Tilmann Moser

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Tilmann Moser (born July 29, 1938 in Villingen ) is a German psychoanalyst , body psychotherapist and author of specialist and popular science as well as fiction books.

Career

After attending a humanistic grammar school , Moser studied literature , political science and sociology at the universities in Tübingen , Berlin, Paris , Frankfurt am Main and Gießen . For his final doctorate he wrote a dissertation on the subject of juvenile delinquency and its theoretical explanation, which was later published in book form. Moser then completed a journalistic training in Stuttgart and was finally trained as a psychoanalyst at the Frankfurt Sigmund Freud Institute . As part of a lectureship from 1969 to 1978 at the Law Faculty of Frankfurt University, he tried to introduce psychoanalysis into criminology and forensic assessment practice and criticized “repressive criminal psychiatry” and criminal sociology .

Moser has been practicing in Freiburg im Breisgau since 1978 , with the psychological late effects of dictatorship (especially the Nazi era, but also the GDR) and war, as well as repressive religion being his main focus. Through further training in other psychotherapy methods, over the course of time he expanded his initially classical psychoanalytical working method to include an analytical-body-psychotherapeutic approach.

In addition to essays, Tilmann Moser has published a large number of books, mainly on depth psychological topics, some of which are aimed at a specialist audience and some are aimed at other interested readers. The former emerged from his legal psychology teaching activities. Most of the later titles deal with methodological aspects and experiences from his therapeutic work. Others devote themselves primarily to the depth psychological consideration and interpretation of fictional literature and the visual arts , of social developments and of religion. Above all, his autobiographical, religiously critical book God Poisoning (1976) caused a sensation. Most recently, he was also active as a political and novelist.

In his book Confessions of a Half-Healed Soul , published in 2004, Moser describes how he went through various therapies for many years because of his own depression , including treatment with psychotropic drugs . These experiences were also the trigger for treading new paths as a therapist.

Innovative psychotherapeutic method

Moser's analytical therapy includes the body in the psychoanalytic process if necessary. The procedure is based on classical Freudian psychoanalysis, i.e. the purely verbal analysis and working through neurotic disorders. If necessary, he traces the roots of the disorder in the therapeutic process into the early pre-verbal phases of life (the first and second years of life ), which are not directly accessible to linguistic expression, and also refers to the handling of these by means of sensitive and careful touching or holding Body into therapeutic work. These methods, which he first experienced on his own body as helpful and healing and for whose professional use “a long body therapeutic self-awareness ” and “additional training in various forms of body [psycho] and gestalt therapy ” were necessary, “led to a deepening of the therapeutic process, since in this way the pre-linguistic organized disorders in the unconscious body memories became accessible ”. Moser was influenced by the American psychotherapist Albert Pesso , whose basic work he translated into German and with whom he published together. In his innovative way of working, Moser explicitly does not refer to Wilhelm Reich , who is often referred to as the “father of body psychotherapy”.

reception

Moser's methodological innovations aroused controversy and his "expansion of the analytical setting led to decades of struggle with the therapeutic-institutionalized community of psychoanalysis and the orthodox- oriented colleagues". Moser's colleague Konstanze Zinnecker-Mallmann describes him as a “rebel of psychoanalysis” and judges: “His role in psychoanalysis is and remains controversial, his reform program is resented, he has to put up with the question of the role of the unconscious in analytical body psychotherapy . ”He sympathized with Sandor Ferenczi ,“ his role model, which was also viewed critically ”. He cites like-minded colleagues from different countries, but consciously assumes his role as an outsider. He had " enriched psychoanalysis by dealing with the body on the couch ".

