Chris Paul (author)

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Chris Paul (* 1962 ) is a German grief counselor , therapist (alternative practitioner for psychotherapy) and author.

Life

After studying Protestant theology , German and musicology , Chris Paul worked in publishing, as an exhibition organizer and as an author. From the beginning of the nineties she offered groups and seminars for mourners alongside these activities. She continued her education in various fields, studying sociology and social behavioral sciences (with a BA ). Since 1998 she has been working in the field of grief counseling as an alternative practitioner for psychotherapy (HeilPrG) in her own practice in Bonn.

In 2000, an intensive cooperation with the association AGUS (Relatives for Suizid) (based in Bayreuth) began. Paul developed a series of bereavement seminars for relatives after a suicide, which are offered annually by a team of colleagues from AGUS under the title “Dare to trust”. In addition, she conducts regular training courses for the voluntary leaders of AGUS self-help groups .

In 2002 Chris Paul was elected chairman of the TrauerInstitut Deutschland eV (TID), Bonn. In 2009 Chris Paul took over the Mourning Institute Germany as her own company. The advanced and advanced training of members of the most varied of helping professions is an important focus of their work. She was jointly responsible for the creation of the standards of the Federal Association for Trauerbegleitung (BVT) , according to which she aligns her work.

Paul works in private practice in Bonn, publishes regularly for the professional public and those affected. She enriches her book presentations and lectures with elements from theater and music. She is a trainer in her own institute (since 2009 no longer in the legal form of an eV, but as a private institute with Paul as the owner) and for numerous other institutions.

Main topics of your work

The thematic background of their work is related to various theoretical models of the mourning process:

  • The model of the tasks of mourning according to James William Worden , especially his reformulation of the fourth task, which calls for "to move the dead to a new place".
  • Dennis Klass' approach to healthy and natural “continuing bonds”, “continued ties” to the deceased. She therefore contrasts the previously common approach of letting go with a holistic culture of remembrance.
  • Robert Neimeyer's approach, which assumes that people in the process of grief reformulate their own life story, their beliefs and basic convictions until the loss they experience has found a place in them that gives them the courage to continue living.

In 2017 she presented an integrative model of these different theories of grief with the “Kaleidoscope of Mourning”, which she clarified in several publications.

Particularly important topics of her work are the topic of complicated grief / persistent grief disorder , that of grief after suicide , as well as the meaning of "guilt" in the grief process. In 2009 she presented her approach of "constructive debt management", in which between "normative "And" instrumental "accusations are distinguished.

Works (selection)

