Günter Rexilius

Günter Rexilius, 2020, at a private lecture

Günter Rexilius (born January 17, 1943 in Berlin ) is a German psychologist and psychotherapist, university professor, family therapist and couples therapist , expert and litigation expert, especially in family law and guardianship law .

Career

Günter Rexilius studied psychology at the Universities of Bochum and Gießen and received his diploma in 1971. He received a graduate scholarship and did his doctorate in 1973 at the University of Bremen (Logical Constitution of Subjectivity - Attempt to mediate between the individual and society). In 1975 he completed his habilitation in social psychology and taught at the University of Wuppertal , at the University of Vienna and at the Ev. University of Applied Sciences for Social Sciences Dresden on personality psychology, social psychology, social psychiatry , critical psychology , political psychology , science and epistemology and the history of science . After the fall of the Wall in 1989/90 he worked as a department head for psychiatry in the State Office for Social Affairs and Supply Brandenburg , Cottbus. As a practicing psychotherapist, he works with a focus on: psychoanalytically based methods, systemic family therapy and behavioral therapy . In 1993 he married. From this marriage a daughter was born.

Scientific and practical focus

His scientific and work focus lies in the areas of social and personality psychology , social psychiatry, socialization research, epistemological foundations and the history of psychology. Rexilius is a co-founder of critical psychology - with a lowercase "k" - at the end of the 1960s. In 1970 he founded the journal Psychologie und Gesellschaftskritik together with Siegfried Grubitzsch, the first psychology-critical periodical in which students, practical and academic people developed and reflected on ideas, concepts and models of a new, socially critical oriented psychology. He participated in the implementation of the concept of project studies (connection of teaching, practice and research), which changed studies and teaching at many universities. At the beginning of the 1970s he was a member of the board of the Bremen regional association of the German Society for Social Psychiatry (DGSP) for several years and was thus involved in spreading the social psychiatric movement and anchoring its image of man; on important impulses for legislation ( Psychiatrie-Enquête 1975) and social-therapeutic treatment concepts for mentally ill, hospitalized people and on the nationwide unique, most consistent model project of de-hospitalization (deinstitutionalization), the dissolution of the long-term psychiatric clinic at Kloster Blankenburg / Bremen. He initiated and led men's groups to change the male self-image in partnership and society. He participated in the development and organization of the interdisciplinary project Holocaust and Fascism Research at the Bergische Universität, Wuppertal. From 1990 he became involved in the further development of a conflict-reducing, solution-oriented model for the interdisciplinary handling of separation, divorce and guardianship, in order to promote the joint care of parents for their separated / divorced children and the negative psychological consequences for them by reducing the couple conflicts reduce (e.g. parent-child alienation ). As part of his socio-political commitment, he is co-founder of the IPPNW regional group Mönchengladbach (International Doctors for the Prevention of Nuclear War - Doctors in Social Responsibility) and the "Network Welcome for Refugees in Mönchengladbach", and works with the "Alliance for human dignity and work "in Mönchengladbach. In 2018 he founded the Psychosocial Center for Refugees in Mönchengladbach. Rexilius is involved through publications, teaching assignments at various universities in Germany and Austria as well as conferences, training courses and other events in the above-mentioned. Main topics and ensures their dissemination.

Publications (selection)

Critical psychology

• On the problem of intelligence and its measurement . In: Ed. Together with brother, KJ et al., Critique of Pedagogical Psychology . Wrong theories of wrong practice. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1976, ISBN 3-499-16948-7 , pp. 181-215.
• Much Ado About Nothing - On the Logical and Historical in Psychology. In: Psychologie und Gesellschaftskritik , 1977, 1 (1), ISSN  0342-0981 , pp. 26-44.
• Fundamentals of a critical psychology. Focus, Giessen 1977, ISBN 978-3-920352-27-5 .
• Marxism and Theory of Personality? A criticism of Lucien Sève In: Psychologie und Gesellschaftskritik, 1977, 1 (2), pp. 76–122.
• Test theory - test practice . Ed. Together with S. Grubitzsch. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1978, ISBN 3-499-17157-0 .
• Subjective factor, personality and reflection In: Psychologie und Gesellschaftskritik, 1978, 2 (5), pp. 99–130.
• Political Learning - Subject of Learning Psychology? In: Psychologie und Gesellschaftskritik, 1979, 3 (11), pp. 33–41.
• Basic psychological terms. Man and Society in Psychology. A manual. Ed. Together with S. Grubitzsch. rowohlts enzyklopädie, Reinbek 1981, ISBN 978-3-499-16273-2 .
• Peter Brückner's heirs. In: Psychologie und Gesellschaftskritik , 1982, 6 (4), ISSN  0170-0537 , pp. 119–123.
• Family therapy In: Zygowski, Hans (ed.), Educational advice in the crisis. dgvt-Verlag, Tübingen 1984, pp. 118-136.
• Psychology. Theories and methods fields of work. A basic course. Ed. Together with S. Grubitzsch. Rowohlt's Encyclopedia, Reinbek 1986, ISBN 3-499-55419-4 .
• About the science of psychology and those who practice it together with Peter Mattes. In: Psychology - A basic course, so
• Subject Science and the Russian Revolution or: The Secret Conservatism of Critical Psychology. In: Maiers, W. & M. Markard, Critical Psychology as Subject Science. Klaus Holzkamp on his 60th birthday. Frankfurt / M .: Campus 1988, ISBN 3-593-33853-X , pp. 163-172.
• Psychology as a social science. History, theory and practice of critical psychology. Editor. Westdeutscher Verlag, Wiesbaden 1988, ISBN 3-531-12017-4 .
• A determination of the position of critical psychology In: Psychology as social science, s. above, pp. 12-27.
• Critical Psychology - The Development of a Social Science Paradigm. Add. m. Peter Mattes, in: Stör Faktor , 1989, 2 (3/4), pp. 6–23.
• Critical psychology - The development of a paradigm in the social sciences. Add. m. P. Mattes. In: Storia della psicologia e delle scienze del comparto¬mento , 1990, 1 July 1991.
• Theoretical foundations and perspectives of a critical psychology. Psychology & Social Criticism , 1991, 15/57, ISBN 978-3-925007-57-6 , pp. 73-100.
• What can new psychology be? In: Benetka, Gerhard, et al. (Ed.): Opposites. Similarities and Differences in Critical Psychology. Profile Vlg. Munich / Vienna. 1992, ISBN 3-89019-313-7 , pp. 83-98.

