Shmuel Erlich

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Shmuel Erlich (2012)

H. Shmuel Erlich (born July 11, 1937 in Frankfurt / M. ) Is an Israeli psychoanalyst , organizational consultant and psychologist in clinical psychology. Since 1990 he has been professor of the Sigmund Freud Chair at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem . In 2005 he retired . Erlich is one of the spiritual fathers of the Nazareth conferences .

Career

In view of the growing threat to the German-Jewish family during the Nazi era , his parents left the Nazi state at the end of 1938, almost two years after his birth, and emigrated to Palestine with their son . They arrived there in early 1939. Shmuel Erlich grew up in Tel Aviv until 1954 . From 1954 to 1971 he lived in the USA . During this time he completed his studies in psychology. He then returned to Israel , where he has lived in Jerusalem ever since . He speaks German, English and Hebrew.

The Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge

Erlich studied psychology at the City College of New York (CCNY), where he received his bachelor's degree in 1959 . In 1965 he received his PhD in clinical psychology from New York University (NYU). From 1965 to 1967 he received a postgraduate scholarship from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) , which enabled him to conduct research in clinical psychology at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts . In 1971 he was awarded a certificate by the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP) that identified him as one of the best in his field. In the same year he was certified as a supervisor for psychotherapy and psychodiagnostics by the Israel Psychological Association . In 1972 he became a lecturer in clinical psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . In 1983 he completed his training as a psychoanalyst at the Israel Institute for Psychoanalysis . With this, he first achieved simple membership in the Israel Psychoanalytic Society (IPS) and in 1985 became a so-called full member . He has been a training analyst there since 1987 . In 1985 he was a founding member of OFEK , the Israeli Association for the Study of Groups and Organizational Processes . After Eric Miller chaired the first two OFEC conferences , Erlich was director of the subsequent four. From 1993 to 1997 he was chairman of the training committee of the psychoanalytic institute and of the professional society in Israel. From 1999 to 2002 he was President of the IPS .

Eitanim Psychiatric Hospital in Jerusalem

In 2000 Erlich took over the chairmanship of a working group in the European Psychoanalytic Federation (EPF) , which he held until 2006. This working group deals with the relationship between psychoanalytic knowledge and inner experience and its connection to external reality. In 2003 he was elected regional representative for Europe of the newly constituted Board of Representatives of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) and held this office until 2015. From 2005 to 2011 he was chairman of the training committee in the IPV. In 2010 he wrote the “Letter from Jerusalem” for the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis as part of an initiative of the journal, with which various psychoanalytic societies were able to present themselves to an international specialist audience. As a co-founder of the Nazareth conferences , he has been a member of the so-called staff there since 1994, as well as in the subsequent conferences under the leadership of the Partners in Confronting Collective Atrocities (PCCA) . In 2012 Erlich was director of the first European conference of the PCCA , which took place at Kliczków Castle in Poland under the title European perpetrators and victims - then and now . The second European conference took place in 2014 and a third in 2016.

In addition to his academic career, Erlich was a senior psychologist at the Eitanim Psychiatric Hospital near Jerusalem. There he set up a station for young people, which he directed for fifteen years.

Erlich is an honorary member of the German Psychoanalytical Association (DPV).

Act

The main focus of Erlich's scientific interest and work is psychoanalytic theory and its applications, including psychotherapy and the exploration of identity. In particular, he deals with the effects of external trauma - especially in connection with terrorist attacks - as well as researching group and organizational processes.

Organizational advice

With his organizational consulting, Erlich wants to help organizations gain a deeper understanding of themselves, their structures and power relationships, become aware of the role of possible corruption, recognize regressive processes and gain a changing influence on all these phenomena. He is convinced that this applies to any organization, including psychoanalytic training institutes, which occasionally call him as a supervisor , including in Germany .

Groups in conflict

Erlich pays particular attention to conflicts in which members of different national groups are entangled with one another. In order to research them, he uses the method of so-called group relationship conferences, modeled on the Leicester conferences , which were developed at the Tavistock Institute in London. The aim of such conferences is to help develop the ability of the individual participants to take on responsibility in various social roles . Erlich feels committed to this goal to this day and organizes conferences for various groups in conflict or is involved in their organization.

