Bert Hellinger

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Bert Hellinger (bourgeois Anton Hellinger ; born December 16, 1925 in Leimen ; died September 19, 2019 ) was a German psychoanalyst and family therapist.

Ordained a priest in 1952, he was director of a South African mission school for many years. Since the late 1970s, by modifying the methods of systemic family therapy , he developed a form of family constellation , a group work that he himself called a life support method.

The Hellinger constellation method is not an independent psychotherapy procedure . Hellinger's underlying concept and how it deals with clients is controversial.

Life

Anton Hellinger grew up in the late Weimar Republic and in the era of National Socialism in Cologne and studied philosophy , Catholic theology and pedagogy . He was ordained a priest in 1952 and then worked until 1968 as the director of a Catholic mission school in South Africa . As a member of the Order of the Mariannhiller Missionaries Congregation Hellinger carried the name Suitbert , abbreviated as Bert. He kept this short name even after leaving the order and resigning from his priesthood in 1971.

He then got married for the first time in 1971, the marriage remained childless and was divorced. With his second wife Maria-Sophie Hellinger-Erdödy, he temporarily moved into a rented apartment in the former Small Reich Chancellery in Stanggaß, a district of Bischofswiesen in Berchtesgadener Land , where Adolf Hitler's workrooms were once located, which triggered criticism in the press.

Outside of the therapist scene, Hellinger's family constellations became known in particular through the publication "Zweierlei Glück", edited by Gunthard Weber (1993).

education

After his return from South Africa, Bert Hellinger completed a psychoanalytic training (1968–1972). He faced a psychoanalytic training analysis and completed numerous training and further education in various areas of psychotherapy. However, the Vienna Psychoanalytic Association refused to recognize his psychoanalytic training after giving a benevolent lecture on the unconventional and controversial analyst and psychologist Arthur Janov . It was not until 1982 that H's psychoanalytic training was recognized by the Munich Working Group for Psychoanalysis MAP. In the same year, the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians in Bavaria (KVB) certified that he had the necessary training for his work as a non-medical therapist. He later returned his health insurance license because he did not offer any individual therapies. On the occasion of the new Psychotherapists Act in Germany of 1999, he did not apply for approval as a psychological or medical psychotherapist.

Hellinger went to the USA and completed courses a. a. in Primary Therapy with Arthur Janov , in Provocative Therapy with Frank Farrelly and in Hypnotherapy with Jeff Zeig , Stephen Lankton, Stephen Gilligan . He was a teaching therapist for transactional and script analysis .

Group dynamics , the therapeutic work of Leslie B. Kadis and Ruth McClendon from the USA, the family therapy of Salvador Minuchin (born 1923), Jay Haley ( Perverse Triangle ) and Iván Böszörményi-Nagy (1920-2007) were of particular importance to Hellinger , the script analysis by Eric Berne (1910-1970) and the solution-oriented approaches of the hypnotherapist Milton H. Erickson (1901-1980).

method

He was inspired u. a. through the family therapy work of Virginia Satir (1916–1988), who had attracted attention with family constellations in the 1960s. Virginia Satir raised the question of the consequences of the integration of an individual in the series of generations, but her family reconstruction was primarily about the "detachment of the individual from his family of origin, the unbundling of dependence on it and the detachment from negative ones Orders ".

In the classic family constellation according to Hellinger , men for men and women for women from among those present are spatially arranged by the constellation representative for family members in such a way that they correspond to the subjective reality of the client. This results in the possibility of perceiving the (the client's) subjectively experienced network of relationships within his (established) system and recognizing entanglements (dysfunctional relationship constellations). Family constellation brings to light something “hidden” that can reveal itself beyond manipulation and conscious background knowledge. With constellations it can be observed again and again that deputies can give very precise information about the sensitivities of the persons represented. According to Bert Hellinger, family constellations were initially just a method of determining what relationships are like in a family and what works there. It was primarily neutral. The main focus of the method is less on the person setting up the system than on the relationships between those involved in his system. The identification of the different categories of conscience that work in systems is decisive for solutions .

