German Society for Individual Psychology

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German Society for Individual Psychology (DGIP)
legal form registered association
purpose Psychoanalytic society for the dissemination, deepening and further development of the individual psychology founded by Alfred Adler (1870–1937)
Seat Munich
founding 1962
1st chairperson Hanna Marx
Manager Manuela Kroh
Members 1180 (as of 01/01/2016)

File: German Society for Individual Psychology logo.svg The German Society for Individual Psychology Association (DGIP) is a Founded in 1962, psychoanalytic professional society for dissemination, deepening and development of of Alfred Adler founded the individual psychology . It is an association of doctors, psychologists, educators and representatives of other professional groups and is open to anyone interested in individual psychology. In the context of the diverse development of theory, individual psychology sees itself as its own, but at the same time closely connected with other currents of psychoanalysis and in a diverse exchange of depth psychological approach. The registered office of the company is in Munich, the office is in Gotha / Thuringia.

history

Predecessor Organizations

After a period of stimulating collaboration, Alfred Adler left the circle around Sigmund Freud in 1911 due to irreconcilable differences and founded his “Association for Free Psychoanalytical Research” in Vienna, which he renamed in 1913 as the “Association for Individual Psychology”. At that time, Freud, who was mainly arguing from the point of view of instinctual psychology, contrasted Adler with ideas in which he emphasized the social relationship of humans. In doing so, he developed a relational emphasis on psychoanalysis at an early stage. a. found its way back into mainstream psychoanalysis within the framework of ego psychology , object relationship theory , attachment theory and self psychology . In Germany, the Munich doctor Leonhard Seif founded a "Society for Applied Psychology" in Munich in 1919, from which he formed a "Society for Comparative Individual Psychology" in 1920 as the first individual psychological local group outside Vienna.

Alfred Adler (left) and Leonhard Seif at a meeting in Salzburg in 1925

After the first international congress for individual psychology in Munich in 1922, further sections (as larger regional structures), local groups (OG) and working groups (AG), in which individual psychology in Germany was organized. The 5th International Congress for Individual Psychology took place in Berlin in 1930 with more than 2000 participants. After Adler's move to the USA in 1932, however, the individual psychological tradition in Germany was almost completely torn down under the Nazi dictatorship. It was not until 1960 that individual psychologists began to organize again.

history

In 1962, Oliver Brachfeld , Wolfgang Metzger , Johannes Neumann, Kurt Seelmann , Alfons Simon , Felix Scherke and Kurt Weinmann founded the German Alfred Adler Society (AAG), which was renamed the German Society for Individual Psychology (DGIP) in 1970. Changes in the club life of the DGIP (including the increasing number of members, the founding of the Alfred Adler Institute, changes in the legal requirements for the training and further education of psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and child and adolescent psychotherapists) made structural changes necessary several times in the following years. When the statutes were changed in 1994, the DGIP was given its current face with the following bodies: the federal board, regional associations and regional boards, further training institutes, delegate assemblies, specialist groups, professional groups, working groups, the Alfred Adler Academy and the arbitration board.

After its founding chairman Wolfgang Metzger (1960–1970), Erik Blumenthal (1970–1974), Rainer Schmidt (1974–1987), Ulrike Lehmkuhl (1987–2004), Heiner Sasse (2004–2011) and Gisela Eife were the first chairmen of the association (2011–2013) Albrecht Stadler (2013–2016) and Hanna Marx (since 2016). The examination of one's own depth psychological roots within the DGIP made it possible to overcome the distinction between the early years and other psychoanalytic currents and to develop an intensive exchange relationship. The DGIP is linked to the other psychoanalytical professional associations organized in Germany in the German Society for Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Depth Psychology (DGPT) as a professional-political umbrella company.

On the history of the advanced training institutes recognized by the DGIP

In 1967, the Alfred Adler Society started its first national further training courses for psychotherapy in Aachen and Münster, which were completed in 1969. In 1970, the company's first “regional circle” was founded in Munich to offer regional advanced training (instead of the previously centrally organized). In 1971, the "Alfred Adler Institute for Individual Psychology eV", Munich, emerged from this regional circle. It was necessary to establish legally independent institutes in order to gain recognition as a further training institute by the medical associations , statutory health insurance associations and later state examination offices. After the Munich Institute of DGIP were as further education institutions in 1974, the Alfred Adler Institute Dusseldorf, 1975, the Alfred Adler Institute North (headquartered in Delmenhorst), 1976, the Alfred Adler Institute Aachen-Cologne , 1992, Alfred Adler Society for Individual Psychology in Berlin and the Alfred Adler Institute for Free Psychoanalysis in Mainz in 1996. In accordance with the statutes, all institutes are involved in the DGIP as supporting members both institutionally and through their participation in various organs of the DGIP (e.g. specialist group for advanced training, specialist group for training analysis ). The Alfred Adler Academy was founded in 2009 as an organ for the bundling of further training offers and integrated into the DGIP.

