Franz Ruppert

Franz Ruppert (2015)

Franz Ruppert (born May 28, 1957 in Langensallach ) is a German psychotraumatologist . He is professor of psychology at the Catholic Foundation University in Munich and works as a psychological psychotherapist in his own practice in Munich. For many years he has been developing various theories of trauma and therapy methods based on them, and identity- oriented psychotrauma therapy (IoPT) since 2015 .

Live and act

Munich has been Ruppert's center of life since 1976. As a psychotherapist and supervisor , he works all over Europe, Asia and the USA, where he offers lectures, further training and seminars on the identity-oriented psychotrauma therapy he founded. This form of therapy, which he has been continuously developing since 2000, which is used in both group and individual settings, makes trauma-related divisions visible and promotes psychological reintegration. In this way, it helps to dissolve identifications , to free oneself from ascriptions by others and to promote a healthy identity development, which is often interrupted at an early stage.

Ruppert has been married to Juliane von Krause since 1998, who was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon in 2016 for her commitment against trafficking in women and for preventing violence .

Since 2012, Ruppert, together with the Association for the Promotion of a Healthy Development of People's Autonomy , has organized an international congress every two years to further develop the identity-oriented psychotrauma theory and its application in practice. In 2020 this will take place as an online congress with his colleague Joachim Bauer , the neurobiologist Gerald Hüther , the founder of pre-, peri- and postnatal psychology in Germany, Ludwig Janus , and the psychoanalyst Hans-Joachim Maaz . Since 2016, Ruppert has been relating his findings about the human psyche to social issues.

Professional career and academic activity

After graduating from the Gabrieli Gymnasium in Eichstätt in 1976, Ruppert studied psychology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich until 1982 . The doctorate to Dr. phil. took place in 1985 at the Technical University of Munich with Carl Graf Hoyos at the chair for psychology. In 1992 Ruppert was appointed professor of psychology at the Catholic Foundation University in Munich , where he still holds psychological lectures and offers seminars for social and childhood educators. In 1999 Ruppert received his state license to practice as a psychological psychotherapist . He gained his first practical experience in group settings at the employers' liability insurance association for the chemical industry as head of system and organizational constellations . From 1999 he distanced himself significantly from the family constellation approach. Since then, his constellation practice is no longer based on the family or the system , but on a bond and trauma-centered theoretical approach that focuses on the client's psyche. Further research focuses are early childhood and prenatal forms of psychotraumas and their consequences on personality development and psychosomatics .

In his books, which have been translated into more than ten languages, Ruppert outlines universally applicable characteristics of traumatic processes and their consequences for the human psyche. In this way he comes to a general trauma theory, which forms the basis of his practical work. According to his definition, trauma always arises when the human psyche cannot integrate traumatic life experiences, but has to split them off in order to keep them out of consciousness.

Finally, Ruppert coined the term trauma biography , with which he expresses that many people not only suffer from the consequences of a one-off traumatisation, but that their entire lives are determined by the effects of their early psychotraumas, usually without them even being aware of it . Where the majority of society lives with the consequences of its individual psychotraumas, entire traumatized and, in turn, traumatizing societies have formed over generations (Ruppert 2018). His therapy method is therefore aimed at the broad mass of people affected by perpetrator-victim dynamics . According to Ruppert, the way out of these dynamics leads through contact with our early trauma experiences and suppressed feelings, in order to finally be able to stop the doomed attempt of our subconscious to use yesterday's survival patterns to solve today's problems (Ruppert 2019).

Publications

Books

• Confused souls. The truth cures the madness . Kösel Verlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 978-3-466-30600-8 .
• Trauma, attachment, and family constellations. Understand and heal psychological injuries . Klett-Cotta Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 978-3-608-89045-7 .
• Spiritual division and inner healing. Integrate traumatic experiences . Klett-Cotta Verlag, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-608-89206-2 .
• Symbiosis and autonomy . 5th edition. Klett-Cotta Verlag, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-608-89215-4 .
• Trauma, fear and love. On the way to healthy independence. How constellations help . Kösel Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-466-30966-5 .
• Who am I in a traumatized society? How perpetrator-victim dynamics determine our life and how we free ourselves from it . Klett-Cotta Verlag, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-608-96270-3 .
• Love, Lust and Trauma: On the Way to a Healthy Sexual Identity . Kösel Verlag, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-466-34743-8 .

