Harry Merl

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Harry Merl (born November 11, 1934 in Vienna ) is an Austrian psychoanalyst , doctor and family therapist .

Live and act

Harry Merl grew up as the son of Jewish parents - who, however, did not practice their faith - in Vienna and was one of the few Jewish children to survive the Nazi era . After the Reichspogromnacht , his parents were forced to evacuate hundreds of abandoned Jewish homes by the Vugesta . Four-year-old Harry had to stay at home alone for up to 14 hours a day. Since his father was a slave laborer in Eisenerz during the Second World War , he spent a long time alone with his mother during the war, where the book Doctor Dolittle and his animals , in which Dolittle saved the animals , was one of the decisive factors for Merl's later career choice. After finding their names on a deportation list for the Auschwitz concentration camp , the Merl family had to spend several months hiding in a coal cellar in Vienna until they were liberated by the Red Army on April 6, 1945 . Merl lost his grandparents in the Holocaust - his grandmother was murdered as a Polish Jew in the Ukraine - and other relatives.

After studying medicine, Merl became a specialist in psychiatry and neurology . From 1968 he worked at the Institute for Psychotherapy at the State Neurological Clinic Wagner-Jauregg in Linz , where he developed systemic family therapy . He built up the Institute for Family Therapy and was its head for many years. Merl is therefore referred to as the father of systemic family therapy in Austria .

As a lecturer in psychotherapy at the University of Graz and at the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna , he also taught his highest principle of loving people at the universities of Klagenfurt , Linz , Salzburg and Vienna . Since his retirement, Merl has worked as a freelance systemic therapist and supervisor .

Merl has been married to the psychotherapist and Mormon Christine Merl since 1958 . The couple has five children and lives in Gramastetten . Harry Merl also converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints of the Mormon denomination.

Publications

  • Family therapy. Basics and attempt at a theory of intervention. Marriage u. Family, Zeitschriften-Verlags-Gesellschaft, Vienna 1987, ISBN 978-3-900353-25-4 .
  • To see over the obvious or the forest for the trees. A preparatory course. Krammer Verlag, Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-901811-19-7 .
  • Systemic family therapy. Logic of interventions. heugl solution press, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-902971-03-6 .
  • The health picture. Solutions through intuition. heugl solution press, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-902971-04-3 .

Awards

Artistic exploration

Harry Merl - from persecuted Jewish child to father of family therapy. Theater production by Johannes Neuhauser. World premiere November 3, 2018, Linz grandstand .

literature

  • Pascal Merl: Harry Israel Merl - Personal memories of a Jewish child in the context of the time of National Socialism in Vienna. Bachelor thesis University of Education Upper Austria, Linz 2014.
  • Johannes Neuhauser: Harry Merl - Father of Family Therapy: A Biography. Publishing House Library of the Province , Weitra 2019, ISBN 978-3-99028-847-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b bibliothekderprovinz.at: Harry Merl - father of family therapy ; accessed on March 21, 2020
  2. ↑ a b c Renata Schmidtkunz (moderator): Harry Merl, psychoanalyst and founder of family therapy. In: Da capo: In conversation. Ö1 , March 20, 2020, accessed on March 23, 2020 (conversation with Harry Merl).
  3. ↑ a b c orf.at of October 19, 2019: Harry Merl on his faith ; accessed on March 21, 2020
  4. ↑ a b c system-worx.com: About Dr. Harry Merl ; accessed on March 21, 2020
  5. ↑ solutionpress.at: Harry Merl ; accessed on March 21, 2020
  6. ↑ Federal Chancellor of the Republic of Austria: 10542 / AB XXIV. GP - query response (electronically transmitted version). (PDF; 6.59 MB) In: parlament.gv.at. April 23, 2012, accessed March 21, 2020 .
  7. ↑ kirchenzeitung.at of October 23, 2018: The life story of Harry Merl ; accessed on March 21, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Merl, Harry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian psychoanalyst, doctor and family therapist
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna