German Psychoanalytic Society

The German Psychoanalytical Society ( DPG ) e. V. is a scientific professional society founded in 1910 with headquarters in Berlin , which is dedicated to the training and research of the psychoanalysis founded by Sigmund Freud . When it was founded, it played a key role in the development of the psychoanalyst movement in Germany.

tasks

The DPG sees itself “in particular responsibility for the future of psychoanalysis in Germany”, which follows “from the examination” of its history.

“The German Psychoanalytical Society (DPG) is a scientific specialist society. It unites psychoanalysts who have completed an analytical training recognized by it. Your tasks are the maintenance, further development and dissemination of the psychoanalysis founded by Sigmund Freud and since then further developed in research, teaching, therapy, prevention and all other applications. "

- DPG on their website

The DPG sees its task in supporting its members "to maintain and further develop psychoanalytic attitudes and skills", but also to "create standards and ensure their implementation in theory and practice". In addition, it ensures that its members are “comprehensively informed about psychoanalysis and its further developments”. To ensure this, it organizes annual scientific conferences that are open to the public. The media report about it. The lectures given there can often be read later in a conference proceedings. In addition, there are “internal specialist conferences” and their training institutes also have their own on-site scientific meetings. So-called casuistic-technical conferences are reserved exclusively for members and take place in different settings . For this purpose, very experienced psychoanalysts are usually employed as supervisors, who often come from other countries and are selected from representatives from other than their own school. These case seminars are intended to reflect in detail on specific treatment-related problems. For many years the DPG has not only been accompanied by Anne-Marie Sandler , but also with casuistic-technical conferences .

Another focus is the at least 5-year “psychoanalytical training” of doctors and psychologists “at the regional institutes of the DPG according to the training guidelines of the society.” It obliges its members to “observe professional rules and ethical standards”.

After all, the DPG has set itself the task of awarding prizes in order to encourage its training participants to improve their performance.

organization

In addition to specialist committees, the DPG is divided into 19 local or regional working groups.

Psychoanalytic literature and publications by its members are made accessible via the DPG's own literature database.

history

1908-1925

The company emerged from a working group founded by Karl Abraham in 1908 . The first meeting took place on August 27, 1908 in Berlin, changing monthly in the members' apartments. It was officially established in March 1910 with Abraham as the first chairman as the “Berlin Psychoanalytical Association” (BPV), at the same time as the “Berlin Local Group” of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPV), which was also founded in 1910 . Participants were Abraham, Max Eitingon , Magnus Hirschfeld , Otto Juliusburger , Heinrich Koerber , Iwan Bloch , Jaroslaw Marcinowski , Simon (Bayreuth), Anna Stegmann , W. Strohmayer (Jena), W. Warda (Blankenburg).

Further local groups had formed in Vienna with Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler , and in Zurich with Ludwig Binswanger and Carl Gustav Jung . Association reports appeared in the joint correspondence sheet of the International Psychoanalytic Association . At the end of 1911, the BPV had 11 members, including the first three trained psychoanalysts Karen Horney , Tatlana Rosenthal and Margarete Stegmann.

During the First World War , the members were also involved in the research and treatment of war neuroses , now known as post-traumatic stress disorder. In 1919 the Internationale Psychoanalytische Verlag was founded, which also served the FOPI as a publication platform. In 1920 the outpatient clinic for psychoanalytic treatment of nervous diseases was founded in Berlin - the second of its kind - and opened on February 16, 1920. Karl Abraham and Max Eitingon founded the Berlin Psychoanalytical Institute (BPI) in 1920 . Another important step was taken by the "Guidelines for Teaching and Training Activities" laid down by a teaching committee in 1923.

1926-1945

Memorial plaque , Kurfürstenstrasse 116, in Berlin-Schöneberg

The BPV only adopted the name of the German Psychoanalytical Society (DPG) in 1926 after Ernst Simmel took over the chairmanship after the death of Abraham. In the course of the Nazification of Germany, Jewish analysts had to leave Germany, 74 of them managed to leave, some perished in the concentration camps.

