Bernhard Achterberg

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Bernhard Achterberg (* 1945 in Borstel , Segeberg district ; † August 5, 1998 in Poland ) was a German psychologist , psychotherapist and university professor .

Life

Bernhard Achterberg was a son of the religious scholar, journalist and Unitarian Eberhard Achterberg and his wife Elisabeth, née. Pusch, and a brother of Gerd-M. Achterberg .

Bernhard Achterberg before the district court of Kiel

During his school and university he was an active member of the Federation of German-Unitarian youth (BDUJ), a bündisch youth organization, the German Unitarians close stands. He studied at the University of Kiel and was involved in university politics from the mid-1960s. Achterberg joined the SDS and was on their XXII. Conference of delegates, which took place in September 1967 at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , was elected to the 15-member "Political Committee of the SDS". In addition to him (as SDS delegate from Kiel), five Berliners (including Bernhard Blanke , Rudi Dutschke and Christian Semler ), two Frankfurters ( Reimut Reiche and Helmut Schauer ), three Munich (including Elmar Altvater ), two Marburgers (including Frank Deppe ) and two Heidelberg delegates (including Eberhard Becker ). At the height of the student movement in the 1960s, the political committee developed into the “power center” of the SDS and made it possible for the SDS to become the “strategically planning and tactically operating core force” of the extra-parliamentary opposition (APO) against the emergency laws .

After completing his studies, Achterberg worked in various areas of social work and had practical contacts with innovative psychiatry in England , Italy and Bulgaria . He was a research assistant at the University of Göttingen and since 1981 at the Department of Social Affairs at the University of Kassel , where he received his doctorate in 1983 with a thesis on JRR Tolkien and Carlos Castaneda .

His range of topics as a professor at the Kassel University , which was renamed the University of Kassel in 1993 , was diverse and included psychological counseling , supervision , psychiatry , drug counseling and fringe group work . He developed and taught his own methods , such as for social counseling and supervision, which he also conveyed in further training measures. Achterberg was also involved outside of the university; For example, in September 1989 he was invited by the Kunstverein Alte Schmiede in Vienna , where he worked on an international author project that lasted several weeks.

He was particularly interested in psychodrama .

Publications

  • Bernhard Achterberg u. a. (Ed.): 300 years of Christiana Albertina students in Kiel . ASTA and AG for Active University Policy at Kiel University, Kiel 1965. (Festschrift)
  • Bernhard Achterberg u. a .: fear, experience. Experience reports, analyzes and criticism on “Fear in Capitalism” . 1st edition, Kübler Verlag , Lampertheim 1974, ISBN 3-921265-07-X .
  • Bernhard Achterberg: The death penalty has been abolished. There is another way. On the death of Ulrike Meinhof . In: Graswurzelrevolution , Ed. 20/21, 06/76 (= June 1976, p. 17f), ISSN  0344-2683 .
  • Bernhard Achterberg: Developing a concept of responsibility in dealing with the works of Tolkien and Castaneda . Comprehensive University of Kassel, Kassel 1983 (dissertation)
  • Bernhard Achterberg: role of the supervisor . Academy for Youth Issues, Münster 1983 (= series of publications Supervision. Mensch, Arbeit, Organization ; edited by: Academy for Youth Issues Münster, Issue 3), ISSN  1431-7168 .
  • Eberhard Achterberg : The strength that sustains us. Finding meaning in a threatened world . Edited by: Bernhard Achterberg u. Christel Schmidt, Verlag Deutsche Unitarian, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-922483-05-4 . (posthumous text collection from 1952, created by his son Bernhard Achterberg)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tilman Fichter, Siegward Lönnendonker: Brief history of the SDS . Rotbuch, Berlin 1997, p. 115f (see literature)
  2. ^ Claus Gennrich: Germany's revolutionaries. The SDS, core force of the extra-parliamentary revolution , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, March 30, 1968
  3. ↑ Obituary for Dr. Bernhard Achterberg: Attention, respect and care (PDF file; 126 kB) in the university newspaper publik , University of Kassel, No. 08/98 of November 17, 1998, p. 5
  4. ↑ kunstverein alte schmiede wien :… author projects from October 1981, 17th author month…, 4. – 29. September 1989, see listing ( Memento from February 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) ( PDF file; 140 kB)
  5. ↑ FEPTO. Federation of European Psychodrama Training Organizations : Obituary Dr. Bernhard Achterberg (English; obituary for Bernhard Achterberg)
personal data
SURNAME Achterberg, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist, psychotherapist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Borstel , Segeberg district
DATE OF DEATH August 5, 1998
Place of death Poland