According to Erlich, these group relationship conferences are intended to close the gap that usually exists between looking at one's own inner world - i.e. experience, fantasies and the like - and the outer world of reality. To achieve this goal, a psychoanalytic and a systemic approach are combined and the conferences create a place for conscious experience of the previously perceived role and the possible development of a new one. The aim is to understand enmity as something that not only arises from experiencing external reality, but is also constituted by internal reality. With his method, he wants to encourage learning to think even in emotionally charged situations and to gain a deeper understanding of how social and political events affect the mind and soul of people. Edward R. Shapiro rates Erlich's efforts in his review:

“When we look at the world around us, we can become really frightened. But our fears come from our minds, our bodies, and our developmental histories. So how do we know when we are afraid that we are accurately grasping reality? H. Shmuel Erlich's brilliant effort to link what is in our minds with our outer world perceptions opens the possibility of a more complex engagement in our lives. Using the tools of psychoanalysis and social systems theory, he brings us from the intimacies of the consulting room to the Gulf War, the paranoid organization, the mind of the terrorist, the corrupt social system. He illuminates the fluid boundaries between external and internal reality . How do we move from the experience of an enemy we must destroy to one we believe we might talk with? How does the commitment to something larger than the self contribute to the creation of terrorists? These are not trivial questions. This fascinating book is relevant to all those who take the risk of living fully in our chaotic social world. "

“When we look at the world around us, we can get really scared. But our fears come from our heads, our bodies and our development history. So how do we know when we are afraid that we are grasping the exact reality? H. Shmuel Erlich's brilliant endeavor is to connect what is in our heads with what we perceive in our outer world, and this opens up the possibility of more complex engagement in our lives. Using the tools of psychoanalysis and the theory of social systems, he takes us from the intimacies of the consulting room to the Gulf War, to a paranoid organization, to the spirit of the terrorist, to the corrupt social system. He illuminates the fluid boundaries between external and internal reality. From the experience of an enemy we must destroy, how can we move towards someone we believe we can speak to? How does commitment to something larger than self contribute to the creation of terrorists? These are not trivial questions. This fascinating book is relevant for everyone who takes the risk of life in our chaotic social world. "

- Edward R. Shapiro, MD, former Medical Director / CEO, Austen Riggs Center; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Yale Child Study Center : International Psychoanalytic Association

Psychoanalysis

In his psychoanalytical work, Erlich first devoted himself to researching the inner soul experience of young people and later dealt with processes of experience processing in detail.

Teenagers

After setting up the adolescent unit at Eitanim Psychiatric Hospital , Erlich stayed there for fifteen years. This gave him the opportunity to deal with the experience qualities of young people and adolescents . For example, he was concerned with the “role of denial in adolescence”. He suggests “looking at the developmental crisis of adolescence through the mode of action of denial”.

“In order to be able to endure and master the often extremely divergent feelings of strength, weakness and dependency with simultaneous intense regression needs, the adolescent uses the defense mechanism of denial, which can lead to divisions. An exemplary case study shows to what extent this defensive behavior can promote or disrupt further psychological development. "

- Psychosozial-Verlag : Psyche 1990

Since Erlich was not only interested in individual cases in his psychoanalytic work, but also always had an eye on how it was embedded in its environment and its political reality, he consequently describes in another study the reactions of young people to the murder of the then Israeli Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin .

Experience processing

Erlich's scientific interest focused on the question of how people process their experiences within their souls. He describes in detail what he means by experience . It is constituted by perceptions of external and internal reality as well as by the conscious and unconscious and is organized within the soul. Erlich sees the data of external reality, as people perceive it with their sense organs, at one pole and the structured experience of their inner world at the other. In between, he describes a processing process. It is both innate and “socially formed”. With its help, sensory perceptions would be continuously “absorbed, digested, assimilated and structured.” This process, which Erlich describes as “modalities of experience”, is largely beyond conscious perception and voluntary control. He significantly influences the way people shape their relationships with themselves, their fellow human beings and their environment. He describes two very different types of relationship design, which he calls modes of "being and doing" based on Winnicott . If people are in the “mode of action”, so to speak, the opposite is perceived as separate and independent, and the relationship is “causal, dominated by purpose and goal, direct and chronological”. In contrast to the mode of action, Erlich describes the mode “of being”, in which the boundaries between the self and the counterpart merge and no longer exist in the experience of a person who is in this mode. This would not only give rise to numerous conflicts in the formation of interpersonal relationships, but also considerable difficulties in dealing with losses.

Fonts

  • Denial in Adolescence. Some conflicting aspects . In: Psyche . tape 44 , no. 3 , 1990, p. 218-239 .
  • Narcissism and Object Love. On the metapsychology of experience . In: Psyche . tape 44 , no. 11 , 1990, pp. 995-1018 .
  • "The Difficult Situation of the Jews Living in Germany". An open letter . In: Psyche . tape 53 , no. 11 , 1999, p. 1188-1190 .
  • Personal reflections on the self-image and sense of identity of Germans . In: Psyche . tape 61 , no. 4 , 2007, p. 386-393 .
  • with Mira Erlich-Ginor, Hermann Beland: Satisfied with tears - poisoned with milk. The Nazareth Group Conferences Germans and Israelis - The Past Is Present . With a foreword by Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu (=  Library of Psychoanalysis ). Psychozial-Verlag, Giessen 2009, ISBN 978-3-89806-765-2 .
  • A beam of darkness - understanding the terrorist mind . In: H. Brunning, M. Perini (Ed.): Psychoanalytic Perspectives on a Turbulent World . Karnac, London 2010, p. 3-15 (English).
  • The Couch in the Marketplace: Psychoanalysis and Social Reality . Karnac, London 2013, ISBN 978-1-78220-030-7 (English).

