Marianne Fuchs (therapist)

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Marianne Fuchs , née Krämer , (born November 4, 1908 in Bopfingen ; † March 11, 2010 in Düsseldorf ) was the founder of the depth psychology- based body psychotherapy method of functional relaxation .

Life

Since childhood, Marianne Fuchs was interested in movement and creativity, autonomy and freedom of the body. She began training as a gymnastics teacher in 1926 , which today is comparable to the job description of a movement therapist with additional training in curative education. She learned from Dorothee Günther , Carl Orff and Thekla Malmberg. In April 1931 she married the historian Walther Peter Fuchs (1905–1997), with whom she had three children.

In 1928 she graduated and began to work at the Institute for Physical Education at the University of Marburg . She also worked as a freelancer at the Psychiatric University Clinic with Ernst Kretschmer and Friedrich Mauz . From 1936 she worked at the Heidelberg University Clinic , of which Richard Siebeck was the director at the time . Shortly before, Marianne Fuchs had found a way to heal her little son, who had severe spastic bronchitis , with the help of her hands and empathizing with his disturbed breathing rhythm. She described this procedure as "slipping into the vegetative unconscious". This is considered to be the birth of functional relaxation, which was initially called "breathing rhythmic relaxation". She outlines the functional relaxation in the preface to her book 1975: "At the center of the method is the role of the body, with which the human being experiences, suffers, behaves and realizes existence. For functional relaxation, this is most incorruptible in the breathing rhythm of the individual in his being in motion and letting himself be moved. "

In 1946 Viktor von Weizsäcker , one of the founders of psychosomatic medicine in Germany, returned to Heidelberg. In the following years, with him and Richard Siebeck, against the background of anthropological medicine, she developed the theoretical foundations of functional relaxation. At the beginning of the nineties, the concept of 'subjective anatomy' was developed in a working group with the psychosomatic specialist Thure von Uexküll . Functional relaxation was recognized and accepted as a treatment method within psychosomatic medicine in Germany. Numerous clinical studies prove the effectiveness of functional relaxation in bronchial asthma, irritable bowel syndrome, somatoform heart problems, dental fear and in stress prevention.

Marianne Fuchs was honorary chairwoman of the Working Group on Functional Relaxation (AFE) and most recently lived in Erlangen and Düsseldorf. In 1998 she received the Federal Cross of Merit . She was still actively interested until shortly before her death and celebrated her 100th birthday in 2008 during a ceremony during the AFE autumn conference in Rothenburg odT

Fonts

  • Functional relaxation . 6th edition, Stuttgart 1997
  • Marianne Fuchs and G. Elschenbroich (eds.): Functional relaxation in child psychotherapy . 2nd expanded edition, Munich 1996
  • Fuchs, Uexküll, Müller-Braunschweig, Johnen (ed.): Subjective anatomy . Theory and practice of body-related psychotherapy. Schattauer. Stuttgart (1994)

literature

  • Working group for functional relaxation: Marianne Fuchs: It no longer breathes - an obituary , published in: Mitteilungen der Viktor von Weizsäcker Gesellschaft, No. 25 (2010), responsible for the Heinz Schott section , pp. 616–617, Marianne Fuchs obituary
  • Hadassa K. Moscovici: "Dancing for joy, half to pieces for sorrow. Pioneers of body therapy" Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Frankfurt am Main 1989. Second revised. and exp. Edition Bacopa Verlag, Schiedlberg / Austria 2005
  • Miegel, Renate: "Festschrift for the 100th birthday of Marianne Fuchs: selected contributions from AFE Intern from the 20th century", Erlangen, 2008

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ [Fuchs M .: "Functional relaxation in child therapy" Munich, Basel: Reinhardt 1985.]
  2. ^ [Marianne Fuchs: "Functional relaxation" 7th revised edition, Berlin 2013]
  3. ↑ [Uexküll, Fuchs, Müller-Braunschweig, Johnen: "Subjective anatomy - theory and practice of body-related psychotherapy." Stuttgart, New York, 1994]
  4. ↑ [1]
  5. ^ [Miegel, Renate: "Festschrift for the 100th birthday of Marianne Fuchs: selected contributions from AFE Intern from the 20th century." Erlangen, 2008 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Fuchs, Marianne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krämer, Marianne (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and author, founder of the depth psychological body psychotherapy, functional relaxation
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Bopfingen
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 2010
Place of death Dusseldorf