Hans Trüb

Hans Trüb (born August 26, 1889 in Aarau ; † October 8, 1949 in Zurich ) was a Swiss doctor and psychotherapist .

life and work

Hans Trüb in 1949

Hans Trüb was born in 1889 as the fourth of five children to August Trüb, a printing company from Aarau. As a student at the canton school, he was involved in the youth movement of the Swiss Wandering Bird , for which he put together a well-known collection of songs in 1912. The journeys songs of the Swiss Wandering Birds were reprinted in numerous editions until the 1970s.

From 1909 to 1914 Trüb studied medicine in Geneva, Zurich, Kiel and Munich . In 1913 he made the acquaintance of CG Jung in Zurich , to whose intellectual circle he belonged from then on. In 1915 Trüb married Susanna (called Susi) Wolff, the sister of Jung's colleague Antonia (called Toni) Wolff . The marriage had five children. During the First World War he did his military service as a medical officer a. a. in Ticino , where the family later bought a house. At the same time Trüb worked as an assistant doctor at the Psychiatric University Clinic in Zurich , which was headed by Eugen Bleuler , where he received his doctorate in 1917 under Hans W. Maier .

After a training analysis with Maria Moltzer and CG Jung, Hans Trüb opened a psychotherapeutic practice in Zurich in 1918 . From 1916 he was also a member of the Zurich Psychological Club founded by Jung, of which he became president in 1920. In the fall of 1922, however, he fell out with Jung, who stayed away from the club's meetings until Trüb resigned as president in the spring of 1924. From then on, Trüb concentrated primarily on his practical work as a psychotherapist. In the complex relationship with Jung, phases of rapprochement alternated with phases of distancing.

Trüb had been close friends with Martin Buber since 1923 , through whom he met other German scholars such as Franz Rosenzweig , Ernst Michel and Viktor von Weizsäcker . Influenced by Buber's philosophy of dialogue , Trüb developed a psychotherapeutic method that focused on the interpersonal relationship between therapist and client. In 1929/30 he published two articles in the magazine Die Kreatur , with which he introduced the new method. In other writings such as Psychosynthesis as a mental and spiritual healing process (1936) and From Self to the World (1947) Trüb laid out his foundations for dialogic psychotherapy.

On October 8, 1949, Hans Trüb died unexpectedly of a heart attack. His main work healing from the encounter was published in 1951 by Klett-Verlag, completed by Ernst Michel and Arië Sborowitz and with a preface by Martin Buber. While the reception of Trüb's work was initially largely determined by his critical examination of CG Jung's psychology, his early contribution to dialogic psychotherapy has been honored since the 1980s .

Trüb's dialogical psychotherapy

Inspired by reading Buber's Ich und Du (1923), Hans Trüb tried out a psychotherapeutic method with his clients from the 1920s onwards, which he initially called "relationship analysis", then as "psychosynthesis" and finally as a "dialogical-anthropological approach" described. The main idea remained that the therapist and the client face each other as "partners". In the protected area of ​​the consulting room, a dialogue should relax, which enables the neurotic client to confront the repressed self-parts and at the same time shows perspectives for a return to the social "world". Trüb thus continued to recognize Jung's depth psychological method as a means of self-awareness, but warned against understanding " individuation " as an end in itself. He saw patients as "cured" who can face their responsibility as interacting members of society - and no longer need the guidance of the therapist.

Scheme from Trüb's work Healing from Encounter (1951, p. 44).

