Michael Titze

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Michael Titze (born December 24, 1947 in Maribor , Slovenia ) is a German psychotherapist and psychoanalyst . Titze is one of the pioneers of therapeutic humor and gelotology .

Life

Titze studied psychology at the University of Konstanz until 1973 . In 1975 he received his doctorate from Thomas Luckmann . Then Titze worked with Wolfgang Blankenburg in inpatient psychiatry. At the same time he completed training as a psychotherapist in Alfred Adler's individual psychology school .

From 1983 to 1990 Titze was the chairman of the Scientific Commission of the International Association for Individual Psychology. During this time, impulses come from William F. Fry , the founder of humor research ( gelotology ) in the USA. This led to a collaboration between Fry and Titze, for example in the Humor & Health Institute in San Diego and in the International Humor Seminar in Edmond (Oklahoma) .

Rolf Kühn and Titze have been working together since 1985 . This cooperation resulted in a research group for philosophy and psychotherapy in Tuttlingen , in which the integration of Michel Henry's phenomenology of life into depth psychology was discussed. In 2004 the Freiburg Research Group for Life Phenomenology emerged.

Together with the Swiss psychologist Peter Hain, Titze organized a total of five congresses on the subject of humor in therapy between 1996 and 2000 at the Basel Exhibition Center . The involvement of psychologists, educators, doctors, philosophers, artists, clowns and other specialists in the congress made it possible to create various networks. From them emerged the establishment of associations dealing with therapeutic humor. Between 2001 and 2004 Titze organized the Heilsames Lachen congress in the Hospitalhof Stuttgart as well as other conferences on the subject of therapeutic humor. Titze has been the head of a seminar provider in Tuttlingen (HCDA Academy) since 2016.

His special field of research is gelotophobia . The therapeutic clown is particularly important in the humor drama.

Memberships

  • 1987: Founding member of the Vienna Society for Logotherapy and Existential Analysis
  • Founding chairman and honorary chairman of HumorCare Germany eV

Publications

Monographs

  • Healing power of humor. Therapeutic experiences with laughter. Herder, Freiburg / Basel / Vienna 1985, ISBN 3-451-08246-2
  • The healing power of laughter. Healing early shame with therapeutic humor. Kösel, Munich, 1995, ISBN 3-466-30390-7
  • Therapeutic humor. Basics and Applications. Together with Christof T. Eschenröder. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-596-12650-9
  • The humor strategy. Solve conflicts in an amazing way. Together with Inge Patsch. Kösel, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-466-30673-6
  • Treating Gelotophobia with Humordrama. In: Humor & Health Journal , XVI, No. 4, 2007, pp. 1-11
  • Laughter between joy and shame. A psychological-phenomenological analysis of gelotophobia. Together with Rolf Kühn . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8260-4328-4
  • The organization of consciousness. Strategies of typing in "normal" and schizophrenic worldview. Foreword by Rolf Kühn. Alber, Freiburg im Breisgau / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-495-48507-1

Editing

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Titze: The organization of consciousness. Strategies of typing in "normal" and schizophrenic worldview. Alber, Freiburg im Breisgau / Munich 2011, p. 15f.
  2. ↑ Freiburg Research Group for Life Phenomenology
  3. ↑ humor.ch:International Congresses on Humor 1996-2000, Messe Basel (accessed May 30, 2009)
  4. ↑ Michael Titze: Treating Gelotophobia with Humordrama. In: Humor & Health Journal , XVI, No. 4, 2007, pp. 1-11.
  5. ↑ HumorCare: founding member Michael Titze (accessed January 15, 2016)
personal data
SURNAME Titze, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychotherapist and psychoanalyst
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Maribor , Slovenia