Hans Müller-Braunschweig

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Hans Müller-Braunschweig (born July 6, 1926 in Berlin ; † November 5, 2014 in Gießen ) was a German psychoanalyst . For many years he was the head of the Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy founded by Horst-Eberhard Richter in Gießen and published numerous articles and books on the subject of "Psychopathology and Creativity" and on body-oriented psychotherapy.

Life

The parents of Müller-Braunschweig were the psychoanalyst Carl Müller-Braunschweig (1881-1958) and the child analyst Ada Schott (1897-1959). At the age of seventeen, Hans Müller-Braunschweig was deployed as an Air Force helper and in labor service in World War II from 1943. When many friends were dead after the end of the war and Müller-Braunschweig was suffering from depression, he decided to seek psychoanalytic treatment. He then studied philosophy, art history and psychology at the Humboldt University and the Free University in Berlin. In 1953 he made his diploma in psychology. During his studies he considered further professional approaches, took acting lessons, had a musical role in a Berlin drama group and wrote short stories for the press and radio. After graduating, he enrolled in the graphics class at the Hochschule der Künste . He earned his living as an accordion and guitar player. From 1954 he worked as a freelance parenting consultant and worked with young people at risk. He received a lectureship at a technical school for youth care workers. In 1957 he married Heide Wilhelm, a dance teacher who had studied at the Mary Wigman School in Berlin-Dahlem . The marriage resulted in two daughters. From 1958 he completed his psychoanalytic training in Berlin with Horst-Eberhard Richter . When he was appointed to a chair for psychosomatics in Gießen in 1962, he succeeded Richter and became his assistant at the newly founded Psychosomatic Clinic at the University of Gießen . From 1970 Müller-Braunschweig was a training analyst for the German Psychoanalytical Association . From 1970 to 1972 he took part in a church-organized training course in psychotherapeutic counseling for GDR citizens in East Berlin and did his dissertation on an art psychological topic with Alexander Mitscherlich . From 1970 to 1984 he was head of the Giessen Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He completed his habilitation in 1975 in the field of human medicine with a film examination of an infant and from 1976 to 1988 he held a professorship for clinical psychosomatics. From 1982 he devoted himself to self-awareness and training in body psychotherapy with George Downing, Marianne Fuchs and Gisela Worm. From 1985 he ran a private practice. In the last few years he has also participated as a photographer in art exhibitions of the Art and Culture Association Wißmar . Hans Müller-Braunschweig died in November 2014 at the age of 88.

Fonts (selection)

  • Hans Müller-Braunschweig, Early Object Relationship and Artistic Production . In: Yearbook of Psychoanalysis, Volume III, 1964.
  • Educational film about dissociative seizures, Berlin 1967.
  • Hans Müller-Braunschweig, On the genesis of ego disorders . In: Psyche. Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse 9/1970, pp. 657-677.
  • Hans Müller-Braunschweig, Psychopathology and Creativity . In: Psyche. Journal for Psychoanalysis, 7/1974, Ernst Klett Verlag , Stuttgart 1974.
  • Hans Müller-Braunschweig (Ed.), The effect of early experience. The first year of life and its significance for psychological development. Results and problems. Human science concepts . Ernst Klett Verlag , Stuttgart 1975, ISBN 3-12-905970-9 .
  • Hans Müller-Braunschweig, thoughts on the influence of the early mother-child relationship on the disposition to psychosomatic illness . In: Psychother med Psychol 30, 1980, pp. 48-59.
  • Hans Müller-Braunschweig, Fifty Years Later Statement on the statements by Carl Müller-Braunschweig cited in Psyche 11/1982 . In: Psyche. Journal for Psychoanalysis 12/1983. Klett-Cotta Verlag , Stuttgart 1983.
  • Hans-Martin Lohmann (Ed.), Psychoanalysis and National Socialism. Contributions to processing an unresolved trauma . With contributions by Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen , Helmut Dahmer , Käthe Dräger, Lutz Rosenkötter, Carl Müller-Braunschweig , Hans Müller-Braunschweig, Kurt Eissler , Ilse Grubrich-Simitis . S. Fischer Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 978-3-59612-231-8 .
  • Marianne Fuchs (Ed.), Functional Relaxation. Theory and practice of organismic relaxation through rhythmic breath . With an introduction by Eckardt Wiesenhütter and an appendix on "Psychoanalytic Aspects of Functional Relaxation" by Rolf Johnen and Hans Müller-Braunschweig. Hippokrates-Verlag , Stuttgart, 1989, ISBN 3-7773-0951-6 .
  • Hans Müller-Braunschweig, On the effect of analytically oriented body work in early disorders. Comments on the discussion between J. Scharff and T. Ettl about scenic and body-related intervention in the analytical process . In: Journal for psychoanalytical theory and practice XI, 2–1996.
  • Hans Müller-Braunschweig, On the current situation of body-related psychotherapy . In: Psychotherapeut 42, 1997, pp. 132-144.
  • Thure von Uexküll , Marianne Fuchs, Hans Müller-Braunschweig, Rolf Johnen (eds.): Subjective anatomy. Theory and practice of body-related psychotherapy . Schattauer Verlag , Stuttgart 1994, 2nd edition. 1997, ISBN 3-7945-1799-7 .
  • Hans Müller-Braunschweig, Nonverbal Communication, Scene and Empathy . In: Selbstpsychologie, Heft 3/1, 2001, pp. 75–83.
  • Hans Müller-Braunschweig, Psychoanalysis and Body Psychotherapy . In: About the Body to Find Sexuality, ed. by Peter Geißler . Psychosozial-Verlag , Giessen 2001, ISBN 3-8980-6064-0 .
  • Self and Body Self Psychology, European Journal of Psychoanalytic Therapy and Research. Issue 10, 3rd year, 4/2002. With contributions by Günter Heisterkamp, ​​Franz Herbert, Joseph D. Lichtenberg , Wolfgang Milch, Hans Müller-Braunschweig, Carol M. Press, Jörg M. Scharff, Sabine Trautmann-Voigt and Bernd Voigt. Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-8609-9910-9 .
  • Hans Müller-Braunschweig, Niklas Stiller (Ed.), Body-Oriented Psychotherapy. Methods, applications, fundamentals . Springer, Heidelberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-540-88803-1 .
  • Peter Dettmering, Tilo Held, Hans Müller-Braunschweig (eds.), Psychoanalysis in Self-Representations 9 , Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-86099-900-4 .

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  1. ↑ See: http://www.psychosozial-verlag.de/cms/nachrichtenleser/items/hans-mueller-braunschweig-ist-verstorben.html
  2. ↑ See: olz, grief. Prof. Hans-Müller-Braunschweig has died. In: Gießener Anzeiger , November 27, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Müller-Braunschweig, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychoanalyst
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 5th November 2014
Place of death to water