When the books were burned in 1933 , Sigmund Freud's works also went up in flames. The DPG continued to exist until 1938, the members were added to the German Institute for Psychological Research and Psychotherapy , established in March 1936 , under the direction of Matthias Heinrich Göring ("Göring Institute"). In 1938 the DPG dissolved itself and thus voluntarily left the International Psychoanalytic Association.

Some of the remaining members showed an ideological conformity with regard to the “New German Soul Science”. It was Harald Schultz-Hencke's endeavor to bring the differences that had formed among Freudians, Adlerians, Jungians and other doctrines closer together again. During this time he also developed his neo-psychoanalysis (neoanalysis), which, however, was rejected by Freud. At the German Institute also were Felix Boehm and Carl Müller-Braunschweig busy.

Since 1945

The DPG was re-established in 1945 as the “Berlin Psychoanalytical Society” under the chairmanship of Carl Müller-Braunschweig and has its seat in Berlin . It was not until 1950 that the Allies allowed the original name of the German Psychoanalytical Society again. In this society, serious disputes arose between the group around Müller-Braunschweig and the neo-analytical group around Schultz-Hencke.

In 1951, the German Psychoanalytical Association (DPV) split off from the DPG under Carl Müller-Braunschweig.

Over the next few decades, the time from 1933 onwards was reassessed. This reassessment was necessary because the personal integrity of members was also questioned.

Although the society was the successor to the first branch of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPV) founded in 1910, the DPG was only temporarily resumed at the first international post-war congress of the IPV in Zurich in 1949. At the international congress of the IPA in 2001 in Nice it became the “Executive Council Provisional Society” and since the congress in Chicago in 2009 it has again been a subsidiary of the International Psychoanalytic Association.

The psychoanalytic positioning was dealt with in 1975 at an anniversary conference of the DPG.

Chair of the DPG

1910–1925: Karl Abraham
1925–1930: Ernst Simmel
1930-1933: Max Eitingon
1933–1938: Felix Boehm , Carl Müller-Braunschweig , Werner Kemper from 1935
1946–1950: Carl Müller-Braunschweig
1950–1958: Felix Boehm
1958–1970: Werner Schwidder
1971–1975: Annemarie Dührssen
1975–1981: Wolfgang Zander
1981–1987: Friedrich Beese
1987–1995: Michael Ermann
1995–2001: Jürgen Körner
2001–2011: Franz Wellendorf
2011–2017: Ingo Focke
since 2017: Klaus Grabska

Training institutes of the DPG

Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Siegen-Wittgenstein, Bad Berleburg
Institute for Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics Berlin (IPB), advanced training center of the DPG
Psychoanalytic Institute Berlin (PaIB) / Department of Psychoanalysis at the Institute for Psychotherapy Berlin (IfP)
DPG Institute at BIPP (Berlin)
Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Ostwestfalen, Halle / Westphalia
Institute for Psychoanalysis Frankfurt am Main
Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau
Lou Andreas-Salomé Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Göttingen
Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Hamburg
Teaching Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Hanover
Institute for Psychoanalysis Heidelberg
Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Kassel
Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Magdeburg eV
Institute for Psychoanalysis Nuremberg
Saarland Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Saarbrücken
Institute for Psychoanalysis Stuttgart

literature

Regine Lockot: Remembering and working through: on the history of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy during National Socialism . Orig. Edition edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-596-23852-8 .
Regine Lockot: The purification of psychoanalysis: the German Psychoanalytical Society in the mirror of documents and contemporary witnesses (1933–1951) . Edition Diskord, Tübingen 1994, ISBN 3-89295-583-2 .
Michael Ermann: Entanglement and Insight: Reflecting on Psychoanalysis in Germany . Edition Diskord, Tübingen 1996, ISBN 3-89295-613-8 .

