Konrad Stauss

Konrad Stauss, 2016

Konrad Stauss (born March 16, 1943 in Stuttgart ; † August 29, 2016 in Bad Grönenbach ) was a specialist in psychotherapeutic medicine, specialist in psychiatry, specialist in neurology and rehabilitation. He founded the Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine Bad Grönenbach and headed it as medical director. At the South German Academy for Psychotherapy, he worked as a lecturer for further training for doctors and psychologists.

Career

Konrad Stauss was born and raised in Stuttgart in 1943. He studied medicine in Tübingen, Vienna and Münster and received his doctorate in Münster in 1970. From 1972 to 1975 he worked at the "Landeskrankenhaus Lengerich" (today "LWL-Klinik Lengerich"), with training in behavioral therapy (1974) and training as a "specialist in neurology and psychiatry" (1976). From 1975 to 1978 he worked in the "Psychosomatic Clinic Bad Herrenalb" and acquired the additional title "Psychotherapy" (1978). From 1978 to 1979 he worked at the University of Bad Homburg. From 1979 to 2000 he was head of the Bad Grönenbach Psychosomatic Clinic. This was followed by the title of “specialist in psychotherapeutic medicine” (1994), additional title “rehabilitation system” (1996) and recognition as “supervisor for psychotherapeutic medicine” (1996).

Bad Herrenalb

"Konni" Stauss was an assistant doctor from 1975 to 1978 and later a senior doctor with Walther Lechler in the Bad Herrenalb Psychosomatic Clinic. There he got to know the Bad Herrenalber model and the therapeutic community , the 12-step program and the Casriel therapy . The concept went well with the psychiatry enquête of the time (1975), the move away from custody towards social psychiatry . In the therapeutic work with mentally ill and addicts of all kinds, life in a therapeutic community was known to be particularly effective.

Bonding therapy

Stauss contributed significantly to the spread of bonding therapy and described the method and its background in his book "Bondingpsychotherapie" in modern psychological terms based on the consistency theory of Grawe , the attachment theory , modern brain research and the process-experience approach of Greenberg (1984 ) and Elliot (1999).

Psychosomatic Clinic Bad Grönenbach

Konrad Stauss took over the Psychosomatic Clinic Bad Grönenbach in 1979. For more than twenty years until 2000 he led and shaped the clinic as medical director. The work was based on the Herrenalber model and the therapeutic community , as well as the bonding therapy and the 12-step program . The house had 175 beds and 120 employees accompanied the patients on their way. Until 2000, Grönenbach was one of the clinics that worked according to the Herrenalber model. The clinic had an eventful history of ownership: first “Bad Berleburger Kurkliniken”, renamed “Wittgensteiner Kuranstalt GmbH”, then sold to the “Helios-Kliniken” and today owned by Fresenius.

Stauss also passed on his experience in countless lectures far beyond the clinic, to patients of friendly clinics, to colleagues, and at public events. Since 1991 he has worked as a lecturer at the South German Academy for Psychotherapy. In 2000 Jürgen Klingelhöfer, who had been part of the therapeutic team since 1980, took over the medical management until 2006. Today, the work of the clinic is carried out by Dr. Jochen von Wahlert, former doctor, senior physician with Konrad Stauss and later with Klingelhöfer, now continued in the Psychosomatic Private Clinic Bad Grönenbach.

Forgiveness and reconciliation

Konrad Stauss, 2006

In the last few years Konrad Stauss has dealt intensively with the issues of forgiveness and guilt competence. The aim is to cope with passively suffered guilt and actively committed guilt. The competence to forgive and guilt are the prerequisites for reconciliation. He founded the “Network Forgiveness and Reconciliation” and trained therapists. He writes:

“Most emotional wounds are fought on the 'battlefield of love'. On this battlefield people kill, injure, betray, lie and deceive one another. They offend and are offended. You disappoint and get disappointed. Sometimes they are victims, sometimes they are perpetrators. They hit deep wounds both physically and mentally. "

- Konrad Stauss

“In reconciliation, victims and perpetrators enter into a dialogue in order to make peace with one another. That is the ideal process. Often, however, reconciliation does not succeed because either the perpetrator or the victim is unwilling to do so or cannot for other reasons. Even so, there is the path of forgiveness for the victim and the path of self-forgiveness for the perpetrator in order to gain inner peace. Self-forgiveness is the process one can go through to accept and accept oneself despite the guilt. [..] Before reconciliation comes the process of forgiveness on the part of the victim and the way of dealing with guilt on the part of the perpetrator. Both processes are predominantly inner-soul processes to purify the heart (puritas cordis) in order to become capable of reconciliation. "

- Konrad Stauss

The path of reconciliation consists of seven steps:

1. The way of the cross

2. The way of prosecution

3. The way of empathy

4. The way of mercy

5. The Way of the Holy

6. The way of maintaining forgiveness

7. The way of reconciliation

literature

• Konrad Stauss: New Concepts for Borderline Syndrome. Inpatient treatment according to the methods of transaction analysis - The Grönenbacher Model , Junfermann, Paderborn 1993, ISBN 3-87387-110-6 .
• Konrad Stauss: Bonding Psychotherapy - Basics and Methods . Kösel-Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-466-30716-3 . New edition, Tredition Verlag, Hamburg 2015
• Konrad Stauss: The healing power of forgiveness , 4th edition, Kösel Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-466-36892-1 ( reading sample )
• Konrad Stauss: Self-forgiveness through guilt competence , Tredition Verlag, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-7323-4890-9 ( reading sample )
• Konrad Stauss: Paula's seven steps to forgiveness (PDF), in THEMA, 2014
• Konrad Stauss: The Power of Forgiveness (PDF), in Charisms 2014 and in GEO WISSEN No. 55, 2015
• Konrad Stauss: The Art of Reconciliation - How It Works. With couples, in families, between peoples , in GEO, No. 1/2016
• Konrad Stauss: Bonding Psychotherapy. Overcoming bondage violations or: - Being is being in a relationship. in: Psychotherapeutic Perspectives at the End of Life. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-525-40288-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Martin Hambrecht: Starting life anew - When therapy becomes a school of life ( Memento of the original from January 31, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Twelve & Twelve, 1982, ISBN 3930657139 
2. ↑ Lecture: Guilt and Forgiveness in Couple Relationships. "People are most vulnerable when their attachment needs are violated." (PDF)
3. ↑ Kathrin Schmitt: Commemoration for Dr. Konni Stauss. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 27, 2018 ; accessed on March 17, 2018 (German). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Forgiveness and Reconciliation Network
5. ↑ Konrad Strauss: The healing power of forgiveness, p. 76
6. ↑ site dr-stauss.de
7. ↑ The 7 steps to reconciliation