For Hellinger, constellations were not primarily a therapeutic method, but a tool that could be used meaningfully in many areas. Most recently, Hellinger spoke of the fact that in his work he himself provides “help in life”, helping those affected to gain access to a better life through a different approach. Most recently he rejected a psychotherapeutic claim and described his further developed constellation format as “new” or “intellectual family constellation”.

Developed by Hellinger Family Constellations at approaches have been transferred since the 1990s, to other systems (work teams and organizations) and are in general context of systemic constellations or systemic constellations called. Statements in the corporate context are known as organizational statements . Furthermore, abstract terms, e.g. B. “the disease”, “the obstacle” (represented by a representative) can be set up.

Bert Hellinger has distanced himself from attempting to make his method more scientific. Most recently he ran a “Hellinger School” with his wife Maria-Sophie Hellinger-Erdödy. This is where the focus of work lies in a newly developed form, the so-called “intellectual family constellation”. This makes it possible, by “walking with the spirit”, to join the movement that is behind all movements. In this way one can turn to everything in the same way as it is.

Hellinger's basic concept

Hellinger postulated the three areas of balance, order, attachment (belonging) as systemic basic human needs . According to his own statements, his significant contribution to the systemic constellation work was merely the recognition of the essentiality of the area of belonging - that no one may be excluded from the system from belonging (to the system). Hellinger is criticized in particular with regard to the area of ​​order. The thesis put forward by Hellinger regarding the correlation order / disease is devalued in particular by Klaus Weber . The concept of hierarchical order is not only found in Hellinger, but is (was already before Hellinger) a common component of family therapy (cf. parentification ). On the one hand, the individual (good / bad), on the other hand, a collective (group or system) conscience watch over compliance with these three systemic basic needs. On a spiritual level Hellinger speaks of a third form of conscience, the conscience of a "great soul". It is only on this third level that Hellinger no longer differentiates between victims and perpetrators. This failure to differentiate between victims and perpetrators leads to criticism of Hellinger, especially in the context of German guilt from the time of National Socialism; the moral failure to differentiate between victims and perpetrators in rape leads to consternation and outrage, especially among feminists. Hellinger's concept of order of the family is commonly classified as traditional and patriarchal. The therapist Eva Madelung points out that Hellinger understood “his” image of order neither as fundamentally rigid nor as normative.

reception

Criticism of the method

Hellinger's method has around 2000 practicing followers, but is highly controversial in professional circles as well as in the wider public . Hellinger is accused of violating numerous rules of psychotherapeutic work in his public family constellations, then leaving his clients alone and not helping them to process their impressions and often strong emotional tension appropriately. In addition, it is not a recognized form of psychotherapy, is unsuitable for the treatment of mental disorders , has not been scientifically proven and carries considerable risks.

The psychotherapist Michael Utsch differentiates as follows: “In the counseling and therapeutic area it looks different. There are some experts here who also include Hellinger family constellation in their treatment. […] As a diagnostic aid, it [the family constellation] can be helpful in experienced hands, but as a rigorous interpretation tool it can also be dangerous. "

One problem with Hellinger's method was that for a long time it was hardly ever schooled and conveyed according to a developed teaching concept and that several thousand family constellations ultimately carry out this more or less at their own discretion. Many constellations today still state “Family constellation according to Hellinger”, although they neither studied relevant constellation videos nor learned personally from Hellinger, which was also criticized by Colin Goldner.

In a dossier in ZEIT on August 21, 2003, Martin Buchholz described the typical sequence of a family constellation at Hellinger (quotations in quotation from H.): “In a brief preliminary talk, the client describes his problem to the constellation. An anamnesis of personal life and medical history is not required. The therapist is only interested in 'important events' in the patient's family history. The operator decides what is 'important'. Have there been separations, divorces or suicides? Aborted or stillborn children? War victims or other ancestors who died early? In short: where are the forgotten or displaced corpses in the clan basement? 'A constellator for Hellinger' will search until he has found such a 'disregarded' family member in the client's relatives. (…) Hellinger believes that every family has a soul that fatesly binds all members together. Therefore one shouldn't exclude anyone in a family. This would punish the 'family soul' with illnesses for the closest relatives or descendants, who would now unconsciously identify with the evil fate of this excluded person. (...) Help for the 'entangled' client only comes near where the 'order of love' is restored, a hierarchically structured family system that Hellinger claims to have recognized as beneficial ... ”(At the beginning of 2004, around 2,000 Hellinger therapists were employed very different reputations).