Publications in book form

  • Why did you do this to us? A companion book for those who grieve after a suicide. Completely revised and supplemented new edition. Gütersloh 2018, ISBN 978-3-579-07312-5
  • I live with my grief , Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2017, ISBN 978-3-579-07308-8 .
  • We live with your grief. For friends and relatives Gütersloh 2017, ISBN 978-3-579-07309-5 .
  • Don't be afraid of someone else's tears - accompany grieving friends and relatives , Gütersloh 2013, ISBN 978-3-579-07303-3 .
  • How can I live with my grief? An accompanying book , Gütersloh, 4th edition, 2012.
  • Does this ever end? Mourning after suicide and time (= AGUS series: Help in mourning after suicide, Volume 8), Bayreuth 2012, 2nd revised edition: Bayreuth 2018, ISBN 978-3-941059-07-8 .
  • Assignment of guilt in the Tauer process after suicide , (= AGUS series: Help in mourning after suicide), Bayreuth 2011, 3rd revised edition: Bayreuth 2019.
  • with Elisabeth Brockmann: Mourning after suicide in children and adolescents (= AGUS series: Help in mourning after suicide, Volume 7), 5th revised edition Bayreuth 2010.
  • Establishing and leading AGUS self-help groups (= AGUS series: Help in mourning after suicide), Bayreuth 2010, ISBN 978-3-941059-01-6 .
  • Guilt - power - meaning. Workbook for accompanying questions of guilt in the mourning process , Gütersloh 2010, ISBN 978-3-579-06833-6 .
  • (Author), with Elisabeth Brockmann (Author, AGUS eV) (Ed.): Mourning after suicide in children and adolescents (= AGUS series: Help in mourning after suicide), Bayreuth (3rd edition) 2007, ISBN 978 -3-941059-00-9 .
  • Suizidtrauer ebi support children and adolescents fearlessly , (= AGUS series: Help in mourning after suicide, Volume 1), Bayreuth (6th revised edition) 2018
  • Why did you do this to us? An accompanying book for those in mourning after someone has committed suicide , (5th, revised and expanded edition) Gütersloh 2006, ISBN 978-3-579-06812-1 .
  • (Hrsg.), With Monika Müller (Hrsg.), TrauerInstitut Deutschland eV (Hrsg.): Quality in grief counseling. Documentation of the 2nd NRW Mourning Conference 9./14. June 2002 (= Paul Timmermans (Ed.), Praxisforschung Trauer, Volume 1), Wuppertal 2003, ISBN 3-9808351-1-1 .
  • Documentation sheets for voluntary grief counseling in the context of hospice services , Bonn 2003, ISBN 3-933154-48-0 .
  • (Ed.): New ways in grief and dying care. Background and experience reports for practice , Gütersloh 2001, ISBN 3-579-02308-X , completely revised and supplemented new edition, Gütersloh 2011, ISBN 978-3-579-06835-0 .
  • How can I live with my grief? An accompanying book (original edition) (= Gütersloher Taschenbücher, Volume 925), Gütersloh 2000, ISBN 3-579-00925-7 .
  • Why did you do this to us? An accompanying book for those in mourning after someone has committed suicide (original edition) (= Gütersloher Taschenbücher, Volume 989), Gütersloh 1998, (4th, updated edition) 2004, ISBN 3-579-00989-3 .
  • (Ed.) (Catalog editing), Finally forty. Painting, installation, sculpture, photography, environment, performance, video. June 10 - September 4, 1994, Women's Museum; (Exhibition: Endlich Vierzig), (= Gabriele Münter Prize for female artists from 40; (1) 1994) Exhibition Endlich Vierzig, Bonn: Frauen-Museum 1994, ISBN 3-928239-29-5 .
  • Self defense. Story , (2nd edition) St. Augustin 1992, ISBN 3-927075-00-0 .
  • Bereavement. Story , Hohenfels, Wiesbaden 1991, ISBN 3-927075-05-1 .

Articles in compilations (selection)

  • Mourning and Guilt , in: Erika Schärer-Santschi (Ed.), Mourning. Accompany grieving people in palliative care and nursing, Bern 2012, ISBN 978-3-456-85030-6 , pp. 172–180.
  • Denied grief , in: Erika Schärer-Santschi (Ed.), Mourning. Accompanying grieving people in palliative care and nursing, Bern 2012, ISBN 978-3-456-85030-6 , pp. 225-231.
  • with Monika Müller, understanding and accompanying grief processes , in: Cornelia Knipping (Ed.), Textbook Palliative Care, Bern 2006, 2nd, revised and corrected edition, Bern 2007, (= Fachpflege - Palliative Carüe) ISBN 978-3-456- 84460-2 , pp. 410-419.
  • Plea for the meaning of science and research in the field of grief counseling , in: Chris Paul (ed.), Monika Müller (ed.), TrauerInstitut Deutschland eV (ed.), Quality in bereavement counseling. Documentation of the 2nd NRW Mourning Conference 9./14. June 2002 (= Paul Timmermans (Ed.), Praxisforschung Trauer, Volume 1), Wuppertal 2003, ISBN 3-9808351-1-1 , pp. 91–98.
  • Mourning - from the quiet little room in the middle of life , in: Claudia Nikodem (editor), Association for contributions to feminist theory and practice (ed.) Dying & Death: that's too close to me - I don't want anything to do with that (= contributions to feminist theory and practice, Volume 59, Volume 24), Cologne 2001, pp. 69–82.