activity

According to the statutes, the society serves in particular to disseminate, scientifically supplement, deepen and further develop the comparative individual psychology founded by Alfred Adler, the application of its methods and findings in depth psychology-based and analytical psychotherapy and in depth psychological counseling as well as the promotion and implementation of everyone with individual psychology directly or indirectly related tasks. The purpose of the association is u. a. Realized through the training and further education of psychoanalysts and psychotherapists for children, adolescents and adults as well as of individual psychological advisors and supervisors according to the framework guidelines issued by the DGIP in the further education institutes recognized by the DGIP.

The multi-day annual meetings that have been held annually since 1980 enable members to have an intensive professional exchange across various professional groups. Interested parties get an impression of the diversity of today's individual psychology. The contributions to the annual conferences are published in a conference proceedings. In addition, the DGIP regularly organizes other specialist information events, exhibitions and congresses and maintains an archive of individual psychology in Gotha.

In cooperation with the Swiss Society and the Austrian Association for Individual Psychology, the DGIP has been publishing the Zeitschrift für Individualpsychologie as a scientific journal since 1976 . It has been published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht since 2003 .

organization

Even during Alfred Adler's lifetime, individual psychology radiated beyond medicine and psychotherapy into other areas of life such as pedagogy and humanistic psychology. In this tradition, the DGIP is open to anyone interested in individual psychology. The members are made up of specialist members (psychoanalysts and psychotherapists for children, adolescents or adults as well as individual psychological consultants who have completed further training at one of the DGIP institutes), candidates in corresponding training / further training and psychoanalytic laypeople who are in various professional fields Exercise and develop Alfred Adler's depth psychological approach in practice, theory and science. The supporting members include the DGIP institutes and (without a seat or vote in the assembly of delegates) currently three other organizations with an individual psychological focus.

The highest representative and decision-making body of the DGIP is the delegates' assembly, to which delegates from the regional associations, the DGIP institutes as well as from the specialist and professional groups are sent. The DGIP federal board consists of five specialist members who are elected every three years by the delegates' assembly. According to the statutes, the first chairperson must be identified as a DGIP training analyst.

The DGIP is a member of the International Association of Individual Psychology (IAIP).

The seat of the association is in Munich, the office is in Gotha / Thuringia.

literature

  • Almuth Bruder-Bezzel (1999): History of Individual Psychology . 2. edit again Edition Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
  • Horst Gröner (1987): 25 years of the German Society for Individual Psychology (1962–1987) . Zf Individual Psychol. 12, pp. 55-69.
  • Horst Gröner (1992): On the history of individual psychology in Europe . Zf Individual Psychol. 17, pp. 309-320.
  • Franzjosef Mohr (1982): Adler and his time - data on life and work . In: D. Eicke (Ed.): Kindler's Psychology of the 20th Century, Depth Psychology , Vol. 4, pp. 3–5.
  • Rainer Schmidt (ed.) (1989): The individual psychology of Alfred Adlers - a textbook. Frankfurt: Fischer paperback.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.dgip.de/index.php/bundesvorstand
  2. ↑ What does individual psychology mean? on the DGIP website , accessed on July 1, 2017.
  3. ↑ Horst Gröner (1992): On the history of individual psychology in Europe . Zf Individual Psychol. 17, pp. 309-320.
  4. ^ Rainer Schmidt (Ed.) (1989): The individual psychology of Alfred Adlers - a textbook . Frankfurt: Fischer paperback.
  5. ↑ Franzjosef Mohr (1982): Adler and his time - data on life and work . In: D. Eicke (Ed.): Kindler's Psychology of the 20th Century, Depth Psychology , Vol. 4, pp. 3–5.
  6. ^ Almuth Bruder-Bezzel (1999): History of Individual Psychology . 2. edit again Edition Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
  7. ↑ Chronicle of the DGIP on the DGIP website , accessed on July 1, 2017.
  8. ↑ Horst Gröner (1987): 25 Years of the German Society for Individual Psychology (1962–1987) . Zf Individual Psychol. 12, pp. 55-69.
  9. ^ Statutes of the DGIP from November 15, 2014
  10. ↑ Chronicle of the DGIP on the DGIP website , accessed on July 1, 2017.
  11. ^ Statutes of the DGIP from November 15, 2014
  12. ^ DGIP institutes on the DGIP website
  13. ^ Statutes of the DGIP from November 15, 2014
  14. ^ Almuth Bruder-Bezzel (1999): History of Individual Psychology. 2. edit again Edition Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.