On the other hand, the classic (more static) family constellation according to Hellinger is still practiced, also by serious therapists and doctors, but primarily as part of a comprehensive therapeutic concept. According to the original method (classic family constellation according to Hellinger), questions are asked , hypotheses are checked and accordingly carefully prepared. This has been recognized in specialist circles, for example by Arist von Schlippe and Jochen Schweitzer in the textbook on systemic therapy and counseling (1996), which was completely revised in 2012 and appeared in the first edition in 2013 and the second edition.

Criticism of the person

“By the way, the systemicists in Germany accuse Hellinger of not being systemic, and the family therapists accuse him of not working with families; and the hypnotherapists criticize him for using the therapeutic trance and the analysts for not being analytical. Nevertheless, he just keeps going and tries as best he can to help people in need. "

- Hunter Beaumont : Orders of Love. Bert Hellinger's Systemic Therapy and Gestalt Therapy . In: Gestalt criticism. The magazine for Gestalt therapy, issue 2 , 1999.

In Germany in 2002, especially with an article by Beate Lakotta in Der Spiegel , a critical representation of Hellinger and his work through various media began. The critical experts on Hellinger and his work who appear prominently in public are the clinical psychologist Colin Goldner and the psychology professor Klaus Weber . Both consider Hellinger's “teaching” to be “based on fascist ideas”. A frequently quoted passage in Hellinger's book Gottesgedanken (2004) and relating to Adolf Hitler does not exonerate in this regard: “If I respect you, I also respect myself. If I hate you, I hate myself too. Then may i love you Do I have to love you, because otherwise I am not allowed to love myself either? ”Even the chairman of the Systemic Society at the time , Arist von Schlippe , denounced Hellinger in an open letter in this regard (which numerous media and authors at home and abroad use as an argument against Hellinger was taken over), but made it clear in his second open letter: "For me, Bert is not a Nazi, not a fascist and his thinking is not a pioneer of a 'brown' worldview", and that his actual criticism arose from his "systemic responsibility".

In 2005, the Israeli psychiatrist Haim Dasberg (who wrote the foreword to Hellinger's publication for a course in Israel Rachel weeps for her children ) differentiated Bert Hellinger's statements about Hitler and the respective listeners / readers as follows: “But if I assume that Bert Hellinger publicly addresses his thoughts to the wise, the bad, the simple and those who do not know how to ask, then I, as an educator, cannot allow that on a German stage. When Bert Hellinger, together with other initiates of a higher spiritual authority, for example the Pope in the Vatican, conveys his insight, which came to him in his conversation with Hitler, as an inner insight, the Pope will say: That is a great insight, but we wait ten more generations; if it's a good Pope. Now we speak another language. "

The psychoanalyst Micha Hilgers (2003) considers Hellinger's methodology to be “incomprehensible” and accuses him: “With a mixture of theological phrases and mysticistic stories, simple truths and absolute (sometimes absurd) value judgments, Bert Hellinger claims comprehensive help for everything and everyone to be able to offer. Demanding respect and humility towards parents and family members, Hellinger treats his patients arrogantly and shamelessly, disrespectfully and with the attitude of the omniscient. ” Stavros Mentzos - also a psychoanalyst - writes in 2006 that the image of Hellinger's arrogant authority, which is dangerous for patients, is often conveyed. Although there were few suspicious moments for him, he could not agree in principle.