Web links

Commons : Deutsche Psychoanalytische Gesellschaft - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Website of the German Psychoanalytic Society
DPG literature database
Literature on the German Psychoanalytic Society in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

^ DPG: Information about the DPG. Retrieved October 28, 2016 .
^ DPG: Organization. Retrieved October 27, 2016 .
↑ ^a ^b DPG: Tasks of the DPG. Retrieved October 28, 2016 .
^ DPG: Events. Retrieved October 27, 2016 .
↑
Among other things, reported on the 2016 annual conference:
- Matthias Bury: "The division in society is increasing". Dealing with refugees. Congress title "Heimatlos". Interview with Gerhard Salzmann. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung. May 3, 2016, Retrieved October 28, 2016 .
- Michael Schefczyk: “Homeless” - what does that mean? Neue Zürcher Zeitung, May 10, 2016, accessed on October 28, 2016 : “Apparently the argument had been so intense that it seemed necessary to question one's own actions again in the introductory event:“ Homeless - a topic for a psychoanalytic Meeting?" Otherwise, however, there was little evidence of conflicting histories or ongoing tensions. "
- Mario Erdheim: Concept of battle and material for conflict, consolation and illusion: What actually is - home? Youth culture and home. Youth seeks. In: Der Tagesspiegel. May 24th, 2016, accessed on October 28th, 2016 : "Home has the strange quality that it becomes more of a consciousness when one loses it, when what is naturally familiar disappears."
↑
For example
- Ingo Focke, Mattias Kayser, Uta Scheferling (eds.): The fantastic power of money. Economics and Psychoanalytic Action . How money and psyche are related. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-608-94785-4 ( klett-cotta.de [accessed on October 28, 2016]): “An increasingly economic perspective is currently gaining ground in a wide variety of areas of life. Although the health system and thus also psycho-analytical work is particularly affected, the question of the importance of money and its power has been puzzlingly seldom asked. In psychoanalytic literature, too, the subject of money has received little attention. How can this "misappropriation" of such an important topic be explained and understood? "
- Thilo Eith, Franz Wellendorf (Ed.): Fort - Da. Separating and connecting in the psychoanalytic process . With greeting v. Anne-Marie Sandler. Roland Asanger Verlag, Kröning 2003, ISBN 3-89334-398-9 ( asanger.de [accessed on October 28, 2016]): “The main contributions of the anniversary. 2002 the German Psychoanalytischen Ges. (DPG), whose topic "Fort - Da" was inspired by the re-admission to the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPV). "
- Rosemarie Eckes-Lapp, Jürgen Körner (Hrsg.): Psychoanalysis in the social field. Prevention - supervision (= library of psychoanalysis ). Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 1997, ISBN 978-3-932133-18-3 ( psychosozial-verlag.de [accessed on October 28, 2016]): “Psychoanalysts comment on social issues in the media, work in adult education, in social, educational, forensic institutions, advise and supervise teachers, social workers, doctors, lawyers, companies and administrations. In many cases, they can make a contribution to the clarification and processing of relationship problems that cannot be solved by those affected alone. "
^ DPG: Current Issues. Retrieved October 28, 2016 .
↑ Michael Schefczyk: "Homeless" - what does that mean? Neue Zürcher Zeitung, May 10, 2016, accessed on October 28, 2016 : “One of the most respected analysts in the world, Anne-Marie Sandler from Geneva, has given the German Psychoanalytical Society significant support in freeing itself from its provincial constriction. Towards the end of a ceremony in honor of her 90th birthday, the hundreds of people rose to grateful ovations. "
↑ DPG: Gaetano Benedetti Memorial Prize of the DPG. Retrieved October 28, 2016 .
^ Elisabeth Roudinesco, Michel Plon: Dictionary of Psychoanalysis. Names, countries, works, terms . Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York 2013, ISBN 3-7091-0640-0 , pp. 509 .
^ Chronicle of the DPG (1907-1958). Accessed on October 29, 2016 : "1911 Tanja [sic!] Rosenthal, Karen Horney and Margarte [sic!] Stegmann are the first women to be accepted into the group, which has grown to 11 members (end of 1911)." The Biographical Lexicon of Psychoanalysts , however, records four women for 1911: Margarete Stegmann b. Meier (1871-1936). In: Psychoanalysts. Biographical lexicon. Brigitte Nölleke, accessed on October 29, 2016 : "In 1911, along with Mira Gincburg, Tatjana Rosenthal and Karen Horney, she was one of the first women to be accepted as full members of the Berlin Psychoanalytical Association."
^ Hau, Theodor F., Hans Günter Arnds (Ed.): Psychoanalysis today. Theory and Practice in its main features . Results of the anniversary conference from October 10th to 12th, 1975 in Freiburg i. Br. D. German Psychoanalytic Society. (founded 1910). Hippokrates, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 978-3-7773-0414-4 .

