Jirina Prekop

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Jirina Prekop (2010)

Jirina Prekop , actually Jiřina Prekopová (born October 14, 1929 in Prostějov ; † September 7, 2020 in Prague ), was a Czechoslovak or Czech psychologist .

Life

Jirina Prekop left Czechoslovakia in 1970 after studying psychology , philosophy and education and settled in the Federal Republic of Germany . She worked as a psychologist in the Olgahospital in Stuttgart . In 1981 she took over the principles of restraint therapy for the alleged cure of autism from the American psychologist Martha Welch and developed them using the “systemic approach” of the also controversial Bert Hellinger, continue to “Prekop Holding Therapy”. In addition, she published several educational guides and supported the family-political Christian - conservative interest group Familiennetzwerk , which is primarily committed to childcare outside the family. Jirina Prekop lived temporarily in Lindau and most recently in Prague.

criticism

Critics consider Prekop's therapeutic approach to be pseudoscientific. Therapy is based on the assumption that autism is caused by a disturbed mother-child relationship ; this approach is part of a tradition of explanation that was established by Bruno Bettelheim and Nikolaas Tinbergen . Many parents of autistic children felt guilty about the development of the children and their guilt feelings were confirmed by psychologists who saw the cause of autism in the parenting errors of " refrigerator mothers ". A form of therapy that promised healing with the active participation of the mothers led some mothers to hope to make amends for the alleged wrongdoing. The fact that the autistic children defended themselves massively was accepted. The aim of the procedure is to break the will of the autistic child. For a long time, a genetic disposition has been seen as the main cause of autism , so that the depth psychological approach is considered incorrect in the professional world.

Children who were subjected to this therapy showed symptoms of the so-called Stockholm syndrome rather than real therapeutic success. Ultimately, violence is practically exercised on the children, sometimes by holding the children for hours. Autistic people who have undergone this type of therapy report experiences of trauma.

Works

The following books by Jirina Prekop have been published by Kösel-Verlag , Munich:

literature

To person

  • Kürschner's German Non-Fiction Calendar , year 2003/2004, Volume 2

For restraint therapy

  • Lutz Dietrich Herbst, Against the compulsions of the "autistic". Notes on mother and child retention therapy for children with relationship problems , in: Zeitschrift für Heilpaedagogik , vol. 1986, pp. 180–188; also in: Disabled Education , 1988, pp. 197–206
  • Georg Feuser , aspects of a critique of the process of "forced holding" (restraint therapy) in autistic and otherwise disabled children and adolescents , in: Georg Feuser, Wolfgang Jantzen (ed.), Yearbook for Psychopathology and Psychotherapy , 1987, p. 73 -134
  • Wolfgang Hinte, Die kleine Tyrannin or: Two hours with Frau Prekop in a room (review of Prekop's book Der kleine Tyrann ), in: Päd. Extra & Demokratie Erziehungs , vol. 1988, pp. 45–48
  • Ulrich H. Rohmann, Ulrich Elbing, Holding Therapy and Body Therapy: Description and critical appraisal of mother-child holding therapy, anger reduction method, holding therapy, basic communication, modified holding therapy, music-body experience therapy, integrative body therapy, body-focused interaction , 1990, ISBN 3-8080-0206-9 .
  • Falk Burchard, Holding Therapy in Criticism , 1992, ISBN 3-89166-139-8 .
  • Ute Benz (ed.), Violence against Children. Traumatization through therapy? , 2004, ISBN 3-936411-60-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zemřela psycholožka Jiřina Prekopová, propagátorka pevného objetí , idnez.cz, 8 September 2020
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from September 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Conference of the Family Network, 2010 ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Udo Schuster, Prekop Holding Therapy - Effective Help or Child Abuse Disguised in Pseudo-Scientific Disguise? , www.religio.de
  5. ↑ Adelheid Müller-Lissner, And are you not willing , Tagesspiegel from October 8, 2004
personal data
SURNAME Prekop, Jirina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prekopová, Jiřina (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Prostějov
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 2020
Place of death Prague