Michael Lukas Moeller

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Michael Lukas Moeller (front, 2nd from left) next to Enno von Denffer (left) 1979

Michael Lukas Moeller (born May 26, 1937 in Hamburg ; † July 7, 2002 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German psychotherapist , university professor and non-fiction author .

Life

Moeller - son of an industrialist - studied medicine and philosophy at the universities of Hamburg , Munich and Berlin . He received his doctorate in 1967 from the Free University of Berlin. The subject of his dissertation was the psychodynamics of test anxiety. After training as a psychoanalyst , Moeller completed his habilitation in 1970 at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen, specializing in psychotherapy and psychosomatic medicine . There he was appointed professor of mental hygiene in 1973. In 1983 Moeller was appointed to the Chair of Medical Psychology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , where he taught until his death in 2002.

An organic condition with a high level of malignancy prompted Moeller towards the end of the 1980s to switch his diet to raw food instinctotherapy according to the teachings of Guy Claude Burger . He summarized his positive experiences in the book Health is edible , which was published in 1989. Later Moeller gradually moved away from this strict, potentially socially isolating diet. He had already anticipated the possibility of an unorthodox, relaxed interpretation of Burger in his book by giving it benevolent appreciation.

Services

Self help

Michael Lukas Moeller has made a special contribution to the self-help groups . In the 1970s he dealt with the phenomenon that exchanging ideas and mutual advice between people who have the same problem can help to solve the problem. He can be considered the most important founder of the new self-help group movement in Germany. The German Working Group on Self-Help Groups, which he co-founded, and its project, the National Contact Point for Self-Help Groups (NAKOS) in Berlin, have contributed in the following years to the self-help groups becoming an accepted part of the health system. The work of these groups will a. financially supported by the statutory health insurances .

Dialogue

Moeller has developed a self-help method for couples , which he called essential dialogue and which the training provider Dyalog (for dialogue of the dyad ) disseminated . The method is based on a mixture of psychoanalytic insights into couple dynamics with rules from self-help groups. Couples and counselors can be trained in dialogue skills. After separating from his wife, Moeller spread the method through decentralized large-scale seminars with his partner Célia Maria Fatia (* 1962) for many years. After Moeller's death, Fatia continued the seminars for a while.

Awards

Fonts

  • Support groups. Self-treatment and self-knowledge in independent small groups . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1978, ISBN 3-498-04259-9 .
    • New edition: self-help groups. Instructions and backgrounds. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-499-19987-4 .
  • Help differently. Support groups and professionals work together . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-129-05591-6 .
  • Love is the child of freedom . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-498-04298-X .
  • Health is edible. A doctor invites you to eat naturally and free yourself from cooking. Goldmann, Munich 1989
  • The truth begins with two people. The couple in conversation. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-498-04320-X .
    • New edition: The truth begins with two people. The couple in conversation. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-499-26384-X .
  • The session begins with two people. A German-German dialogue. With Hans-Joachim Maaz . Rowohlt, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-87134-027-8 .
  • The war, the lust, the peace, the power . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1992, ISBN 3-499-13175-7 .
  • Words of love. Erotic dialogues. An elixir for couples . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-498-04368-4 .
  • Opportunity makes love. Conditions of happiness in the partnership . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-498-04473-7 .
  • How love begins The first three minutes . Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-499-61639-4 .

literature

  • Karl Werner Daum: Michael Lukas Moeller - Some personal memories. In: 30 years of GRAS group analysis seminars. Festschrift, Giessen 2007.
  • Jürgen Matzat: Michael Lukas Moeller - The self-help pope. In: C. Krause-Girth (Ed.): The group, the couple and love. Giessen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89806-586-3 .
  • Marita Weerts-Eden: The Dialogue - the smallest self-help group in the world. In: Self-help group yearbook 2010. Gießen 2010 ( PDF; 473 kB ).
  • Moeller, Michael Lukas. In: German Biographical Encyclopedia . 2nd edition. Vol. 7 (2007), p. 143 ( online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Lukas Moeller: Self-help groups. Self-treatment and self-knowledge in independent small groups . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1978, third cover page.
personal data
SURNAME Moeller, Michael Lukas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychotherapist, university professor and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 2002
Place of death Frankfurt am Main