Psychosocial Publishing House

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The psycho-social-Verlag is a German book and magazine publishing. He publishes psychological and social science books and magazines. The focus is on the areas of psychoanalysis , psychotherapy , depth psychology , psychosomatics , family therapy and the connection between psychological and social science issues. The seat is in Giessen . The owners and managing directors are Hans-Jürgen Wirth and Trin Haland-Wirth. Around 200 new publications are published annually. In 2002, Hans-Jürgen Wirth and Trin Haland-Wirth founded the Haland & Wirth publishing house as the imprint publishing house of Psychosozial-Verlag. The list of available books is almost 2000 titles.

history

The publishing house was founded in 1993 by Hans-Jürgen Wirth . The foundation of the publishing house emerged from the journal psychosozial , which was founded in 1978 by Horst-Eberhard Richter . It was published from 1978 to 1985 by Rowohlt-Verlag , from 1986 to 1992 by Beltz-Verlag and has been published since 1993 by Psychosozial-Verlag, which was founded especially for this magazine. The publishing program was later greatly expanded.

At the beginning of 2018, Trin Halan-Wirth left the management and left her shares to their son Johann Wirth.

Goal setting

The publisher has set itself the goal of revitalizing the dialogue between the “Psycho” and the “Socio” sciences and between the various helping professions.

Book series

As of 2019, 24 book series will be published, including “Library of Psychoanalysis”, “Psyche and Society”, “Edition Psychosozial”, “Imago”, “Psychoanalytical Pedagogy”, “ Contributions to Sexual Research ” and “Research Psychosocial”. These book series contain both generally understandable books for readers who are interested in scientifically sound and comprehensibly presented explanations on psychological and sociological issues, as well as books and specialist journals that are primarily aimed at a specialized audience.

The same applies to special series that are available for different subject areas, such as more than 130 titles on psychoanalytic cultural theory or numerous titles on the main topics of society, culture, education and family-related topics.

Magazines

The publishing house is next to the magazine "psychosocial" ten other journals in the intersection of psychoanalysis, social criticism , cultural theory , education, art and Supervision out such. B. Journal for Psychology , Free Association and Psychoanalysis in Contradiction .

Haland & Wirth in Psychosozial-Verlag

In spring 2003 Psychosozial-Verlag took over the program focus from Bleicher-Verlag, which deals with the topics of culture of remembrance , Judaica, the Holocaust and Israel. This resulted in the imprint publishing house "Haland & Wirth im Psychosozial-Verlag", which Trin Haland-Wirth runs together with Hans-Jürgen Wirth.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Psychosozial-Verlag titles from AZ. . Retrieved August 9, 2019
  2. Generation change initiated at Psychosozial-Verlag. Johann Wirth becomes a partner. Börsenblatt from January 24, 2018. Accessed August 9, 2018
  3. ^ Book series. Retrieved August 9, 2019 .
  4. Psychoanalytic culture theory. Retrieved August 9, 2019 .
  5. Magazines in Psychosozial-Verlag . Retrieved August 9, 2019