Phyllis Krystal

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Phyllis Krystal (born May 11, 1914 in London , † December 10, 2016 in Guildford , England) was a freelance lecturer and psychotherapist .

The Phyllis-Krystal method she developed was presented and further developed by her in several books.

biography

Phyllis Krystal was born in London in 1914 but spent most of her adult life in Los Angeles . She graduated from Bishop Otter College , the predecessor of today's University of Chichester . She then taught at secondary schools for three years. She married the American Sidney Krystal and moved to live with him in Los Angeles. The couple had two daughters. Krystal had been widowed since 1993. In order to meet the great interest in her work in Europe, she moved to Munich in 2004 . From 2008 she lived in Switzerland near Zurich . Phyllis Krystal died on December 10, 2016 at the age of 102 in Guildford (England).

Her books, written in English, have been translated into German and other languages.

The Phyllis Krystal Method

The "Phyllis Krystal-method" is a method of mental hygiene , the one that appeals to people itself determines want to do something for themselves; the therapist takes on the role of a facilitator . Many of the method's instruments can be applied independently and used when necessary. The use of these instruments is described in the workbook "Letting Go - The Handbook". The instruction by a facilitator helps you learn and use the symbols . Support from a trained facilitator is particularly recommended when working with the "break your inner fetters" procedure.

The "Phyllis-Krystal-Method" is based on a work related to the active imagination according to Carl Gustav Jung and the autogenic training according to Johannes Heinrich Schultz with simple symbols that are used in a specific way. The procedure is similar to the process of a guided meditation . When using the symbols and procedures, the aim is to activate harmonizing or transforming impulses in the unconscious in order to increase personal autonomy and authenticity . According to Krystal, the unconscious is divided into two areas. One is to a certain extent below normal waking consciousness and contains all memories and experiences, in particular all innate and learned or acquired behavioral patterns. The other part of the unconscious lies figuratively speaking above normal waking consciousness and is researched by transpersonal psychology , among other things , or is the subject of religious speculation.

The exploration of the upper part of the unconscious is also the subject of a demand from Viktor Frankl , who, in addition to a depth psychology for exploring the unconscious, demands a "height psychology" which explores the upper regions of human consciousness. Experiences in this area include Sat-Chit-Ananda in Hinduism and Nirvana in Buddhism . A real "height psychology" in the sense of Frankl has not yet been developed. Therefore an important prerequisite for the scientific criticism of the "Phyllis Krystal Method" is missing. Because this method is actively aimed at this upper instance of one's own self , which is also addressed as an "inner healer", "inner teacher" or "higher self". In the "Phyllis-Krystal-Method" this instance has the name HiC (as short for English: higher consciousness ; German: higher consciousness ) and is also circumscribed as the true or actual self .

The "Phyllis-Krystal-Method" sees itself as a pragmatic method and therefore starts with everyday questions and everyday problems. A central concern of the method is the provision of a contemporary puberty ritual , with which internal ties to the behavioral patterns of parents (or legal guardians) continued from childhood can be neutralized for one's own experience as an adult or adolescent . This part of the work is based on the insight that people often also replicate behaviors as adults that they developed as children in interaction with their parents. In contrast to young animals, Krystal emphasizes, human children can also oppose the patterns of their parents and thereby also develop fixed behavior patterns. Since the parents are usually no longer decisive for the adult, the continued effect of the pattern can lead to the experience of a restriction from which one would like to free oneself - in a subsequent or timely puberty ritual. The "Phyllis-Krystal-Method" serves this purpose with the procedure "Breaking the inner fetters". The central position of this procedure, which is used not only as a puberty ritual but also after divorces or separations, led to the title of the first book, which is fundamental for the presentation of the method: "Breaking the inner fetters: Liberation from false securities".

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SURNAME Krystal, Phyllis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English psychotherapist, freelance lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 2016
Place of death Guildford , England