Dietmar Friedmann

Dietmar Friedmann (born July 19, 1937 in Pforzheim ) is a German author , lecturer and coaching developer.

Life

After completing secondary school in Heilbronn and training as a technical draftsman for structural steelwork and bridge construction, Friedmann first graduated from the Technical High School in Stuttgart in 1959 before studying philosophy, psychology and literature at the Technical University of Stuttgart . At times a Buddhist monk student, he passed his second service examination in 1969 and continued his academic career with a degree in pedagogy from 1972–73 and education from 1973–76 at the University of Heidelberg . In 1976 he obtained a doctorate in philosophy. This was followed by training in client-centered conversation management and transaction analysis . After various lectureships, Friedmann now works almost exclusively as a trainer in " Integrated Solution-Oriented Psychology (ILP) " - a therapeutic approach he developed. He has two children and lives in Obersulm near Heilbronn.

Therapeutic approach

Dietmar Friedmann has been developing his own personality typology since 1976, which he called "Friedmann's Psychography". Friedmann's main concern is the redesign of psychotherapy according to "type-appropriate" approaches. To this end, he integrates various methods ( neuro-linguistic programming , Milton Erickson's clinical hypnotherapy, solution-oriented short therapy according to Steve de Shazer ) into a given (critics say: rigid) therapy scheme. He also developed “autonomy training” on the same basis.

The basis of his work is psychography and the type theory developed in it (type of matter, type of action, type of relationship), which he taught in several variants ( see here ). In 1998, when a former student, Werner Winkler , introduced an extension to the psychographic model with the “I-We-You concept”, a second main line of psychography (“Psychography according to Winkler”) was formed. A non-profit association, the Psychographie-Initiative eV, has been promoting both psychographies since 1999, and the ILP Association, an association of therapists who work according to Friedmann's models, has existed since 2006.

Development phases of psychography according to Friedmann

Depending on the development phase of the model, up to four model variants (1990, 1996, 2000) can be distinguished in "Psychography according to Friedmann":

Friedmann A.

(1990, “The Other”): Differentiation of four types

• Type of matter
• Action type
• Relationship type 1 (I-related)
• Relationship type 2 (forgetting me)

Friedmann B.

(1996, "Who am I? Who are you?"): Differentiation of six types

• Type 1 (I-related)
• Type 2 (forgetting me)
• Action type 1 (I-related)
• Action type 2 (forgetting myself)
• Relationship type 1 (I-related)
• Relationship type 2 (forgetting me)

Friedmann C

(2000, "The three personality types and their life strategies"): Differentiation of nine types in a mixture of Enneagrams , psychography and the Winkler model

• Type 5 (feel + present-day + you-related)
• Type 6 (thinking + past-oriented + me-related)
• Type 7 (want + future-oriented + we-related)
• Action type 8 (thinking + past-oriented + self-related)
• Action type 9 (want + future-oriented + we-related)
• Action type 1 (feel + oriented towards the present + related to you)
• Relationship type 2 (want + future-oriented + we-related)
• Relationship type 3 (feel + present-day + you-related)
• Relationship type 4 (thinking + past-oriented + self-centered)

Friedmann D.

(partly communicated in this way) Differentiation of three basic types without sub-types

• Type of thing (who is then also seen as a "thinker")
• Action type (which is then also seen as "doer" or specialized in "wanting")
• Relationship type (which is then also seen as a "feeler")

Publications

• The other . Ehrenwirth, 1990.
• The discovery of your own personality . Ehrenwirth, 1991.
• Don't be fooled! Ehrenwirth, 1993.
• with Klaus Fritz: Who am I, who are you? dtv, 1996.
• with Klaus Fritz: How do I change my husband? dtv, 1997.
• Integrated short therapy . Primus , 1997.
• The three personality types and their life strategies . Primus, 2000.
• ILP - Integrated Solution-Oriented Psychology . Scientific Book Society , 2004.

Web links

• Literature by and about Dietmar Friedmann in the catalog of the German National Library