Stephan Becker (psychoanalyst)

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Stephan Becker (born June 26, 1949 in Lindau ; † June 2, 2019 in Hennef ) was a German psychoanalyst and author.

Becker was the son of Hellmut Becker and Antoinette Becker and grew up in Kressbronn on Lake Constance , his sister was the psychoanalyst Sophinette Becker . His wife was the Freinet educator Ulrike Becker, the headmistress of the Refik Veseli School in Berlin.

While studying psychology at the University of Tübingen , Becker made experiences with Bruno Bettelheim and Rudolf Ekstein in order to give people who seem speechless a setting in which their "symptoms" were not explained pathologically, but rather their own nature was given so much meaning that mutual speaking became possible. This approach to psychoanalytic social work, which does not start with curing an illness but with help in a bio-psycho-social emergency, was a central aspect of his work on autism with people who were only able to live in a self-referential manner due to an extremely insecure mental state. What was new about it was that, in addition to the doctors, he also included the nursing staff as therapists.

As a qualified psychologist, Becker has worked in the Tübingen child and adolescent psychiatry since 1975. He founded the Association for Psychoanalytic Social Work in Tübingen and a therapeutic facility in Rottenburg am Neckar . They were similar to Bettelheim's Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School. He also received suggestions from the supervision in child and adolescent psychiatry from Reinhart Lempp in Tübingen. He met with the emigrant Ernst Federn from the USA to share ideas. This work has been documented and reflected on since 1987 in the journal psychosozial . In the same publisher 14 publications appeared. In 1990 he completed his doctorate in Tübingen.

After 1990 he moved to Berlin to teach for a few semesters as a visiting professor at the Institute for Rehabilitation Education at the Humboldt University in Berlin . At the same time there was also an association for psychoanalytic social work , which at times also looked after street children . He also founded an institute for psychoanalytic social work and education in Rybojady ( Gmina Trzciel in Poland). After moving again to Hennef (Sieg) in 2013 , Becker ended his institutional activities, but continued to provide counseling and therapy until a week before his death despite a serious illness.

Fonts (selection)

  • Object relationship psychology and catastrophic change: for the psychoanalytic treatment of psychotic patients, Tübingen 1990 [= dissertation] ISBN 3-89295-544-1
  • with Reinhart Lempp (ed.): Adolescence: biological, socio-educational and youth psychiatric aspects , Huber 1981 ISBN 978-3-456-81052-2

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Single receipts

  1. ↑ Obituary notice
  2. ↑ Michael Maas: The prophet in his own country. In: psychosocial. 2014, accessed October 5, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Becker, Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychotherapist and author
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Lindau in Lake Constance
DATE OF DEATH 2nd June 2019
Place of death Hennef