1st place participant voting)
• 2018: Harz Literature Prize (1st Prize, Poetry category)

Web links

• Angelica Seithe's website
• Short biography and information on the work at literaturport.de
• Short biography on the AGKB website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ fixpoetry.com
2. ↑ See: Blickpunkt Interview: Angelika Seithe: Sentences of movable silver. In: Wetzlarer Neue Zeitung . 3rd September 2016.
3. ^ The winners ... Poetry.