Juerg Willi

Jürg Willi (born March 16, 1934 in Zurich ; † April 8, 2019 ibid) was a Swiss specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy as well as a psychoanalyst , who also became known as an author beyond specialist circles. Until 1999 he was director of the Psychiatric Polyclinic at the University Hospital Zurich and full professor for Polyclinical Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Diseases at the University of Zurich . From 1999 to 2009 he headed the Institute for Ecological-Systemic Therapy in Zurich, which he co-founded.

Life

Willi was the second of four children of the pediatrician and professor of neonatology Heinrich Willi and his wife Marie-Louise Chuardt (1904–1991). He studied medicine, in 1960 he began his training analysis at Medard Boss and became a psychoanalyst.

From 1965, Willi was the first to carry out couples therapies in the German-speaking area . Since then, partner relationships and personal development in partner relationships have been the focus of his research and training activities. Willi introduced the terms collusion , coevolution , personal niche , impact-based curriculum vitae and ecological psychotherapy into the psychotherapy of partner relationships. In later times Willi also dealt with questions of spirituality .

Willi was married to the object artist Margaretha Dubach from 1963 until his death , they had two sons (* 1964 and * 1971) and lived in Zurich. Most recently he suffered from Parkinson's disease ; he died in April 2019 at the age of 85.

Together with his wife, he staged exhibitions in museums from 1994:

• The total healing method from Prof. Pilzbarth. Medical History Museum, University of Zurich, 1994
• The real life of Helvetia. Swiss National Museum , Zurich, 1998
• The strange spa treatments by Prof. Pilzbarth. Musée Bizarre, Rieden , 2000 (own museum in an old factory hall)

Honors

In 1999 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Friborg and in 2002 the International Otto Mainz Prize for the Science of Love . His book The Relationship between Two was included in Alfred Pritzen's book One Hundred Masterpieces of Psychotherapy .

Works

As a sole author

• The effects of schizophrenia on parents. Investigations of the parents of 15 young schizophrenics, Diss.Orell Füssli , Zurich 1962.
• Application of the joint Rorschach experiment in marriage therapy and research. Rorschachiana 11, German Edition. Hans Huber Verlag , Bern 1974. ISBN 978-3-456-30616-2 .
• The joint Rorschach experiment. Diagnosis of couple and group relationships. Hans Huber, Bern. ISBN 978-3-456-30575-2 .
• The two-way relationship. Causes of tension, disruption patterns, clarification processes, solution models. rororo , Reinbek 1975. ISBN 978-3-499-62758-3 (several editions; translated into 7 languages).
• Therapy of two-way relationships. Klett-Cotta , Stuttgart 1978. (Several editions; completely revised new edition with subtitle: Introduction to analytical couples therapy - application of the concept of collusion - relationship design in the therapeutic triangle. 2008. ISBN 978-3-608-94522-5 ; translated into 4 languages) .
• Ko-evolution - the art of growing together Rowohlt, Reinbek 1985 (new edition 1989. ISBN 978-3-499-18536-6 ).
• The two-way relationship. Causes of tension - disruption patterns - clarification processes - solution models. Analysis of the unconscious interplay in partner choice and couple conflict: the collusion concept. rororo, Reinbek 20th edition 1990. ISBN 978-3-499-60509-3 .
• What keeps couples together? rororo, Reinbek 1991. (10th edition 1993. ISBN 978-3-499-60508-6 ; Rowohlt, Reinbek 1997. ISBN 978-3-499-19394-1 ; translated into three languages).
• Ecological psychotherapy. How personal development and life situation influence each other. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2005. ISBN 978-3-499-61982-3 (translated into two languages).
• Psychology of love. Personal development through partner relationships. rororo, Reinbek 2002 (7th edition 2004. ISBN 978-3-499-61634-1 ; translated into three languages).
• Turning points in the resume. Personal development under changed circumstances - the ecological view of psychotherapy. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2007. ISBN 978-3-608-94438-9 (4th edition 2013. ISBN 978-3-608-94809-7 ).
• The art of growing together Herder Verlag , Freiburg 2007. ISBN 978-3-451-29607-9 .

