Synergetic Therapy

The synergetic therapy is an alternative medical procedure , which in Germany from medical and psychotherapy can be exerted preformed persons (psychotherapist medical practitioner). Due to the highest court rulings , the methods may not be practiced by laypeople in Germany. The range of therapies is aimed at people with all types of illnesses , including severe chronic illnesses, although there is no scientific evidence of its effectiveness.

background

From the point of view of its representatives, synergetic therapy is based on the principles of self-organization . The basis is synergetics (= doctrine of cooperation). The synergetics was founded by the physicist and mathematician Hermann Haken . In his laser theory, Haken discovered a self-organization principle, which he formulated mathematically. In the 1950s, the idea of ​​self-organization also appeared in brain research . Analogous to technology, the human brain is understood as a complex network system. The neurobiologist Humberto Maturana z. B. considers the perception of the brain to be self-organizing - new relationships are constantly being established within the neural network.

The physics engineer and former BKA employee Bernd Joschko transferred the principles of synergetic pattern recognition to the “inner images” that occur in deep relaxation and founded the synergetic therapy. The roots of synergetic therapy go back to Joschko's engineering work in 1975, where he applied "evolutionary bionic principles" and the self-organization principle. From this he developed a concept that he called psychobionics . Joschko's hypothesis states that self-organization processes can be triggered in one's own psyche that are supposed to have a healing effect. To do this, it is necessary to change a so-called energy image structure, ie patterns of inner, imagined images.

All memory and symbol images (Joschko speaks of neuro world here ) should be in constant interaction and form patterns . For example childhood memories, symbolic and so-called reincarnation images, images from a collective pool and a morphogenetic field postulated by Sheldrake . There are pathogenic patterns that can be found according to the rules of pattern recognition found by Haken, namely in a free-running associative search process. This is called profiling . From the point of view of synergetic therapy, such an inner world trip without a given topic always includes self-awareness and thus an increase in life skills and can therefore lead to unspecific self-healing. That is why Joschko calls these inner world journeys "instructions for self-healing". Two professions emerged: the synergetic therapist and the synergetic profiler.

application

In synergetic therapy, blindfolded, the client listens to relaxing music from an audio tape. In an appropriate environment, an attempt is made to achieve a deep state of relaxation. The client should then visually descend a staircase, enter a room through a door, describe visual impressions and conduct a kind of dialogue with them (so - called free- running synergetic search process ). Then conflicts and memories should be addressed with the therapist in order to uncover pathogenic "information structures" allegedly anchored in the brain of the sick person. A change in these "information structures" by the client then leads to self-healing processes ( structural tipping ). The therapist intervenes to help by offering the client suggestions for internal change work and provoking them with figures (inner parents) and symbolic images (e.g. the image of the “inner lion”).

According to its proponents, synergetic therapy should be a bionic healing method and not a medical disease treatment. This is not in contradiction to the medical art of healing. However, this delimitation is legally assessed differently in Germany than in Switzerland, for example. Due to administrative court case law ( OVG Lower Saxony, judgments of June 18, 2009 Az. 8 LC 6/07 and 8 LC 9/07; BVerwG , judgment of August 26, 2010 Az. 3 C 28/09) is exercising in Germany the synergetic therapy, as well as the so-called profiles, are only allowed to doctors , psychological psychotherapists and alternative practitioners .

criticism

There are no clinical studies on the effectiveness of synergetic therapy. Despite the above limitation, therapists also turn to people suffering from serious illnesses such as cancer , AIDS or MS . Joschko's theory has not found recognition in specialist circles. The practical approach of this form of therapy is somewhat similar to modern hypnotic therapy methods (awake and self-deciding patients, no instructions from therapists) according to Erickson and others

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Federal Administrative Court, judgment of August 26, 2010, Az .: 3 C 28.09.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. bverwg.de, accessed on October 20, 2013.  

Web links

• Advertising rights for the synergetic method Brief report by Harald Herrmann on behalf of the professional association of synergetic therapists
• On the legal situation in the district of Goslar (also contains brief information on the course of a therapy session)
• Berner, Barbara: Synergetic method and permit for alternative practitioners . In: Dtsch. Doctor bl. No. 107 (50) , 2010, pp. A-2530 ( article ).
• BVerwG, judgment of August 26, 2010 - 3 C 28.09 [ECLI: DE: BVerwG: 2010: 260810U3C28.09.0]

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