In its Potsdam Declaration in July 2004, the Systemic Society assessed Hellinger's practice largely negatively:

“Today, however, we see the point at which not only essential parts of Bert Hellinger's practice - and many of his followers - but also many of his statements and procedures are explicitly to be viewed as incompatible with the basic premises of systemic therapy , for example
  • the neglect of any form of order clarification and concern orientation
  • the use of mystifying and self-immunizing descriptions ("something bigger", "taken into service", etc.)
  • the use of unrestrictedly generalized formulations and dogmatic interpretations ("always if", "bad effect", "punished with death", "the only way", "the right forfeits" and the like).
  • the use of potentially humiliating interventions and rituals of submission
  • the allegedly compelling connection of the interventions with certain forms of human and world view (e.g. with regard to gender issues, parenthood, binationality, etc.)
  • the idea of ​​having a truth in which one person participates more than another. This leads to the use of absolutizing forms of description and implies that no cooperative partnership is sought. "

The allegations contained in this Potsdam Declaration are individually and critically treated by Wilfried Nelles in The Hellinger Controversy . Gunthard Weber did not sign this Potsdam Declaration because he did not understand Hellinger's services to the constellation in it to be adequately appreciated.

A large number of family members, therapists and journalists have distanced themselves (more or less half-heartedly) from Hellinger, as did the German Society for Systemic Therapy and Family Therapy (DGSF) in 2003, which judged Hellinger's methods to be ethically unjustifiable and dangerous for those affected.

Works (selection)

  • Gunthard Weber (ed.): Two kinds of luck. Bert Hellinger's systemic psychotherapy. Carl-Auer, Heidelberg 1995, ISBN 3-89670-197-5 .
  • Orders of love. Carl-Auer, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-89670-215-7 .
  • With Gabriele ten Hövel: Acknowledge what is. Conversations about entanglement and healing. Kösel, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-466-30400-8 .
  • Walk with the soul. Herder, Freiburg 2001, ISBN 3-451-27579-1 .
  • Orders of helping. A training book. Carl-Auer, Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 3-89670-421-4 .
  • Thoughts on the move. Kösel, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-466-30642-6 .
  • Thoughts of God. Their roots and their effects. Kösel, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-466-30656-6 .
  • Rachel cries for her children. Family vacancies with Holocaust survivors in Israel. Preface: Haim Dasberg. Herder, Freiburg 2004, ISBN 3-451-05443-4 .
  • Truth in motion. Herder, Freiburg 2005, ISBN 3-451-28480-4 .
  • With Gabriele ten Hövel: a long way. Conversations about fate, reconciliation and happiness. Kösel, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-466-30694-9 .
  • My life. My work. Ariston, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-424-20195-6 .

literature

  • Colin Goldner (Ed.): The will to fate. Bert Hellinger's doctrine of salvation. Ueberreuter Verlag, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-8000-3920-6 .
  • Klaus Weber : Mocking the victims through reconciliation with the perpetrators . Bert Hellinger's project of submission. In: Klaus Weber: Blind spots . Psychological views of fascism and racism. Argument, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 978-3-88619-296-0 (= Argument Sonderband AS , also habilitation thesis at the University of Oldenburg , also in: Der Wille zum Schicksal. Bert Hellinger's doctrine of salvation. [Ed. Colin Goldner], p 253-264.).
  • Werner Haas: The Hellinger virus. On the risks and side effects of constellations. Asanger, Kröning 2009, ISBN 978-3-89334-538-0 .
  • Gert Höppner: Does humility heal where fate works? Evaluation study on the effects of family constellations according to Bert Hellinger. Profil, Munich 2001 (Diss. Univ. Munich 2001) ISBN 3-89019-508-3 ; Online edition at Auer, Heidelberg 2006 ISBN 978-3-89670-566-2 .
  • Gunthard Weber, Fritz B. Simon, Gunther Schmidt: Constellation work revisited. ... according to Hellinger? Carl-Auer Systeme Verlag, Heidelberg 2005.
  • Wilfried Nelles: The Hellinger principle. Information and clarifications. Herder, Freiburg 2003.
  • Wilfried Nelles: The Hellinger Controversy. Facts - Background - Clarifications. Herder, Freiburg 2009.