[verantwortung-1] DPG: Information about the DPG. Retrieved October 28, 2016 .

[organisation-2] DPG: Organization. Retrieved October 27, 2016 .

[aufgaben-3] DPG: Tasks of the DPG. Retrieved October 28, 2016 .

[veranstaltungen-4] DPG: Events. Retrieved October 27, 2016 .

[medien-5] Among other things, reported on the 2016 annual conference:

Matthias Bury: "The division in society is increasing". Dealing with refugees. Congress title "Heimatlos". Interview with Gerhard Salzmann. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung. May 3, 2016, Retrieved October 28, 2016 .

Michael Schefczyk: “Homeless” - what does that mean? Neue Zürcher Zeitung, May 10, 2016, accessed on October 28, 2016 : “Apparently the argument had been so intense that it seemed necessary to question one's own actions again in the introductory event:“ Homeless - a topic for a psychoanalytic Meeting?" Otherwise, however, there was little evidence of conflicting histories or ongoing tensions. "

Mario Erdheim: Concept of battle and material for conflict, consolation and illusion: What actually is - home? Youth culture and home. Youth seeks. In: Der Tagesspiegel. May 24th, 2016, accessed on October 28th, 2016 : "Home has the strange quality that it becomes more of a consciousness when one loses it, when what is naturally familiar disappears."

[6] Matthias Bury: "The division in society is increasing". Dealing with refugees. Congress title "Heimatlos". Interview with Gerhard Salzmann. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung. May 3, 2016, Retrieved October 28, 2016 .

[7] Michael Schefczyk: “Homeless” - what does that mean? Neue Zürcher Zeitung, May 10, 2016, accessed on October 28, 2016 : “Apparently the argument had been so intense that it seemed necessary to question one's own actions again in the introductory event:“ Homeless - a topic for a psychoanalytic Meeting?" Otherwise, however, there was little evidence of conflicting histories or ongoing tensions. "

[8] Mario Erdheim: Concept of battle and material for conflict, consolation and illusion: What actually is - home? Youth culture and home. Youth seeks. In: Der Tagesspiegel. May 24th, 2016, accessed on October 28th, 2016 : "Home has the strange quality that it becomes more of a consciousness when one loses it, when what is naturally familiar disappears."

[tagungsband-6] For example

Ingo Focke, Mattias Kayser, Uta Scheferling (eds.): The fantastic power of money. Economics and Psychoanalytic Action . How money and psyche are related. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-608-94785-4 ( klett-cotta.de [accessed on October 28, 2016]): “An increasingly economic perspective is currently gaining ground in a wide variety of areas of life. Although the health system and thus also psycho-analytical work is particularly affected, the question of the importance of money and its power has been puzzlingly seldom asked. In psychoanalytic literature, too, the subject of money has received little attention. How can this "misappropriation" of such an important topic be explained and understood? "

Thilo Eith, Franz Wellendorf (Ed.): Fort - Da. Separating and connecting in the psychoanalytic process . With greeting v. Anne-Marie Sandler. Roland Asanger Verlag, Kröning 2003, ISBN 3-89334-398-9 ( asanger.de [accessed on October 28, 2016]): “The main contributions of the anniversary. 2002 the German Psychoanalytischen Ges. (DPG), whose topic "Fort - Da" was inspired by the re-admission to the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPV). "

