Raoul Schindler

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Raoul Schindler (born March 11, 1923 in Vienna ; † May 15, 2014 ) was an Austrian psychotherapist , psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who specializes in family therapy, group therapy and psychotherapy for psychotics. He developed a basic interaction model of group dynamic rank dynamics, which is referred to as the rank dynamic position model (1957). In Austria, Schindler's group dynamic approach in group therapy is recognized as an independent psychotherapeutic method.

Visions and foundations

Although he worked in the traditional ambience of the City of Vienna's Psychiatric Hospital from 1963 to 1988, Schindler is now regarded as a pioneer of the Viennese psychiatric reform . From 1961 on, he set up the psychohygiene department at the Vienna Health Department (today the City of Vienna's Psychosocial Service) and headed it until 1988, anchored psychotherapy in the inpatient area , encouraged by Maxwell Jones , and finally integrated relatives and follow-up care into the treatment of psychotic people.

In 1959, together with the psychoanalyst Hans Strotzka , Traugott Lindner and others, he founded the Austrian Working Group for Group Therapy and Group Dynamics (ÖAGG), a training and research facility in the field of group work. Today the ÖAGG has regional sections throughout Austria and specialist sections for group dynamics, group psychoanalysis , dynamic group psychotherapy , psychodrama , gestalt therapy and systemic family therapy .

In 1967 he founded the Alpbach training seminars, which examine the formation and decay mechanisms of large groups with a very experimental character and make them tangible.

In 1965 he founded the company Pro mente Infirmis (today pro mente Vienna ), originally a lay aid organization for aftercare for mentally ill people.

Together with Pakesch, Alfred Pritz , Erwin Ringel , Solms, Spiel, Hans Strotzka and others, Schindler finally merged Austria's scientifically active psychotherapy associations into one umbrella organization, which finally prepared and achieved the Austrian Psychotherapy Act in 1990.

Honors

Publications

  • Basic principles of psychodynamics in the group. In: Psyche . Volume 11, No. 5, 1957, pp. 308-314
  • Sociodynamics of the infirmary. In: Journal for Diagnostic Psychology and Personality Research. Volume 5, 1957, pp. 227-236
  • Results and successes of group psychotherapy with schizophrenics according to the methods of the Vienna Clinic. In: Wiener Zeitschrift für Nervenheilkunde and its border areas. Volume 15, 1958, pp. 250-261
  • About the mutual influence of the content of the conversation, group position and ego form in analytic group therapy. In: Psyche. Volume 14, No. 6, 1960, pp. 382-392
  • Family therapy in an open group as part of a family counseling center. In: JL Moreno (Ed.): The International Handbook of Group Psychotherapy. Philosophical Library, New York 1966, pp. 217-224
  • What does group experience teach us to understand the psychodynamics of schizophrenic psychoses? In: Group Psychotherapy and Group Dynamics . Volume 1, 1968, pp. 41-50
  • The relationship between sociometry and hierarchy dynamics. In: Group Psychotherapy and Group Dynamics. Volume 3, 1969, pp. 31-37
  • Bifocal family therapy. In: Horst-Eberhard Richter , Hans Strotzka , Jürg Willi (eds.): Family and mental illness. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1976, pp. 216-235
  • The living structure of the group. Selected writings . Edited by Christina Spaller, Konrad Wirnschimmel, Andrea Tippe, Judith Lamatsch, Ursula Margreiter, Ingrid Krafft-Ebbing and Michael Ertl. Vienna, Psychosozial Verlag 2016. ISBN 978-3-8379-2514-2

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personal data
SURNAME Schindler, Raoul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian psychotherapist
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 2014