Textbooks, some of which relate to Hellinger

  • Arist von Schlippe, Jochen Schweitzer : Textbook of systemic therapy and advice I. The basic knowledge. 2nd (completely revised) edition, Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2013 (first edition 1996). ISBN 978-3-525-40185-9 .
  • Arist von Schlippe, Jochen Schweitzer: Textbook of systemic therapy and counseling II. The disorder-specific knowledge. 5th edition, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2014 (first edition 2006), ISBN 978-3-525-46256-0 .

Web links

Wikiquote: Bert Hellinger  - Quotes
Commons : Bert Hellinger  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ ARD, April 19, 2004: "Report Munich" (by Andrea Mocellin).
  2. ^ TAZ, June 29, 2004: The Psycho Headquarters
  3. ↑ Munich Working Group for Psychoanalysis: Confirmation for submission to the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (PDF).
  4. ↑ Munich Working Group for Psychoanalysis: Confirmation for submission to the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (PDF), p. 1.
  5. ↑ A Long Way , p. 73.
  6. ↑ Oliver König: Give and Take. Sociological remarks on a psychotherapeutic concept (PDF).
  7. ↑ Ursula Franke, "Systemische Familienaufstellung", 6th edition, Munich: Profil 2004, ISBN 978-3-89019-566-7 .
  8. ↑ Marco de Carvalho, Jörgen Klußmann, 2010: Conflict Management in Afghanistan. Systemic conflict transformation in practical use in a large group conflict (PDF), p. 35.
  9. ↑ Marco de Carvalho, Jörgen Klußmann, 2010: Conflict Management in Afghanistan. The systemic conflict transformation in practical use in a large group conflict (PDF), p. 35 f.
  10. ^ Hellinger: Family Constellations and Conscience. In: System constellation practice. Issue 2/2001, p. 8: “It [the family constellation] brings back the order of the collective conscience, but without giving up the achievements of the personal conscience. Rather, it connects them on a higher level, which enables the individual to fit into a larger whole beyond the boundaries of his own group, which eliminates the differences between individual people and groups to such an extent that they can overcome what divides them without to sacrifice what is their own. In this sense, the family constellation primarily serves the purpose of reconciliation. "
  11. ↑ Marco de Carvalho, Jörgen Klußmann, 2010: Conflict Management in Afghanistan. The systemic conflict transformation in practical use in a large group conflict (PDF), p. 42: “The pressure of a bad conscience offers the person or the group the opportunity to correct. Some systemic analysts speak of two different levels of conscience: the individual conscience, which watches over the existence of close ties and is thus more clearly perceptible as a good or bad conscience, and the collective conscience, which is less consciously perceived and of the collective as a whole wakes up and ensures balance on a higher level. The higher level ensures that the forces work unconsciously and in secret. They can be made visible through systemic approaches and placed in the service of reconciliation. "
  12. ↑ Thomas Gehrmann / Ursula Steinbach: Walking with the Spirit. A textbook for spiritual family constellations according to Bert Hellinger . 2nd revised edition 2015. Verlag ISM Kassel, Kassel 2014, ISBN 978-3-9816863-0-2 , p. 208 .
  13. ↑ Michael Utsch (Evangelical Central Office for Weltanschauungsfragen): The Hellinger scene is drifting apart: dispute over method and training
  14. ↑ Albert Lenz: Interventions in children of mentally ill parents: Basics, diagnostics and therapeutic measures. Göttingen 2008, p. 29: " Boszormenagy-Nagy regards parentification as an imbalance of mutual give and take, with less executive and more emotional functions in the foreground."
  15. ↑ Oliver König: Family Worlds. Theory and practice of family constellations. Stuttgart 2004, p. 100: “Justice and loyalty, so the assumption of Stierlin and Boszormenyi-Nagy, are the normative core of familial reciprocity. Bert Hellinger took up these ideas, added them to them, condensed them and formulated them in a more accessible way than is the case in the rather bulky writings of Boszormenyi-Nagy. In this context, justice is not understood as a moral category, but as the product of an exchange process that is set in motion and sustained by family dynamics. "
