Jürgen Kriz

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Jürgen Kriz (born December 5, 1944 in Ehrhorn ) is a German psychologist , psychotherapist and professor emeritus for psychotherapy and clinical psychology at the University of Osnabrück .

Life

Kriz studied psychology, philosophy and education as well as astronomy and astrophysics at the Universities of Hamburg and Vienna, where he received his PhD in 1969. phil. PhD. After working as an assistant at the Institute for Advanced Studies (Vienna) , he was a lecturer at the University of Hamburg and from 1972 to 1974 professor of statistics at the University of Bielefeld , Faculty of Sociology . From 1974 to 1999 he held the chair for empirical social research, statistics and philosophy of science at the University of Osnabrück. In 1980 he moved to the department of psychology, where he took over the professorship for psychotherapy and clinical psychology (overlapping with the professorship in methods until 1999). In 1999 he received his license to practice medicine as a psychotherapist. Jürgen Kriz has been an emeritus since 2010.

Kriz held visiting professorships in Vienna, Zurich, Berlin, Riga, Moscow and the USA - a. a. In 2003 the " Paul Lazarsfeld Guest Professorship" at the University of Vienna . From 1994 to 1996 he was head of the international expert committee on knowledge and action at the Vienna International Conference on the Future (WIZK); since 2000 he has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Society for Person-Centered Psychotherapy and Counseling (GwG); from 2004 to 2008 he was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for Psychotherapy (WBP).

From 1994 to 2017, Kriz was co-editor of the international multidisciplinary journal Gestalt Theory . In Springer-Verlag he publishes the textbook series Basic Knowledge Psychology with around 30 volumes so far (as of 2020).

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Kriz wrote more than 300 scientific publications, including over 20 monographs and around 100 book chapters. His main focus is on statistics and research methodology (especially the criticism of science) as well as the development of a comprehensive approach called person-centered systems theory .

Research and science criticism

After textbooks on statistics, data processing, research methods and philosophy of science, Kriz dealt primarily with the limits of formal models with regard to their informative value and application in research and work practice. In overarching works such as Methodenkritik empirischer Sozialforschung (1981) and Facts and Artefacts in Social Science (1988), he argued that invalid or even nonsensical research results are not so much the result of incorrect calculations or insufficient implementation of the formal steps. Rather, they are due to the fact that the model requirements and boundary conditions are not sufficiently taken into account. In many contributions Kriz devoted himself specifically to the criticism of an inadequate application of the experimental paradigm in psychotherapy research and an improper interpretation of randomized controlled design (RCT research). Psychotherapy research - according to his criticism - mostly neither does justice to the fact of non-linear courses in development and change processes nor does it take into account the human being as a subject. The conditions for research are not only determined by manualized actions or interventions, but also significantly influenced by the assignments of meanings and interpretations made by the patients as subjects. This makes the so-called "independent variables" in experimental designs dependent on the interpretations. The basic scheme of the experiment and the RCT logic thus become inadequate, which means that the RCT logic with its "independent" intervention variables only fits if the person is treated as an object that cannot be interpreted instead of a subject.

In addition to this fundamental misalignment of RCT psychotherapy research, Kriz has criticized numerous other problems due to questionable - mostly undiscussed - assumptions.

Person-centered systems theory

Human development processes and changes through therapy, counseling or coaching are characterized by non-linear processes in which many aspects interact. Kriz tries to take this into account with the person-centered system theory, which addresses the non-linear interactions on (at least) four process levels: In addition to the interplay of (1) psychological and (2) interpersonal processes, which are taken into account in most approaches to psychotherapy and counseling , the influences of (3) somatic (and here in particular evolutionary) and (4) cultural processes on this event are also included. Furthermore, the complementarity between "objective" perspectives of scientists, consultants etc. and the perspectives of those affected as subjects plays an important role in Kriz's approach. Kriz points out that, for example, the "objective" findings of the diagnosis are often only slightly related to the sensitivities of the subjects. Many concepts such as "stress" or "resources" are often described on the basis of "objective" factors, while other aspects are relevant for the experience and actions of the subject.

In Subject und Lebenswelt (2017), in which Kriz summarizes three decades of work on person-centered systems theory, the interaction of the four process levels and the complementarity of "objective" and subjective perspectives are fundamentally presented. Kriz shows that the distinction between "objective" description - from the 3rd person perspective - and subjective experience - from the 1st person perspective - is a purely academic-analytical figure of thought that contributes little to the understanding of human reality. Rather, both perspectives are interlinked. Because in order to be able to understand the very own "inner" impulses (of the organism), man has to apply the cultural tools (especially the language) of his social community to himself. For example, he must understand the immediate physical sensation of physiological processes as "longing" or "sadness" or "despair" and thus symbolize it. It's not just about terms or the semantics and syntax of language. Rather, the metaphors, principles of explanation and understanding, narratives, action concepts, etc. of a culture are automatically conveyed with the language.

Formally, the person-centered system theory is based on the self-organization paradigm within the framework of the theory of non-linear dynamic systems - especially synergetics . After more formal works such as Chaos and Structure (1992) or Systems Theory for Psychotherapists, Psychologists and Medicines (1999), Kriz has recently mostly dispensed with the explicit formal derivation of the fundamentals in order to appeal to a larger audience with different requirements.