Article (selection)

  • Grief and depression - unequal sisters , in: MedReport 30, 30th year, 2006.
  • On-site training - a special training concept , in: Die Hospiz-Zeitschrift, 6th year, 2004, issue 22.
  • Thinking Guilt and Feeling Guilty. Lecture at the 5th Congress of the German Society for Palliative Medicine , Aachen, 2004.
  • A differentiated view of grief , in: Die Hospiz-Zeitschrift, 7th year, 2005, issue 26.
  • Grief after suicide. Show respect and compassion , in: Archbischöfliches Generalvikariat Paderborn (Diözesanarbeitsgemeinschaft für Trauerbegleitung) (Ed.), Rundbrief Trauerbegleitung 2010, p. 3.
  • Every death is different, every grief too , in: Lachesis. Trade journal of the professional association for alternative practitioners, No. 28, 11/2001.
  • Monika Müller: sadness, work. How much work does a life take? In: Leidfaden , Issue 3, 2012, ISSN  2192-1202 , pp. 5–6.

Literature on Chris Paul (selection)

  • Wolfgang Thielmann, Coping with anger at the dead. Sadness. Suicide, the taboo / [reviewed by:] Wolfgang Thielmann, 1999. Review by: Chris Paul, Why did you do this to us? A companion book for those in mourning after someone has committed suicide. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2nd edition, 1999 , in: Rheinischer Merkur , Volume 54, 1999, Issue 47, (November 19, 1999), o. P.
  • Julia Fisching-Wirth, Mental Resilience and Mourning. Training day for employees in grief counseling in January 2010 , in: Archbishop's General Vicariate Paderborn (Diocesan Working Group for Grief Counseling) (publisher), circular "Grief counseling" 2010, p. 2.
  • Christian Fleck, review of September 10, 2012 on: Chris Paul: Guilt - Power - Meaning (Mourning Process), Gütersloh 2010, ISBN 978-3-579-06833-6 . In: socialnet reviews, ISSN  2190-9245 , available online: socialnet reviews: Chris Paul: Schuld - Macht - Sinn (grief process) | socialnet.de .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quality standards . Bv-trauerbegleitung.de. Archived from the original on November 27, 2010. Retrieved January 29, 2011.
  2. ↑ mourning Institute Germany, service portal for grief and bereavement support . Trauerinstitut.de. Retrieved January 29, 2011.
  3. ↑ See James William Worden: Counseling and therapy in bereavement. A manual , 4th, revised and expanded edition, with an afterward by Meinrad Perrez . Translated by Irmela Erckenbrecht (= Clinical Practice), Bern 2011, (Grief counseling and grief therapy (German)), ISBN 978-3-456-84885-3
  4. ^ Chris Paul: Mourning and Depression - Unequal Sisters (PDF; 29 kB) chrispaul.de. Archived from the original on September 8, 2013. Retrieved January 29, 2011.
  5. ↑ Chris Paul: Bereavement Companion . Chrispaul.de. Archived from the original on August 15, 2010. Retrieved January 29, 2011.
  6. ↑ Chris Paul: Bereavement Companion . Chrispaul.de. Archived from the original on August 15, 2010. Retrieved January 29, 2011.
  7. ↑ Chris Paul: Bereavement Companion . Chrispaul.de. Archived from the original on August 15, 2010. Retrieved January 29, 2011.
  8. ↑ a b Circular “Mourning Support” 2010 , AG Mourning Support, Paderborn 2010
  9. ↑ Chris Paul: Bereavement Companion . Chrispaul.de. Archived from the original on August 15, 2010. Retrieved January 29, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Paul, Chris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychotherapist, grief counselor and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1962