Psychoanalytical-interactional method
The psychoanalytical-interactional method ( PIM ) is a form of psychotherapeutic work originally used in groups and then also in individual therapies . It is particularly suitable for people with disorders in their social relationships , with so-called “structural” disorders (often diagnosed as personality disorders), addiction disorders and for people in acute crises. It was conceptualized as one of the methods of the “ Göttingen Model of Group Psychotherapy ” ( Annelise Heigl-Evers and Franz Heigl ) in the 1970s and has been continuously developed since then.
application
In PIM, relationships that arise in groups or in relationships between patient and psychotherapist are understood using psychoanalytic and developmental psychological concepts. The therapists give interpersonal feedback as an "answering" counterpart. The method is also used outside the therapeutic area in order to more precisely perceive, understand and deal with interpersonal relationships. The procedure is suitable for treating patients with so-called structural disorders. These include narcissistic and borderline personality disorders, prepsychotic disorders, psychosomatic illnesses, trauma-related disorders, as well as dependency and addiction disorders. Modifications of the PIM are used in socio-educational work with violent and delinquent people. Treatment with PIM pays special attention to disturbances in personality development and the current relationship structure of patients, not to unconscious conflicts.
The method has proven itself in the inpatient area and for advice in crisis situations. It is also used in individual therapy for the treatment of adults, adolescents and children and in social work. This creates a diverse area of application in various therapeutic and social therapeutic fields in psychiatry and psychotherapy, in the therapy of addicts, in social therapeutic institutions, in forensic psychiatry, in therapeutic departments in the penal system and others.
Role of the therapist
A characteristic of PIM is the active attitude of the therapist, who gives the patient as a counterpart feedback from his / her perspective (“answers”). It reflects its subjective experience in coordination with the patient and, as far as it serves the patient's development, reveals it in a therapeutically targeted and selective manner. With his interventions, he takes up the patient's procedural relational knowledge, with which he regulates interpersonal interactions and shapes his interpersonal relationships.
further education
Further training in the field of PIM is aimed at medical and psychological psychotherapists, social workers and pedagogues, qualified and special pedagogues and other professional groups who are involved in therapeutic practice or who are interested in working with groups.
literature
- Annelise Heigl-Evers, Franz Heigl: The Göttingen model of the application of psychoanalysis in groups with special consideration of the psychoanalytical-interactional method . In: Group Psychotherapy and Group Dynamics. Vol. 30 (1994), pp. 1-29.
- Annelise Heigl-Evers, Franz Heigl: The interactional principle in individual and group psychotherapy . In: Journal for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy. Vol. 29 (1983), pp. 1-14.
- Annelise Heigl-Evers, Franz Heigl: Group therapy: interactional - depth psychologically based (analytically oriented) - psychoanalytical . In: Group Psychotherapy and Group Dynamics. Vol. 7, Issue 2 (October 1973), pp. 132-157.
- Hermann Staats, Andreas Dally, Thomas Bolm (eds.): Group psychotherapy and group analysis: a text and learning book . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-647-40230-7 .
- Ulrich Streeck, Falk Leichsenring: Manual of psychoanalytical-interactional therapy: Treatment of patients with structural disorders and severe personality disorders . 3rd, revised and expanded edition 2015. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-525-40246-7 .
Web links
- Publications - List with further literature on the website of the group psychotherapy and group analysis