Lucy Ackerknecht

Lucy Ackerknecht with Kurt Adler

Lucy Ackerknecht (born July 27, 1913 in Berlin ; † November 12, 1997 in Oakland ) was a German psychotherapist and author.

Life

Lucy Ackerknecht was a pioneer of individual psychology in Germany. After Hitler came to power, she had to flee as a board member of the SAJ (youth organization of the SPD ). Her emigration led her to the USA via England and France. As a studied anthropologist and psychologist, she completed her individual psychological psychoanalysis training with Alexander Müller , a student of Alfred Adler . During her tenure as a professor at the John F. Kennedy University in California and as head of the psychology department, she founded the international Western Institute for Research and Training in Humanics (WIRTH), a training institute for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and consultants , in 1966 . In 1967, at the request of the "German Alfred Adler Society", she held the first post-war courses in individual psychology in the FRG for prospective counselors and psychotherapists and was thus significantly involved in the training of the first post-war generation of individual psychologists in Germany.

Lucy K. Ackerknecht was a committed individual psychologist at the traditional Adler school and taught her students in this sense. Like Alfred Adler , she always refused to approach Freud's psychoanalysis . She has taught as Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Licensed School Psychologist, Licensed Marriage, Family and Child Counselor, Certified Adlerian Training Analyst and Certified Psychoanalytic Training Analyst in the USA as well as in Germany, Luxembourg, Austria and Switzerland.

She died on November 12, 1997 in California, her adopted home .

Fonts

• Life Meanings of Future Teachers. A Value Study, New York 1964.
• Individual psychological child and adolescent psychotherapy. Reinhard, Munich, Basel 1982, ISBN 978-3497009893 .
• Marathon, Adlerian style. In: Journal of Individual Psychology. Vol. 27, 176/180, 1971.
• Involvement as Leitmotif of a Psychotherapeutic Practice. In: The Individual Psychologist. Vol. IX, No. 1, May 1972.
• Family Counseling in Schools and Child Care Centers. In: The Marriage & Family Counselors Quarterly. Vol. 8, No. 2, 1973.
• Early childhood memories and their relevance to lifestyle analysis. In: Journal for Individual Psychology. 3rd year. 1978.
• Creative Dream Work in High and Low Synergy Cultures. In: Individual Psychology. Journal of Adlerian Theory, Research & Practice. Vol. 41, No. 3, 9/1985.
• The Changing Situation of the Ederly in Present-Day-Society. In: International Journal of Individual Psychology and Comparative Studies. Vol. 1, No. July 1, 1991
• Lifestyle changes as a reevaluation of the fictional world. In: Humanistic Psychology. Half-year book 2/1997, 20th year, aspects of applied individual psychology , ISBN 3-923636-24-5 .
• Ackerknecht, Lucy K., Thomas Kopetzky, Bernd Kowol, Klaus Lumma, Hedwig Schlaghecken, Maatje Suzanna Quaak, Brigitte Vielhaus: Revival zu Adler's social psychology In: Humanist Psychology Half-Year Book 2/1997, Volume 20, Aspects of Applied Individual Psychology , ISBN 3-923636 -24-5 .

literature

• Bernd Kowol: Happy Birthday, Lucy. In: Educational Psychotherapy. Association journal of the BVPPT. Eschweiler, 15th edition, February 1997.
• From individual psychology to orientation analysis. Festschrift for Lucy Ackerknecht. In: Lumma, Klaus (ed.), Humanistic Psychology. Half-year book 2/1993, 16th year, ISBN 3-923636-17-2 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Lucy Ackerknecht in the catalog of the German National Library