  16. ↑ Hellinger: Basic Orders of Life ( Memento from June 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ): “The order of give and take is given to us by our conscience. It serves to balance give and take and thus the exchange in our relationships. As soon as we take or receive something from someone, we feel obliged to give something to them as well, something of equal value. That means: we feel indebted to him until we give him something in return and thereby settle the debt. After that we feel innocent and free again towards him. This conscience does not leave us in peace until we have balanced. We feel all movements of conscience as guilt or innocence, in whatever areas. "
  17. ↑ Marco de Carvalho, Jörgen Klußmann, 2010: Conflict Management in Afghanistan. The systemic conflict transformation in practical use in a large group conflict (PDF), p. 43 ff.
  18. ↑ Christa Renoldner, Eva Scala, Reinhold Rabenstein: Simply systemic. Systemic basics and methods for your educational work. Münster 2007, p. 104 ff.
  19. ↑ The right to membership applies to individuals in the family system; in the case of organizations, it should correctly read: That no one may be carelessly excluded from the organizational system. Hellinger formulates as follows: "As soon as a member of the family is refused or denied this membership, a disorder arises with far-reaching consequences." ( Basic order 1: The same right ( Memento from June 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ))
  20. ↑ Bert Hellinger according to his own statements on a course in Vienna in 2008.
  21. ↑ Werner Haas: Family Constellations according to Hellinger - a destructive cult? (Skeptiker 1/2008): “Hellinger swears by the seniority principle: Anyone who was there before is to be classified as a higher priority due to this fact. The dynamics of give and take is mainly viewed from the perspective of the transmission of life, the individual thus largely reduced to its function as a species. By definition, children are takers and parents are givers. "
  22. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 19, 2010: Psycho-Guru: Soul healing every minute , p. 2: He [Klaus Weber] regularly debates about this with students: “When I read out loud sentences in the seminar in which Hellinger claims that only one right 'Order' leads to recovery, reasonable people often do not know whether to laugh about it or be upset. "
  23. ↑ Viktoria Joelle Jost: Systemic constellation work: Overcoming symbiotic entanglements. Hamburg 2012, p. 19: "Supporters of structural family therapy (including Minuchin ) are of the opinion that the hierarchical order between parents and children [...]"
  24. ↑ Manfred Cierpka (Ed.): Handbuch der Familiendiagnostik. Heidelberg 1996, p. 387 f.
  25. ↑ Klaus Grochowiak, 2002: Orders of Power ( Memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF), p. 17 ff.
  26. ↑ Wilfried Nelles: The movements of the soul and the conscience (PDF; 51 kB).
  27. ↑ Wilfried Nelles: Bert Hellinger, Adolf Hitler and National Socialism (PDF), p. 2.
  28. ↑ Alfred Ramoda Austermann (2009): confusion states resolved - The integration of offenders and victims as a preparation ritual (PDF).
  29. ↑ Colin Goldner: Rottenführer der Psychoszene : "The reason for the enormous acceptance of Hellinger lies in the arch reactionary and thus zeitgeist-compatible orientation of the belief system that stands behind his approach: Back behind everything that the women's movement fought for, behind '68 , the bourgeois achievements of the 19th and 18th centuries, humanism and the Enlightenment - back to Old Testament mosaic world and value systems in which patriarchal clan and family hierarchies were still unquestioned. "
  30. ↑ the strategy of the equivalence series ( Laclau / Mouffe 1991) - are linked / connoted as synonymous, for example (Schultz 2006): "cultural", "socio-cultural", "religious", "sexist", "patriarchal", "fundamentalist", "Conservative" or "regressive" (Susanne Schultz: Hegemony - Governmentality - Biopower. Reproductive Risks and the Transformation of International Population Policy. Münster 2006, p. 181).