Fonts

  • Juvenile delinquency and social structure: On the relationship between sociological, psychological and psychoanalytic theories of crime. Dissertation, University of Giessen 1969, DNB 482486414 .
    • Book edition: Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1970. New edition: Fischer Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1972, ISBN 3-436-01557-1 and more often.
  • Repressive criminal psychiatry. Of the misery of a science. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1971, ISBN 3-518-10419-5 .
  • As editor: Psychoanalysis and Justice. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1971/1974, ISBN 3-518-06667-6 .
  • Years of apprenticeship on the couch. Fragments of my psychoanalysis. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1974. 9th edition 1993, ISBN 3-518-36852-4 . (Also translated into Italian, American English, French, Spanish, and Croatian.)
  • God poisoning . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1976, ISBN 3-518-37033-2 and more. (Also translated into Dutch, Norwegian, Italian and French.)
  • Understand, judge, condemn. Psychoanalytic group dynamics with law students. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1977, ISBN 3-518-10880-8 .
  • Grammar of feelings. Conjectures about the first years of life. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 3-518-03655-6 .
  • Levels of proximity. A lesson for lovers. 1981, ISBN 3-518-03656-4 .
  • Family war. How Christof, Vroni and Annette experience the separation of their parents. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 3-518-03657-2 .
  • An almost normal family. About theater and group therapy . 1984, ISBN 3-518-11223-6 .
  • Compass of the soul. A guide for psychotherapy patients. 1984, ISBN 3-518-04701-9 .
  • Novels as medical histories. About Handke , Meckel and Martin Walser . 1985, ISBN 3-518-11304-6 .
  • The first year. A psychoanalytic treatment. With an afterword by Niklaus Roth. 1986, ISBN 3-518-03072-8 .
  • The psychoanalyst as a speaking dummy. A polemic. 1987, ISBN 3-518-11404-2 .
  • Body Therapy Fantasies: Reconsidering Psychoanalytic Case Stories. 1989, ISBN 3-518-40197-1 .
  • The divided self. Reports, essays, reviews. 1990, ISBN 3-518-38233-0 .
  • With Albert Pesso: Structures of the Unconscious. Minutes and comments. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1991. New edition: Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-518-39336-7 .
  • Beware of touch: about sexualization, division , Nazi legacy and Stasi fear. (Collection of articles) 1992.
  • Book of hours. Body Psychotherapy Protocols. 1992, ISBN 3-518-40491-1 .
  • Visits to brothers and sisters. Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-518-11686-X .
  • The mother's savior on the way to herself. Body psychotherapy. 1993, ISBN 3-518-40557-8 .
  • Politics and the underground. Articles and lectures. 1993, ISBN 3-518-38758-8 .
  • Literary criticism as a witch hunt. Ulla Berkéwicz and her novel “Angels are black and white”. A polemic. Piper, 1994, ISBN 3-492-11918-2 .
  • Oedipus in panic and triumph. A body psychotherapy. 1994, ISBN 3-518-40647-7 .
  • Demonic figures. The return of the Third Reich in psychotherapy. 1996, ISBN 3-518-40763-5 .
  • But I was his dearest child: psychotherapy with the daughter of an SS man. 1997.
  • Mother's Cross and Witch Child. A conscience-building in the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-518-41042-3 .
  • Touch on the couch. Forms of analytical body psychotherapy. Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-518-39765-6 .
  • From God Poisoning to a Tolerable God - Psychoanalytic Reflections on Religion. Kreuz Verlag, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-7831-2318-6 .
  • Confessions of a Half-Healed Soul: Psychotherapeutic Memories. Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-518-41645-6 .
  • Psychotherapy on sick note. Reports and diagnoses. Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-608-89003-3 . (New edition Gießen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8379-2462-6 )
  • Supervision as a role play. Annotated examples from psychotherapeutic practice. Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-608-89043-3 .
  • The cruel god and his servant. A psychoanalytic body psychotherapy. Giessen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8379-2087-1 .
  • Art and psyche. Pictures as a mirror of the soul. Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-7630-2572-5 . (New edition 2014, ISBN 978-3-7630-2671-5 .)
  • God on the couch. News on the relationship between psychoanalysis and religion. Gütersloher Publishing House, Gütersloh 2011, ISBN 978-3-579-06572-4 .
  • Art and psyche. Family relationships. Belser Verlag, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-7630-2617-3 .
  • Money, Greed & Fraud. How Our Trust Is Abused - Considerations of a Psychoanalyst. Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-86099-888-5 .
  • With Hartmut P .: Father, Mother, God and War. Hatred, contempt and betrayal in psychoanalytic treatment. Giessen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8379-2166-3 .
  • Readings by a psychoanalyst. Novels as medical histories. Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8379-2286-8 . (In this volume “[Moser] examines novels by Wilhelm Genazino , Elfriede Jelinek , Philip Roth , Fred Uhlman , Charlotte Roche and the play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett for their depth psychological content”.)
  • Antje Stocker: Lost closeness, tragic strangeness. The late work in a psychoanalytic interpretation. Modo Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 2013, ISBN 978-3-86833-127-1 . (In this book, "[Moser] interprets selected works of painterly creativity with depth psychological means" by the Staufen contemporary witness, teacher, child analyst and artist Antje Stocker, who was born in 1933. )
  • Grandmothers, mothers and daughters. Psychoanalytic and body therapeutic case histories. Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-95558-114-5 .
  • Clinical notebook. Psychotherapeutic case histories. Giessen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8379-2486-2 .
  • Small political texts. Giessen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8379-2565-4 .
  • An attempt at love. Poems in prose. Geistkirch-Verlag, Saarbrücken 2017, ISBN 978-3-946036-63-0 .
  • The messiah plot. A satirical novel. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2017, ISBN 978-3-7431-1457-9 .
  • Verbal - Preverbal - Averbal: Psychotherapy at the language limit. Brandes & Apsel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2018, ISBN 978-3-95558-235-7 (case study collection).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tilmann Moser munzinger.de
  2. ^ Tilmann Moser: Biographical note. In: Politics and the underground. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 1993.
  3. ↑ This way of working is carried out in technical articles and in various of his books: systematically in touch on the couch. Forms of Analytical Body Psychotherapy (2001), as well as in a number of titles depicting the long-term treatment of individual patients, starting with The First Year. A psychoanalytic treatment (1986) up to the case study collection on psychotherapy at the language border (2018). / See the list of publications.
  4. ↑ a b Tilmann Moser celebrates his 80th birthday psychosozial-verlag.de, 2018.
  5. ↑ Dramaturgy of the Unconscious: An Introduction to Psychomotor Therapy. (Series: Concepts of Human Sciences. ) Translated and introduced by Tilmann Moser. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-608-95422-8 .
  6. ↑ a b See Konstanze Zinnecker-Mallmann: Review of Moser's book Verbal - Preverbal - Averbal: Psychotherapy at the Language Boundary , published in Deutsches Ärzteblatt in October 2018.
  7. ^ According to the publisher's report on the book, quoted from the text in the catalog of the German National Library, accessed on April 13, 2019.
  8. ^ According to the publisher's report on the book, quoted from the text in the catalog of the German National Library, accessed on April 13, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Moser, Tilmann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychoanalyst, body psychotherapist and author
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Villingen