Political-psychological texts

• Brelohstrasse children's shop project. In the collective of authors. Bochum 1971
• The 'New Anthropology' - the theoretical organ of right-wing radicals in the Federal Republic. In: Psychologie und Gesellschaftskritik , 1980, 4 (13/14), ISSN  0170-0537 , pp. 104-143.
• Compassion cannot replace reflection . In: BarOn, Beiner & Brusten (Ed.): The Holocaust. Wuppertal: Universität, FB 1/3, 1988, pp. 222-229.
• Political-psychological comments on the so-called historians' dispute. In: Psychologie & Gesellschaftskritik , 1988, 12 (3), ISBN 3-925007-47-4 , ISSN  0170-0537 , pp. 77-88.
• Political-psychological remarks on the situation of the Greens In: Psychologie & Gesellschaftskritik, 1989, 13 (3), pp. 39–60.
• Three generations in the shadow of the Nazi past: Contributions to the international research colloquium on learning and pseudo-learning in coming to terms with the Holocaust. Edited together with Konrad Brendler, Wuppertaler Sozialwissenschaftliche Studien, Vol. 4/1991. ISBN 3-923499-53-1 , ISSN  0934-1145 .
• The social in the individual. Plea against giving up careful consideration and reflection. Lecture at the 2nd Holocaust Congress in Wuppertal. In: Brendler, K. & G. Rexilius, Congress Report, Wuppertaler Sozialwissenschaftliche Studien, 1991, Volume 4.
• Plea for a political psychology Forum Kritische Psychologie, 1991, 27, pp. 23–42.
• The Biologism of Systemic Epistemology - A Critique of Maturana & Varela. Lecture at the congress "Critique of Systemic Theory " in Bamberg in October 1992. In: Hörmann, G. (Ed.): Caught in the system. On the critique of systemic concepts in the social sciences. Vlg. Dietmar Klotz, 1994, ISBN 978-3-9803615-1-4 .
• Violence against children. Lecture at the congress "Violence and Children" of the Landesjungendring Thüringen and the Paritätisches Bildungswerk Thüringen, November 1992. In: Landesjugendring Thüringen eV (Ed.): Violence and Peace Education . 1993.
• The personal is political is personal. In: Psychologie & Gesellschaftskritik , Heft 100, 2002, ISBN 3-89806-125-6 , ISSN  0170-0537 , pp. 35-66.
• Against the terror of profit power. Perspectives of the Peace Movement. In: Bauer, Rudoph (Ed.), Wars in the 21st Century: New Challenges for the Peace Movement, Sonnenberg Peace Political Series, anthology with contributions from the 2014 Anti-War Conference in Berlin. ISBN 978-3-933264-77-0 , pp. 317-340.
• The populism trap . In Neue Rheinische Zeitung , September 27, 2017.
• Fascism is spoken of by those who do not remain silent about capitalism (Déjà-vu, 2017) (under the pseudonym author collective K). In: Neue Rheinische Zeitung , January 17, 2018.
• The (r) evolutionary subject - a meta-psychological study of enlightenment, agitation, departure. Nora-Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-86557-476-3 .

Family law

• New perspectives on psychological work in separation and divorce In: How to put it out? Professional quality prospects. 46th workshop of Austrian youth welfare office psychologists. City of Vienna City Administration, 1999.
• Psychology in family law - considerations from a psychological point of view. In: Kind-Prax , 2000, Issue 1, ISSN  1434-8330 , pp. 3–8.
• Everything ok with the child? A plea for a reform of the reform of the child law. In: Kind-Prax , 2001, Issue 4, ISSN  1434-8330 , pp. 112-117.
• The difficult conditions in the relationships between "primary" and "secondary" parents - an attempt to relax them. In: Evangelische Akademie Bad Boll, The careful handling of children in social issues. Protocol service 1/2001.
• Solution-oriented work in family law . Intervention in Separation and Divorce (The Systemic Approach in Family Law) . Ed. Together with Elmar Bergmann and Uwe Jopt. Bundesanzeiger-Verlag 2002, Cologne, ISBN 3-89817-133-7 .
• The professional handling of foster children - viewed systemically, Zus. with Elmar Bergmann. In: Bergmann, E., U. Jopt & G. Rexilius, solution-oriented work in family law.
• In the case of family law or How Parents are Made Crazy In: KindPrax, Heft 4, 2002.
• Some basics of intervention-oriented expert work. In: Association of German Psychologists, 2nd Day of Legal Psychology Leipzig. Conference proceedings. Leipzig 2002.
• Psychological assessment seen from a critical-psychological point of view - using the example of family law. In: Psychologie und Gesellschaftskritik , 2014/2015, Issue 152/153, ISBN 978-3-95853-047-8 , e-book ISBN 978-3-95853-048-5 , pp. 149-173.

Web links

• Homepage
• Literature by and about Günter Rexilius in the catalog of the German National Library