Awards

  • 1965: Founder's Day Award from New York University
  • 1966: NY Award for Outstanding Psychology Dissertation Recognition of 1966 from the New York Society of Clinical Psychologists
  • 2005: "Sigourney Award" for outstanding contributions to psychoanalysis
  • 2016: Award for the lifetime achievement award from the Israeli Association for Psychotherapy

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Austen Riggs Center in the English language Wikipedia
  2. ↑ in German: full member. At that time the IPS still had two different types of membership for new members.
  3. ↑ with one interruption from 2007 to 2011
  4. ↑ i. e. Supervisor group
  5. ↑ Eitanim on the English Wikipedia
  6. ↑ or for seminars and lectures
  7. ↑ for example Germans and Israelis or Israelis and Palestinians

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Emeritus Shmuel Erlich. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 13, 2016 ; accessed on September 5, 2016 .
  2. ↑ H. Shmuel Erlich, Mira Erlich-Ginor, Hermann Beland: Satisfied with tears - poisoned with milk. The Nazareth Group Conferences Germans and Israelis - The Past Is Present . With a foreword by Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu (=  Library of Psychoanalysis ). Psychozial-Verlag, Giessen 2009, ISBN 978-3-89806-765-2 , p. 33 (on the publisher's website with table of contents and reviews, accessed on September 19, 2015).
  3. ^ H. Shmuel Erlich, Cognitive Controls, Drive Related Contents, and Delayed Auditory Feedback Performance . 1965 (English, dissertation).
  4. ^ Israel Psychoanalytic Society (IPS). Retrieved May 19, 2020 (English, Hebrew).
  5. ↑ OFEK - Organization Person Group - the Israeli Association for the Study of Group and Organizational Processes. Retrieved September 7, 2016 (English, Hebrew).
  6. ↑ European Psychoanalytic Federation (EPF). Retrieved September 7, 2016 (German, English, French).
  7. ↑ Erlich, H. Shmuel: Advanced Clinical Training & Experience - Psychoanalytic Training & Positions. Retrieved September 5, 2016 .
  8. ^ H. Shmuel Erlich: Letter from Jerusalem . In: International Journal of Psycho-Analysis . tape 91 , 2010, p. 1329–1335 ( org.il [PDF; accessed September 7, 2016]).
  9. ↑ Shmuel Erlich: A Letter from Jerusalem. In: IPS website. Retrieved on September 7, 2016 (announcement and link to PDF [100 kB]).
  10. ^ Partners in Confronting Collective Atrocities (PCCA). Retrieved September 5, 2016 .
  11. ↑ PCCA: VIII. European Perpetrators and Victims Then and Now. Retrieved October 8, 2016 .
  12. ^ H. Shmuel Erlich: Director's Report. 2012, accessed on September 20, 2016 .
  13. ^ H. Shmuel Erlich: Director's Report. 2014, accessed on October 8, 2016 .
  14. ^ X. A House Divided Against Itself? Identities and Cultures in Violent Conflict. PCCA, accessed October 8, 2016 .
  15. ↑ a b c d The Couch in the Marketplace: Synopsis, Reviews and Endorsements. Notes about the author. Retrieved September 7, 2016 .
  16. ↑ DPV honorary members. Retrieved October 6, 2017 .
  17. ↑ Group Relations. Retrieved September 5, 2016 .
  18. ↑ Shapiros review of the book Marketplace… by Erlich at the IPV
  19. ^ H. Shmuel Erlich: Denial in Adolescence . In: Werner Bohleber (Ed.): Adolescence and Identity . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 978-3-608-91783-3 , p. 129 .
  20. ^ Psychosozial-Verlag: Denial in adolescence. Some conflicting aspects. Preview: Psyche, 1990, 44 (3), pp. 218-239. Retrieved September 19, 2016 .
  21. ^ H. Shmuel Erlich: Adolescents' Reactions to Rabin's Assassination - A Case of Patricide? In: Psychoanalytische Blätter . tape 9 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1998, p. 8-29 (English).
  22. ^ H. Shmuel Erlich: Experience - What is it? (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: International Journal of Psychoanalysis. 2003, pp. 1125–1147 , archived from the original on February 15, 2017 ; accessed on September 13, 2016 .
  23. ↑ a b H. Shmuel Erlich: On Loneliness, Narcissism, and Intimacy. (PDF) In: American Journal of Psychoanalysis. 1998, pp. 135–162 , accessed on September 13, 2016 (English).
  24. ^ The Sigourney Award. Retrieved September 8, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Erlich, Shmuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli psychologist, psychoanalyst and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main