Ilse Seglow
Ilse Seglow (born October 28, 1900 in Hamburg , † July 9, 1984 in London ) was a German-British psychotherapist , social worker , actress and a pioneer of group analysis . Seglow is a self-chosen name that Ilse, geb. Seligmann, married. Goldner and married Brick foliage had increased in exile in London.
Life
Childhood and youth
As the daughter of the liberal rabbi Caesar Seligmann and his wife Ella, b. Kauffmann, Ilse Magdalene Seligmann was born on October 28, 1900 in Hamburg. She had two older brothers and a younger sister, Eleonore Seligmann, who later called herself Evelyn Anderson .
The Seligmann family moved to Frankfurt am Main in 1902 , where Ilse attended school. She is described as a rebellious child who found the courage early to protest against perceived injustice. Though extremely intelligent, her poor math grades, neglect of homework, and tendency to fool teachers led to her dropping out of high school.
Ilse Seligmann initially worked as a kindergarten teacher and social worker and completed an acting training with Louise Dumont in Düsseldorf. She has been involved in the German-Jewish youth movement, Kameraden, since school . Here she met the doctor Martin Gerhard Goldner, whom she married in 1926. The couple moved to Berlin together , where Ilse Goldner was enthusiastic about Erwin Piscator's political theater . She took on various engagements on German theaters until the director in Potsdam told her in 1929 that she was very talented, but looked too Jewish. She decided to become a psychoanalyst and was admitted to study sociology, psychology and history in Berlin in 1930 after passing the gifted test.
In Berlin, she frequented bohemian meeting places such as the Lunte and the Catacomb and became a member of the Communist Party of Germany . In 1931 she worked at Wilhelm Reich's counseling center for sex education ( Sexpol ). At the end of 1931, after divorcing Goldner, she switched to studying sociology with Karl Mannheim at Frankfurt University . Her doctoral thesis entitled “Acting and Society” was supervised by Norbert Elias , with whom she had a lifelong friendship. It was decisively shaped by the evening rounds of discussion at the Institute for Social Research in Café Laumer , where, in addition to Mannheim and Elias, personalities such as Paul Tillich , Erich Fromm , Max Horkheimer , Theodor Adorno , Kurt Goldstein , Max Wertheimer and Sigmund Fuchs (who later joined the Exile called SH Foulkes and developed the group analysis). She began an analysis with Karl Landauer . By Max Eitingon she was on a training Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute promised as soon as they had completed their studies. Due to the political developments in Germany, however, she was unable to complete her dissertation or receive psychoanalytic training.
exile
In 1933 Ilse Goldner was threatened with arrest as a communist in the resistance against National Socialism and as a Jew . She fled to Paris with her new partner, the dramaturge Joseph Ziegellaub . The two married and their son Peter was born. Ilse Ziegellaub helped set up an aid committee for Jewish refugees and earned a living for her family through bookbinding. In 1934 the Ziegellaubs returned to Berlin, where Ilse worked in her friend Nelly Wolffheim 's psychoanalytical kindergarten teacher seminar. In 1937 Ilse Ziegellaub emigrated with her family to England , where her sister Evelyn had already taken shelter. The parents and other friends were also brought to England. A scholarship enabled Ilse Ziegellaub to train as a psychiatric social worker at the London School of Economics, followed by work at various educational counseling centers and schools. In 1944 she divorced Joseph Ziegellaub and called herself Ilse Seglow from then on. In 1949 Ilse Seglow went to Vienna in order to gain admission to the International Psychoanalytic Association through a training analysis with Otto Fleischmann and supervision by August Aichhorn . However, the project failed because of the sudden death of Aichhorn and Fleischmann's emigration to the United States , whereupon Seglow returned to London.
Group analysis
Together with Patrick DeMare , Claire Winnicott, Walter Schindler , Jane Abercrombie, Malcom Pines, Norbert Elias and others, Ilse Seglow took part in the first group analysis sessions of SH Foulkes in 1952. The Group Analytic Society was founded . In 1951 Ilse Seglow was one of the founding members of the British Association of Psychotherapists , a professional association of non-medical psychotherapists in various directions. Together with colleagues, Seglow organized counseling offers that met with lively demand, which was also due to the fact that the fees were based on the income of the patients. In 1973, Seglow founded the London Center for Psychotherapy and directed it into old age. In 1979, students of her established the Institute for Group Analysis in Heidelberg , which, in the spirit of Ilse Seglow, not only trains doctors and psychologists, but also social workers, teachers and theologians, all those who have to do with groups in their professions.
In addition to the effort to further develop the socially critical potential of group analysis, Seglow's practice was associated with a special social commitment, “the idealistic vision that analytical psychotherapy should be made available to those who were hungry for such help, whether they could pay for it or not . "
literature
- Georg R. Gfäller, Grete Leutz (ed.): Group analysis, group dynamics, psychodrama: sources and traditions - contemporary witnesses report. 2nd Edition. Mattes Verlag, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-930978-87-3 .
- Nini Herman: Ilse Seglow in her time. Reflections on her life and work. In: British Journal of Psychotherapy , Vol. 5/1989, No. 3, ISSN 1752-0118 , pp. 431-441.
- Dietlind Köhncke: Take a look - German roots of group analysis. In: Gruppenananalyse Vol. 1, 1991, Issue 2, ISSN 0939-4273 , pp. 1-20.
- Claudia Schaumann: Ilse Seglow - sketches for her résumé. In: Gruppenananalyse Vol. 2, 1992, Issue 1, ISSN 0939-4273 , pp. 1-16.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Quoted from Claudia Schaumann: Ilse Seglow - sketches for her curriculum vitae. In: Gruppenananalyse 2/1992, Issue 1, ISSN 0939-4273 , p. 12.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seglow, Ilse |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brick foliage, Ilse; Goldner, Ilse; Seligmann, Ilse |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-British group analyst |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 28, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 9, 1984 |
| Place of death | London |