Iván Böszörményi-Nagy

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Iván Böszörményi-Nagy (born May 19, 1920 in Budapest , † January 28, 2007 in Glenside , Pennsylvania ) was a Hungarian doctor , psychotherapist and university professor who, as a resistance fighter under Hitler and Stalin, was forced to emigrate to the United States in 1950 . He is the founder of contextual therapy and made significant contributions to the development of systemic family therapy .

Life

Böszörményi-Nagy received his doctorate in 1944 for Dr. med. at the University of Budapest and in 1948 became an assistant professor in the local psychiatry. Via Salzburg , where he advised the International Refugee Organization , he came to Chicago and New York . In 1957 he founded - together with Geraldine Spark - one of the first research centers for family therapy at the Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute (EPPI) in Philadelphia . It was based on empirical data showing that treating schizophrenic patients was more effective when family members were included. This foundation later developed into the largest family therapy training center in the United States. From 1976 to 1994 he was head of family therapy in the Psychiatric Department of Drexel University in Philadelphia.

The most important of his innovations will probably be remembered as the multigenerational perspective . Based on Hegel , Buber and Fairbairn , he combines four elements of the factual, the individual psychological, transactionality and relationship ethics, the balance of give and take (balance), into one form of therapy. Böszörményi-Nagy has also introduced new terms such as loyalty , parentification and impartiality .

Compensation and the multi-generational perspective are essential foundations of constellation work today .

Fonts

German-language publications
  • Family therapy: theory and Praxis , edited by Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy a. James L. Framo. Reinbek near Hamburg 1975 (2 volumes)
  • Dialectical considerations of intergenerational family therapy. Marriage 12: 117-131
  • Man and woman: earnings accounts in the gender roles. Family Dynamics 2: 35-49
  • Group loyalty as a motive for political terrorism. (Together with BR Krasner). Family Dynamics 3: 199-208
  • Contextual Therapy: Therapeutic Strategies for Building Trust. Family Dynamics 6: 176-195
  • Invisible bonds , The dynamics of familial systems, Stuttgart 1981 (original edition and German first edition 1973)

literature

  • Renate Riegler-Singer: Boszormenyi-Nagy, Ivan . In: Stumm / Pritz: Personal Lexicon of Psychotherapy , Vienna, New York 2005, 60-62

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marlene F. Watson: Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy, MD: a testimony to life , obituary in: Journal of Marital and Family Therapy , July 2007, on findarticles.com, accessed May 3, 2009 (English)
  2. ↑ "Nonetheless, an inner subjective quantification of give and take must form the basis of the account, which must then be balanced in all subsequent human relationships." ( Invisible bindings, The dynamics of familial systems , Stuttgart 1981, p. 234.)
  3. ↑ "The guilt and merit-accounts within the overall system, however, has its own factual reality and a corresponding intergenerational motivation structure." ( Invisible bonds The dynamics of family systems , Stuttgart 1981, p 77.)
personal data
SURNAME Böszörményi-Nagy, Iván
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian doctor, psychotherapist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 2007
Place of death Glenside , Pennsylvania