In his main work, published posthumously, Trüb describes his "dialogical-anthropological approach", which in practice can also be combined with the "dialectical-psychological approach" of Freud and Jung, as follows:

"In the basic anthropological attitude , the doctor addresses the patient in himself as a named you and thus places him in a holistic dialogue. This dialogical encounter is both the starting point and the goal of our therapeutic endeavors. It is in it that true healing arises and takes place That means: in the risk of this encounter, in its success or failure, the process of healing is unmistakably characterized in the positive or negative aspect [...] by awakening the patient's personal self in the immediate appeal and thus in his Trying to keep the ability to speak constant awake at the same time the latent powers and abilities of the soul are used and more and more included in the healing process. As the dialogical relationship with the doctor deepens and develops, the self gains new courage and the self Strength to use one's emotional organs of expression and to use them in life with d he world. " ( Healing from the encounter , 1951, p. 45)

Fonts

• Journey songs by the Swiss migrating birds. Aarau 1912, numerous new editions until 1974.
• About attention and adaptability in the healthy and the sick (with special consideration of the stupor). Experimental investigations with the Rauschburg mnemometer (diss.). Berlin 1917.
• A scene in the doctor's office. In: Die Kreatur III (1929), Heft 1, 53-60.
• From a corner of my office. In: Die Kreatur III (1929/30), Heft 4, 403-420.
• Individuation, guilt and decision. Beyond the limits of psychology. In: The cultural meaning of complex psychology , ed. v. Psychological Club Zurich. Berlin 1935, 529-555.
• Psychosynthesis as a mental and spiritual healing process. Zurich / Leipzig 1936.
• Rudolf Pannwitz. Life support. Edited by Hans Trüb and Erwin Jaeckle. Zurich 1938.
• From the self to the world. The double mission of the psychotherapist. Zurich 1947.
• Healing from the encounter. An examination of the psychology of CG Jung. Stuttgart 1951, 1962, 1971.

New edition of the complete works:

• Healing from the encounter. Consideration of dialogic psychotherapy. Extended new edition, edited and provided with an introduction by Milan Sreckovic (Edition Humanistische Psychologie). Bergisch Gladbach 2015, ISBN 978-3-89797-091-5 .
• World and self. Building blocks of modern psychotherapy . Collected writings, edited by Nadir Weber, with an afterword by Frank-M. Staemmler (Edition Humanistic Psychology). Bergisch Gladbach 2020, ISBN 978-3-89797-117-2 .

swell

• Michael Habersack, Pia Weigel: Finding aid for the estate of Hans Trüb and Susi Trüb-Wolff . Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt / M., Department of Catholic Theology, Repertories No. 3, 2007. (The estate has since been transferred to the university archive).
• Martin Buber: Writings on psychology and psychotherapy , ed., Introduced and commented on by Judith Buber Agassi (Martin Buber edition, vol. 10). Gütersloh 2008. (Contains a selection of the correspondence between Hans Trüb and Martin Buber.)

literature

• Deirdre Bair: CG Jung. A biography . Munich 2005.
• Paul Bishop: CG Jung, Hans Trüb and the "Psychosynthesis". In: Analytische Psychologie 27 (1996), 119-137, 159-192.
• Maurice Friedman: The healing dialogue in psychotherapy . Cologne 1987.
• Joseph Hainz (ed.): Healing from the encounter. Hans Trüb and psychotherapy. Documentation of a symposium. Eppenheim 2003.
• Milan Sreckovic: Self and World - Comments on the new edition. In: Hans Trüb, healing from the encounter. Reflections on dialogic psychotherapy , ed. v. Milan Sreckovic. Bergisch Gladbach 2015, 109–251.
• Frank-M. Staemmler: The dialogical self - postmodern image of man and psychotherapeutic practice. Stuttgart 2015.
• Knut Martin Stünkel: Calling the patient by his name - healing from the encounter with Hans Trüb. In: Scenes of the first contact between doctor and patient , ed. v. Walter Bruchhausen / Celine Kaiser. Göttingen, 119-136
• Rudy Vandercruysse: "In the orientation towards the other". Hans Trüb's struggle for dialogic psychotherapy . Heidelberg 2018.
• Nadir Weber: Talk to each other at eye level. Seventy years ago, Hans Trüb called for a turnaround in psychotherapy, in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , October 17, 2019, 39. ( online version )

Individual evidence

1. ^ History of the club . psychologischerclub.ch. Retrieved May 9, 2020.