Rosemarie Eckes-Lapp, Jürgen Körner (Hrsg.): Psychoanalysis in the social field. Prevention - supervision (= library of psychoanalysis ). Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 1997, ISBN 978-3-932133-18-3 ( psychosozial-verlag.de [accessed on October 28, 2016]): “Psychoanalysts comment on social issues in the media, work in adult education, in social, educational, forensic institutions, advise and supervise teachers, social workers, doctors, lawyers, companies and administrations. In many cases, they can make a contribution to the clarification and processing of relationship problems that cannot be solved by those affected alone. "

[10] Ingo Focke, Mattias Kayser, Uta Scheferling (eds.): The fantastic power of money. Economics and Psychoanalytic Action . How money and psyche are related. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-608-94785-4 ( klett-cotta.de [accessed on October 28, 2016]): “An increasingly economic perspective is currently gaining ground in a wide variety of areas of life. Although the health system and thus also psycho-analytical work is particularly affected, the question of the importance of money and its power has been puzzlingly seldom asked. In psychoanalytic literature, too, the subject of money has received little attention. How can this "misappropriation" of such an important topic be explained and understood? "

[11] Thilo Eith, Franz Wellendorf (Ed.): Fort - Da. Separating and connecting in the psychoanalytic process . With greeting v. Anne-Marie Sandler. Roland Asanger Verlag, Kröning 2003, ISBN 3-89334-398-9 ( asanger.de [accessed on October 28, 2016]): “The main contributions of the anniversary. 2002 the German Psychoanalytischen Ges. (DPG), whose topic "Fort - Da" was inspired by the re-admission to the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPV). "

[12] Rosemarie Eckes-Lapp, Jürgen Körner (Hrsg.): Psychoanalysis in the social field. Prevention - supervision (= library of psychoanalysis ). Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 1997, ISBN 978-3-932133-18-3 ( psychosozial-verlag.de [accessed on October 28, 2016]): “Psychoanalysts comment on social issues in the media, work in adult education, in social, educational, forensic institutions, advise and supervise teachers, social workers, doctors, lawyers, companies and administrations. In many cases, they can make a contribution to the clarification and processing of relationship problems that cannot be solved by those affected alone. "

[kasuistik-7] DPG: Current Issues. Retrieved October 28, 2016 .

[ama_sandler-8] Michael Schefczyk: "Homeless" - what does that mean? Neue Zürcher Zeitung, May 10, 2016, accessed on October 28, 2016 : “One of the most respected analysts in the world, Anne-Marie Sandler from Geneva, has given the German Psychoanalytical Society significant support in freeing itself from its provincial constriction. Towards the end of a ceremony in honor of her 90th birthday, the hundreds of people rose to grateful ovations. "

[preise-9] DPG: Gaetano Benedetti Memorial Prize of the DPG. Retrieved October 28, 2016 .

[roudinesco-10] Elisabeth Roudinesco, Michel Plon: Dictionary of Psychoanalysis. Names, countries, works, terms . Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York 2013, ISBN 3-7091-0640-0 , pp. 509 .

[erste_psychoanalytikerinnen-11] Chronicle of the DPG (1907-1958). Accessed on October 29, 2016 : "1911 Tanja [sic!] Rosenthal, Karen Horney and Margarte [sic!] Stegmann are the first women to be accepted into the group, which has grown to 11 members (end of 1911)." The Biographical Lexicon of Psychoanalysts , however, records four women for 1911: Margarete Stegmann b. Meier (1871-1936). In: Psychoanalysts. Biographical lexicon. Brigitte Nölleke, accessed on October 29, 2016 : "In 1911, along with Mira Gincburg, Tatjana Rosenthal and Karen Horney, she was one of the first women to be accepted as full members of the Berlin Psychoanalytical Association."

[dpg_1975-12] Hau, Theodor F., Hans Günter Arnds (Ed.): Psychoanalysis today. Theory and Practice in its main features . Results of the anniversary conference from October 10th to 12th, 1975 in Freiburg i. Br. D. German Psychoanalytic Society. (founded 1910). Hippokrates, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 978-3-7773-0414-4 .