As co-author and editor

• With Margaretha Dubach : Viktor, Nock and Sadi-Madi. Sauerländer Verlag , Aarau 1967.
• With Manfred Bleuler and Hans Rudi Bühler : Acute psychological side effects of physical illnesses. Thieme Verlag , Stuttgart 1984. ISBN 978-3-13-308501-4 .
• With Edgar Heim among others: Psychosocial Medicine. Health and illness from a bio-psycho-social point of view. Part 1: Basics. Springer , Berlin 1986. ISBN 978-3-540-16121-9 .
• With Felix Tretter , Manfred Zumtobel and Michael B. Buchholz : Psychoecology. Psychosozial-Verlag , Giessen 1988. ISBN 978-3-930096-06-0 .
• With Horst-Eberhard Richter and Hans Strotzka : Family and Mental Illness - A New Perspective in Psychological Medicine and Social Therapy. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1990. ISBN 978-3-498-05681-0 .
• With Margaretha Dubach: Overcoming being human. According to the healing method of Prof. Pilzbarth. Haffmans Verlag , Zurich 1994. ISBN 978-3-251-00264-1 (new edition: Walter Verlag , Olten 2003. ISBN 978-3-530-42169-9 ).
• With Margaretha Dubach: The real life of Helvetia. Haffmans, Zurich 1998. ISBN 978-3-251-00398-3 .
• With Claus Buddeberg : Psychosocial Medicine. Textbook, Springer, Berlin 2nd edition 1998. ISBN 978-3-540-63955-8 .
• With Margaretha Dubach: Prof. Pilzbarth's peculiar spa treatments. Book accompanying the exhibitions by Margaretha Dubach and Jürg Willi. Haffmans, Zurich 2001. ISBN 978-3-251-00528-4 .
• With Robert Frei and Georg Hänny : Ecological Psychotherapy. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2005. ISBN 978-3-499-61982-3 .
• With Bernhard Limacher : When love wanes: possibilities and limits of couple therapy. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2005 (2nd edition 2007. ISBN 978-3-608-94409-9 ).
• With Tobia Bezzola , Thomas Binotto, Beat Brechbühl , Margaretha Dubach, Alois Maria Haas , Herbert Meier and Niklaus Oberholzer : Margaretha Dubach: From the hidden stories of things. Benteli , Bern 2011. ISBN 978-3-7165-1686-7 .

Audio

• Is falling in love an important basis for a marital partnership? Lecture at the conference "Affective Communication" Zurich 1997; Institute for Systemic Therapy, Auditorium, Meilen 1997. ISBN 978-3-8302-0485-5
• With Michael L. Moeller and Manfred Menzel : partner therapy and sex therapy. Carl Auer Systems , Heidelberg 1997. ISBN 978-3-89670-049-0
• Personal development and the relationship with the opposite sex. Walter, Olten 2002. ISBN 978-3-530-40519-4
• Psychology of love. Audio-Torium, Jokers Edition 2008
• With Helmut Enke and Hannelore Eibach : Play and interaction in psychotherapy. Carl Auer Systems, Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-931574-90-1

Web links

Wikiquote: Jürg Willi  - Quotes

• Publications by and about Jürg Willi in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
• Literature by and about Jürg Willi in the catalog of the German National Library
• Hubert Steinke : Willi, Jürg. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Lecture The Threatened Regulation of the Psychological and Social Ecology of Humans in the Context of the Lindau Psychotherapy Weeks 1993, Lindau Texts 1994, pp. 143–158 Springer, Heidelberg (pdf)
• Lecture liturgy and psychotherapy (video), Vienna, May 4, 2009
• Alan Niederer: An interview with couple therapist Jürg Willi. “Personal relationships are the most important thing” , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , March 15, 2014
• Urs Tremp: Relationship as a life's work. Obituary in: NZZ on Sunday , April 21, 2019, p. 23.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Alan Niederer: The couple therapist Jürg Willi has died | NZZ . April 15, 2019, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed April 16, 2019]).
2. ↑ Institute ( Memento from January 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), website of the Institute for Ecological-Systemic Therapy, accessed on January 3, 2016.
3. ↑ Jürg Willi: Liturgy and Psychotherapy , lecture on May 4, 2009, RPP 2009 Liturgie & Psyche, Heiligenkreuz im Wienerwald
4. ↑ Satuila Stierlin: I was burning with curiosity! Family stories of important family therapists. Carl Auer Systems, Heidelberg 2001, ISBN 3-89670-209-2 , pp. 164-190.
5. ^ Alfred Pritz (ed.): One hundred masterpieces of psychotherapy. Springer, Vienna / New York 2008, p. 198 f.