  31. ↑ Sigrid Vonwinckel: Hellinger - a backlash episode. Critique from a feminist point of view. In: The will to fate (Ed. Colin Goldner), p. 178 ff.
  32. ↑ Eva Madelung: The position of Bert Hellinger's system-related psychotherapy in the spectrum of short therapies (doc; 61.5 kB), p. 4 ff.
  33. ↑ Werner Haas: Family Constellations according to Hellinger - a destructive cult? (Skeptiker 1/2008) gwup.org Retrieved April 4, 2014
  34. ↑ Michael Utsch: The Hellinger scene is drifting apart: dispute over method and training
  35. ↑ Colin Goldner: Esoteric frippery. The Hellingerian scene. In: The will to fate. Bert Hellinger's doctrine of salvation. (Ed. Colin Goldner), p. 66 ff.
  36. ↑ Martin Buchholz, “There sits the cold heart” (DIE ZEIT dossier, August 21, 2003).
  37. ^ Arist von Schlippe, Jochen Schweitzer: Textbook of systemic therapy and advice. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1996; 2013 (2nd edition, translations in 7 languages). ISBN 978-3-525-40185-9 .
  38. ↑ Hunter Beaumont Interview, Part 2: Orders of Love. Bert Hellinger's Systemic Therapy and Gestalt Therapy.
  39. ↑ Beate Lakotta: Thank you, dear papi. In: Der Spiegel, 7/2002.
  40. ↑ Gabriele Ten Hövel in the foreword to A Long Way: Conversations about Fate, Reconciliation and Happiness. Munich 2005, p. 13 f.
  41. ^ Zeit Online, August 21, 2003: Family: There is a cold heart . See TAZ, June 29, 2004: The Psycho Headquarters . See FAZ, January 8, 2010: Heike Dierbach: “Die Seelen-Pfuscher”. News from the knowing field . See Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 8, 2010: Family constellation according to Hellinger: When ancestors make you sick . See Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 19, 2010: Psycho-Guru: Healing the soul every minute . See Zeit Online, June 21, 2011: Depression with angels (page 2: The person seeking advice no longer trusts himself to make his own decisions) . See Spiegel Online, October 20, 2014: Controversial family constellation: Psycho course in a fast run .
  42. ↑ Colin Goldner: Rottenführer der Psychoszene
  43. ↑ Klaus Weber: Mocking the victims through reconciliation with the perpetrators. Bert Hellinger's project of submission. In: The will to fate. Bert Hellinger's doctrine of salvation. (Ed. Colin Goldner), Berlin 2003, pp. 253-264. See Klaus Weber, 2005: Hellinger's family constellations. Presentation and critical appraisal of a pseudotherapeutic long-term hit. In: The longing for health, salvation and healing (PDF), p. 37 ff.
  44. ^ Arist von Schlippe, May 2, 2004: Open letter from Arist von Schlippe to Bert Hellinger (PDF), p. 1; According to Gottesgedanken , Cologne 2004, p. 247 ( preview on Google.Books ).
  45. ^ Arist von Schlippe, May 2, 2004: Open letter from Arist von Schlippe to Bert Hellinger (PDF) quoted Hellinger et al. a. as follows: "(The) Jewish people (find) their peace with themselves, with their Arab neighbors and with the world, when the last Jew has said the funeral prayer for Hitler." (from: Going with the soul , 2001, p. 50 - there the corresponding passage reads: “This ( Hasidic ) teacher said one evening that the Jewish people only then find their peace with themselves, with their Arab neighbors and with the world, even if the last Jew for Hitler said the funeral prayer . That's great. "). Arist von Schlippe was made (critically) aware of this deviation from the original quotation by one of the editors (Bertold Ulsamer) of the publication concerned - cf. Open letter from Dr. Bertold Ulsamer to Dr. Arist von Schlippe ( memento from November 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ).
  46. ↑ Koert van der Felde: Therapist Hellinger blijft flirt with Hitler . In: Trouw , March 15, 2005, p. 5. Retrieved June 20, 2009. 