As editor

• Early trauma. Pregnancy, birth and first years of life . Klett-Cotta Verlag, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-608-89150-8 .
• With Harald Banzhaf (ed.): My body, my trauma, my self . Kösel Verlag, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-466-34644-8 .

Selected contributions and articles

• Trauma and symbiotic entanglement - from family to trauma constellations In: Journal for Psychotraumatology, Psychotherapy Science , Psychological Medicine. Issue 4/2009.
• Establishing the set of concerns. Development steps and methodological considerations . In: Kirsten Nazarkiewicz, Kerstin Kuschik (ed.): Handbook Quality in the Constellation Management . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-525-40467-6 , pp. 327-355 .
• The Effects of Maternal Trauma on Children's Psychological Health . In: John Wilks (Ed.): An Integrative Approach to Treating Babies and Children . Singing Dragon, London 2017, ISBN 978-1-84819-219-5 , pp. 45-57 .
• Identity, division and loss of wholeness . In: Peter Bourguin, Kirsten Nazarkiewicz (eds.): Trauma and encounter. Yearbook of the German Society for System Constellations . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-525-40512-3 , p. 39-50 .
• Healing and Prevention of Early Trauma . In: Inés Brock (Ed.): How the birth experience shapes our lives . Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2018, ISBN 978-3-8379-2718-4 , pp. 127-139 .
• My job as a trauma survival strategy and way to myself . In: Stephanie Hartung (Ed.): Trauma in the world of work . Springer Gabler, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-662-58621-1 , pp. 197-214 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-662-58622-8_9 .

Web links

• Website by Franz Ruppert
• Literature by and about Franz Ruppert in the catalog of the German National Library

Lectures (Videos)

• Trauma, fear and love at the Chamber for Workers and Employees Vorarlberg 2013
• The Trauma of War Contribution by the SWR -Teleakademie, recorded in Hospitalhof Stuttgart 2016
• Early trauma at the Chamber for Workers and Employees Vorarlberg 2017
• The trauma of identity at the Chamber for Workers and Employees Vorarlberg 2018
• Love, lust and trauma at the Chamber for Workers and Employees Vorarlberg 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. Michael Paul Gollmer: The Influence of Trauma Consequences and Early Childhood Attachment on Identity-Finding Processes . Campus Naturalis, Berlin 2016, p. 32 f., 37
2. ↑ cf. Commitment to women's rights: Gauck honors Juliane von Krause Welt article from March 6, 2016
3. ↑ See Healthy Autonomy: 5th International Congress "Live or Survive?"
4. ↑ Especially with the publication of his book Who am I in a traumatized society? (2018)
5. ↑ Theoretically, he dealt with it in: Professional relationship worlds. Establishing working relationships in theory and practice. Carl-Auer-Systeme Verlag, Heidelberg 2001, ISBN 3-89670-428-1 .
6. ↑ In 2007, the then senior physician at the Clinic for Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics at the Nuremberg Clinic , Jochen Peichl, emphasized in a review of Psychic Split and Inner Healing that Ruppert, in particular, clearly distanced himself from Hellinger's guru-like demeanor, which eluded public and scientific discourse and moved into the position of an enlightened healer .
7. ↑ cf. Birgit Assel: From the family constellation to the trauma constellation . (Available online at http://www.igtv.de/artikel-birgit-assel-29 ).
8. ↑ cf. Michael Paul Gollmer: From trauma theory to trauma therapy , in: The influence of trauma consequences and early childhood attachment on identity-finding processes . Campus Naturalis, Berlin 2016, p. 27 ff.