Elisabeth Smurf

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Elisabeth Schlumpf (* 1932 ) is a Swiss psychotherapist and author .

Life

She studied pedagogy until 1953 and initially worked as a primary school teacher from 1954. She later trained as an adult educator and studied speech therapy until 1966. From 1965 to 1978 she was involved in setting up and running the language clinic in the municipality of Meilen, which offered information events about language-impaired children and where she gave language therapy lessons. She then studied at the Institute for Applied Psychology in Zurich and graduated in 1973 with a thesis on interdentality and maternal relationships . At Arnold Mindell she completed a long-term training in process-oriented psychology. She then worked for four years at the Uster child psychiatric service and completed further training in integrative family therapy, bioenergetic bodywork and supervision. After being recognized as a psychotherapist by the Federation of Swiss Psychologists , she set up a group practice in 1978. At the same time, she taught communication and process-oriented body therapy at the School for Polarity Therapy in Zurich for many years from 1980 and completed further training in integrative body psychotherapy , in cranio-sacral therapy with Franklin Sills, London, and in family-centered baby therapy with R. Castillo and W. Emerson. Together with Irene Kummer, she headed the Center for Form and Change in Zurich for over 20 years .

She was with the psychologist and graphologist Dr. A. Schlumpf is married and has a daughter with him.

Publications

  • Everyday haiku. Littera-Authors-Verlag, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-906731-22-3 .
  • Birgit Dechmann, Elisabeth Schlumpf: Lifelong love: How relationships get better and better . Beltz, Weinheim / Basel 2008, ISBN 978-3-407-85864-1 .
  • When I'm old I'll wear poppy red . Kösel, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-466-30636-1 .
  • Elisabeth Schlumpf, Heidi Werder: Always there for others? Ways out of over-responsibility . Kösel, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-466-30513-6 . Paperback edition under the title Always there for others? This is how they learn to say no gently . Goldmann, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-442-17093-7 .

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personal data
SURNAME Schlumpf, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss psychotherapist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1932