Byron Katie

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Byron Katie (2006)

Byron Katie (Byron Kathleen Mitchell, born December 6, 1942 as Byron Kathleen Reid in Breckenridge , Texas ) is an American teacher, bestselling author , best known as the founder of The Work method .

Life

Katie grew up in Southern California . As a successful businesswoman and mother of three children, she later lived in Barstow , also in California.

From the mid-1970s she suffered from severe psychological problems ( alcoholism , depression , food addiction , nicotine and drug addiction, violence) and was in therapeutic treatment. Since 1986 she has developed the method The Work out of her own crisis , which she conveys on lecture and workshop trips in many countries.

Byron Katie is married to Stephen Mitchell, pastor, writer, and translator and lives in Ojai , California .

The work

The Work is a method that consists of four standard questions related to the belief ( Belief ) of the mentally sufferer. These are:

  1. Is that true?
  2. Can you know with absolute certainty that this is true?
  3. How do you react (what happens inside you) when you believe this thought?
  4. Who would you be without the thought

Byron Katie usually supports the third question with additional questions such as:

  • Describe the physical sensations that arise when you have this thought.
  • How do you treat yourself and other people when you have this thought?

The Work is not understood as a separate psychotherapy direction, but as a supplement to various psychotherapeutic methods.

The Work can be used independently of other methods (including for self-examination) - by any person, any age, any origin and any type of suffering or life story. It is used as a method for checking one's own thoughts and thoughts, and the (subjective) inner truth can be more clearly understood from simple questions. For Moritz Boerner , The Work shows parallels to rational-emotive behavioral therapy (see phase disputation).

reception

Cf. ABCDE model in rational-emotive therapy according to Albert Ellis

Users of the method point to the simplicity of the method, critics criticize it and that apart from the questions mentioned above, no techniques are included. The psychologist Heike Dierbach also criticizes that the use of the method can lead to alienation from the environment if every statement and every feeling is questioned. Die Welt writes: "The Work" lures with the promise of salvation that all problems - including cancer and sexual abuse - will vanish into thin air if we just reprogram our thoughts. Although this has nothing to do with science, participants still receive the university certificate "Systemic Coach" from a Berlin private university. "It is a" teaching with sectarian approaches ".

The name "The Work" has been protected as a brand name in the USA since 2000 and in Germany since 2008. Byron Katie herself perceives the method as a discovery rather than an invention, so does not derive any copyright from it.

Works

  • Love what is - How four questions can change your life . With Stephen Mitchell. Goldmann, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-442-33650-3
  • I need your love - is that right? Finding love without looking for it . With Michael Katz. Goldmann, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-442-33743-7
  • Byron Katie on work and money . Goldmann, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-442-33768-2
  • Byron Katie on parents and children . Goldmann, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-442-33772-0
  • Byron Katie on health, sickness and death . Goldmann, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-442-33771-2
  • Byron Katie on love, sex and relationships . Goldmann, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-442-33770-4
  • Byron Katie on Self-Realization . Goldmann, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-442-33769-0
  • A thousand names for joy - living in harmony with the Tao . Goldmann, Munich 2007, ISBN 3-442-33791-7
  • Who would I be without my drama? Conflict resolution with "The Work" . Goldmann, Munich 2009, ISBN 3442218853
  • Tiger-Tiger, is it true? Four questions that will make you smile again . (Children's book: 36 months - 6 years with Hans Wilhelm). Palaysia, Gronau 2010, ISBN 3981175271

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Grünbaum.ch , accessed on May 6, 2012
  2. ↑ Instructions for the 4 questions (PDF; 204 kB)
  3. ↑ The Work - worksheet (PDF; 111 kB)
  4. ↑ a b c d moritzboerner.de , accessed May 6, 2012
  5. ↑ Walter Liniger (as an example), accessed on May 6, 2012
  6. ↑ See Heike Dierbach: Die Seelenpfuscher. Pseudo therapies that make you sick. rororo, 2009.
  7. ↑ Education: The coaching seal is an expensive sample with no value , Die Welt, March 15, 2014
  8. ↑ 'The Work' by Byron Katie caused lively discussions: Teaching 'with sectarian approaches'
personal data
SURNAME Katie, Byron
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mitchell, Byron Kathleen (real name); Rolle, Byron Kathleen (name from first marriage); Reid, Byron Kathleen (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American life coach
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Breckenridge , Texas