Maria Hippius Countess Dürckheim

Maria Theresia Hippius Countess Dürckheim (born January 14, 1909 in Wiesbaden ; † February 26, 2003 in Todtmoos ) was a German psychologist . She developed the method of “guided drawing” and, together with her partner Karlfried Graf Dürckheim, “initiatic therapy”. The two also founded the existential-psychological educational and meeting place Todtmoos-Rütte.

Live and act

Hippius was born as the daughter of the officer Otto Albrecht Winterer (1881–1941) and his wife Mercedes Kreizner (1889–1948). After her parents divorced in 1912, she moved with her father from Constance via Freiburg im Breisgau and Ulm to Berlin , where she graduated from high school in 1927 . She studied psychology in Berlin, Freiburg and Leipzig , here at the Felix Krueger Psychological Institute . She was particularly influenced by the theory of expression and character studies of the philosopher Ludwig Klages and the work of the biologist Hans Driesch . She did her doctorate under Johannes Rudert in 1932 with a graphological thesis on the subject of "Graphic Expression of Emotions". In Leipzig she met not only Count Dürckheim, but also Rudolf Hippius , whom she married in 1932. She assisted her husband in his studies and work in Dorpat , Posen and Prague , where the main aim was to develop results and materials for the "Germanization policy" of National Socialist Germany. When the Red Army marched in , Rudolf Hippius was captured in Prague. He died in an internment camp. Maria Hippius fled with her three children to her brother in Todtmoos.

In Todtmoos she built up a strongly graphologically oriented psychotherapeutic practice. There she met Count Dürckheim again in 1948. In the early 1950s she undertook a training analysis with the young student Gustav Richard Heyer , who strongly influenced her with CG Jung's analytical psychology. She also studied with Erich Neumann and Jean Gebser . In 1951, together with Count Dürckheim, whom she married in 1985, she founded the existential-psychological educational and meeting place Todtmoos-Rütte.

The initiatic therapy, which the two developed, is a transpersonal psychotherapy based on depth psychology with elements of Zen . She linked insights from unified and holistic psychology with depth psychological concepts, Christian mysticism and the practice paths of Zen. With guided drawing, which goes back to Hippius' dissertation, the aim is to make certain topics visible and interpretable as if by themselves with closed eyes and in as unintentional an attitude as possible. Maria Hippius headed the center in Rütte herself until 1992. Then she gradually withdrew into private life.

One of her and Karlfried Dürckheim's students was the actress, psychologist and psychotherapist Vera Kohn , who emigrated from Prague to Ecuador in 1939 and underwent therapy and training in Rütte (Todtmoos) between 1957 and 1961.

Fonts

• as Maria-Theresia Winterer: Graphic expression of feelings. Barth, Leipzig, Leipzig 1936.
• as Maria Theresia Hippius: domestic culture as a woman's task. Lecturer Maria Theresa Hippius. With drawing v. H. v. to the mills. Krüger, Tartu Dorpat 1938.
• Maria Hippius (ed.): Transcendence as experience. Contribution and response; Festschrift for the 70th birthday of Count Dürckheim. Barth, Weilheim 1966.
• Maria Hippius and Karlfried Dürckheim: existential-psychological educational and meeting place. School for Initiatic Therapy. Förderungsgesellschaft, Todtmoos-Rütte 1969.
• Gisela Dreher-Richels and Maria Hippius: Traces in the sand. Texts for on the go. sn], [Sl 1981.
• Thomas Doctor, Maria Hippius and Roland A. Dollinger: Unus mundus. Cosmos and sympathy: Contributions to the idea of ​​the unity of man and cosmos. P. Lang, Frankfurt am Main ;, New York 1992, ISBN 9783631449943 .
• Thomas Arzt, Roland A. Dollinger and Maria Hippius: Philosophia naturalis. Contributions to a contemporary natural philosophy. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1996, ISBN 9783826011795 .
• Maria Countess Hippius-Dürckheim: mystery and risk of the incarnation. Writings on Initiatic Therapy. ed. by Volker Willrodt . Novalis, Schaffhausen 1996, ISBN 3721406753 .
• Thomas Arzt, KA Müller and Maria Hippius: Young and Younger. Similarities and opposites in the works of Carl Gustav Jung and Ernst Jünger. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1999, ISBN 3826016335 .
• Maria Hippius-Dürckheim: On the thread of time and eternity. The guided drawing. Vier-Türme-Verl., Münsterschwarzach approx. 1999, ISBN 9783896804532 .
• Maria Hippius-Dürckheim (Ed.): The collective and the individual. Departure and path of becoming a person; Seminar recording from April 24, 1985. Maria Hippius. Nordländer, Todtmoos-Rütte 2010, ISBN 978-3-937845-26-5 .
• Gerhard M. Walch and Maria Hippius-Dürckheim (eds.): Changes in consciousness. Erich Neumann's depth psychology of culture. Gerhard M. Walch. With two seminar papers together with Maria Hippius-Countess Dürckheim. Opus Magnum, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-939322-20-7 .

literature

• Rüdiger Müller: Change to Wholeness. Initiatic therapy according to Karlfried Graf Dürckheim and Maria Hippius. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau [etc.] 1981, ISBN 9783451194207 .
• Gisela Schoeller: healing from the source. Practice d. Initiate. Therapy according to Karlfried Graf Dürckheim a. Maria Hippius. Kösel, Munich 1983.
• Pieter Loomans (Ed.): Opus magnum. Gradation of the incarnation; Festschrift in honor of the 80th birthday of Maria Hippius-Dürckheim. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3170112139 .
• Pieter Loomans: Hippius, Maria Theresie [Countess Dürckheim] . In: Personal Lexicon of Psychotherapy 2005, Part 8, pp. 216–217, doi : 10.1007 / 3-211-29396-5_121
• Hans-Christian Harten, Uwe Neirich, Matthias Schwerendt: Racial hygiene as an educational ideology of the Third Reich. Bio-bibliographical manual . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-05-004094-3 .
• Thomas Gerd doctor (ed.): Platonic Academy. A homage to Maria Hippius- Countess Dürckheim. ed. by Thomas doctor. Ed. board Friedrich Gaede; Bruno Müller-Oerlinghausen. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8260-4547-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Maria Hippius Countess Dürckheim in the catalog of the German National Library
• Existential-psychological educational and meeting place Todtmoos-Rütte