  47. ↑ Arist von Schlippe, November 2004: ... and that's why you're a moose. An open letter and its consequences (short version; PDF; 168 kB), p. 1: “My actual criticism stems from a feeling of responsibility as chairman of the systemic society, an awareness that the terms“ systemic ”and“ systemic thinking ”are related relates to a certain tradition that cannot be watered down at will without losing its expressiveness. ”On p. 9 there is a statement by a Jewish psychotherapist published:“ We all have only respect from Bert Hellinger and a deep connection with the Jewish Fate felt and experienced. He clearly described the perpetrators as murderers and Hitler as the perpetrator behind the perpetrators. There was never the slightest doubt about his attitude and the trust that hundreds of Jews in and outside Israel have placed in him proves that. It is perhaps the worst and at the same time most cynical form of anti-Semitism to mock this trust by turning Bert now makes an admirer of Hitler as if the Jews who worked with Bert had not noticed or were unable to notice that they had placed themselves in the hands of a Jew who despised them. The smear campaign against Bert Hellinger left us speechless for a long time, we thought that silence and non-reaction were the appropriate answer to the defilements of Bert's work. ”(Dr. Yasmin Guy, clinical psychologist and psychotherapist, Israel).
  48. ↑ Interview by Haim Dasberg in: Praxis der Systemaufstellung 2/2005 (PDF), p. 20.
  49. ↑ Micha Hilgers: The pseudotherapist. Clinical arguments against Hellinger. In: The Will to Destiny (Ed. Colin Goldner), Berlin 2003, p. 64: "... according to equally incomprehensible rules ..."
  50. ↑ Micha Hilgers: The pseudotherapist. Clinical arguments against Hellinger. In: The will to fate (Ed. Colin Goldner), Berlin 2003, p. 57.
  51. ↑ ZIST Academy for Psychotherapy, Stavros Mentzos, 2006: Family constellations - attempt a criticism, but also an appreciation from the psychoanalytical point of view : “So the often conveyed image of an arrogant, stubborn, indirectly sadistic, reckless slip who the patient with his authority and can bring his remarks to despair or even to suicide, according to my experience and information does not correspond to reality, although sometimes, rarely, something in the direction of the suspicious cannot be dismissed out of hand. "
  52. ^ "Potsdam Declaration" of the Systemic Society, July 2004; As online publication: Press release of the Systemic Society of July 1, 2007
  53. ↑ Wilfried Nelles: The Hellinger controversy. Facts - Background - Clarifications. Freiburg 2009, p. 79 ff.
  54. ↑ Within the Potsdam Declaration, Hellinger was briefly acknowledged as follows: “Hellinger's merit remains for having contributed to condensing the constellation work. He has developed new and innovative approaches, especially with regard to the possible dissolution of entanglement dynamics. ”See press release of the Systemic Society of July 1, 2007
  55. ↑ Gunthard Weber: On the criticism of Bert Hellinger. A subsequent, short excursion. In: Constellation work revisited. ... according to Hellinger? Heidelberg 2005, p. 140 f: “The main reason I did not sign the Potsdam Declaration, however, is because the declaration contained the merits of Bert Hellinger, namely his countless, valuable, innovative and far-reaching insights and focussing in many areas and the abundance of procedures developed by him do not see in any way sufficiently appreciated. "
  56. ↑ Werner Haas: Family Constellations according to Hellinger - a destructive cult? (Skeptiker 1/2008): “The majority of those openly professing Hellinger can be attributed to the Eso scene. But despite the science-shy and blatantly anti-enlightenment tenor, there are not a few graduated and doctoral medical and psychological therapists colleagues among them. In my opinion, they are wrongly holding their degrees. In addition, under the pressure of critical reports and analyzes of Hellinger's practices, a wave of half-hearted distancing from the founding father has set in, without actually saying goodbye to the central contents of the current constellation philosophy and practice. "
  57. ^ Siegfried Rosner: System constellation as action research. Basics, fields of application, perspectives. Volume 1. Munich and Mering 2007, p. 153: "So you had to distance yourself from Hellinger in order to be perceived as serious at all."
  58. ^ German Society for Systemic Therapy and Family Therapy: Statement by the DGSF on the subject of family constellations
personal data
SURNAME Hellinger, Bert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hellinger, Anton (real name); Suitbert (order name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German family therapist
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Glue
DATE OF DEATH 19th September 2019