Honors

  • 2002: Transfer Prize from the University of Osnabrück.
  • 2004: Grand Prize of the Viktor Frankl Fund of the City of Vienna for outstanding achievements in the field of meaningful humanistic psychotherapy.
  • 2004: Honorary membership of the Society for Logotherapy and Existential Analysis GLE International.
  • 2009: Honorary member of the Systemic Society.
  • 2014: AGHPT Award (the Working Group on Humanistic Psychotherapy ( AGHPT ) aims to "promote and disseminate humanistic psychotherapy in science and application").
  • 2015: Honorary membership of the International Society for Gestalt Therapy and its Applications.
  • 2016: Honorary award from the Society for Person-Centered Psychotherapy and Counseling eV (GwG).
  • 2019: Dr. Margrit Egnér Foundation for "new ideas and special achievements in the field of anthropological and humanistic psychology including the corresponding directions in philosophy and medicine."
  • 2020: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Fonts (selection)

  • The dispute over the eye of the needle. Body, psyche, social, culture. Where do systemic consultants look? (Ed. By Matthias Ohler). Together with Fritz Simon, Heidelberg: Carl-Auer, 2019, ISBN 978-3-8497-0313-4 .
  • Subject and lifeworld. Person-centered systems theory for psychotherapy, counseling and coaching . Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2017, ISBN 978-3-525-49163-8 .
  • Synergetics as a folder. The structuring effect of Hermann Haken's interdisciplinary ideas . Together with Wolfgang Tschacher, Lengerich: Pabst Science Publisher, 2017, ISBN 978-3-95853-330-1 .
  • System theory for coaches . Wiesbaden: Springer, 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-13281-1 .
  • Basic concepts of psychotherapy . Weinheim: Beltz, 2014 (7th edition), ISBN 978-3-621-27601-6 .
  • Chaos, fear and order. How we shape our living environment . 3. Edition. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen / Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-525-40443-0 .
  • Self-actualization. Person-Centered Approach and Systems Theory . Ross-on-Wye (UK): PCCS-books, 2008, ISBN 978-1-906254-03-2 .
  • Counseling Psychotherapy: The therapeutic diversity of the person-centered approach . (Ed. Together with Thomas Slunecko), Stuttgart: UTB, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8252-2870-5 .
  • Meaning-oriented wanting and acting between brain physiology and cultural design performance . Together with Lüder Deecke, Vienna: Picus, 2007, ISBN 978-3-85452-527-1 .
  • Living environments in upheaval. Between chaos and order. Wiener Vorlesungen Vol. 106. Vienna: Picus, 2004, ISBN 3-85452-506-0 .
  • Integrative Systems Approaches to Natural and Social Dynamics . (Ed. Together with Michael Matthies and Horst Malchow), Heidelberg: Springer, 2001, ISBN 3-540-41292-1 .
  • Systems theory for psychotherapists, psychologists and medical professionals . Vienna / Stuttgart: UTB / Facultas, 1999 (3rd edition), ISBN 978-3-8252-2084-6 .
  • Political Science Methods - Lexicon of Politics, Volume 2. (Ed. Together with Dieter Nohlen and Rainer-Olaf Schultze), Munich: Beck, 1994, ISBN 978-3-406-36906-3 .
  • Chaos and structure . Systems theory vol. 1. Munich, Berlin: Quintessenz, 1992, ISBN 3-928036-69-6 .
  • Method lexicon for medical professionals, psychologists, sociologists . Beltz, Weinheim 1988, ISBN 3-621-27056-6 (together with Ralf Lisch).
  • Facts and Artefacts in Social Science. An epistemological and methodological analysis of social science research techniques . McGraw-Hill, Hamburg / New York 1988, ISBN 3-89028-096-X .
  • Science and Epistemology . Together with Helmut E. Lück and Horst Heidbrink, Opladen: Leske & Budrich, 1996 (3rd edition), ISBN 978-3-8100-0862-6 .
  • Language development disorders. Theoretical models and therapeutic practice (= Patholinguistica. Volume 13). Fink, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-7705-2224-9 (Ed.).
  • Method critique of empirical social research. A problem analysis of social science research practice . Stuttgart: Teubner, 1981 (Study Scripts on Sociology, Vol. 49), ISBN 3-519-00049-0 .
  • Basics and models of content analysis. Inventory and criticism . Together with Ralf Lisch , Reinbek: Rowohlt, 1978 (rororo-studium Bd. 117), ISBN 3-499-21117-3 .
  • Data processing for social scientists . Reinbek: Rowohlt, 1975 (rororo-studium Bd. 45), ISBN 3-499-21045-2 .
  • Statistics in the social sciences . Reinbek: Rowohlt, 1973, Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1985 (5th edition), ISBN 3-531-22029-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Basic knowledge of psychology . Edited by Jürgen Kriz, ISSN  2626-0441 .
  2. ↑ Ceremony for the »dies academicus«: Mühlenhoff habilitation award to physicists - Unigesellschaft awards three doctoral prizes - advancement award for good academic teaching. University of Osnabrück, June 19, 2002.
  3. ^ Viktor Frankl Prize: Prize Winner.
  4. ↑ Much deserved for humanistic psychotherapy - psychologist from the University of Osnabrück receives Grand Prize from the Viktor Frankl Fund . Osnabrück University: Press release No. 279/2004.
  5. ↑ Grand Prize of the Viktor Frankl Fund to Jürgen Kriz . In: Der Standard, March 31, 2005.
  6. ↑ Honorary members of GLE International.
  7. ↑ Honorary Members of the Systemic Society.
  8. ↑ Mark Helle: Laudation for Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kriz on the award of the AGHPT prize for scientific achievements in the field of humanistic psychotherapy. Berlin, September 26, 2014.
  9. ↑ Honorary members of the GTA.
  10. ↑ Psychologist Prof. em. Dr. Jürgen Kriz receives GwG honorary award. Osnabrück University: press release No. 138/2016.
  11. ↑ Announcement of the awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany from July 1, 2020.
  12. ↑ Congratulations from AGHPT on being awarded the Cross of Merit.
personal data
SURNAME Kriz, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist and psychotherapist
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Ehrhorn