Ulrich Giesekus

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Ulrich Giesekus in 2011

Ulrich Giesekus (born March 23, 1957 in Leverkusen ) is a German psychologist , lecturer and professor of psychology and counseling .

Life

After doing alternative service in the psychiatric ward of a rehabilitation clinic , Giesekus first studied engineering and psychology, but dropped out of engineering studies. From 1978 to 1988 he lived in the USA , where he first studied psychology at the University of Delaware and then practiced psychotherapy . In 1983 he received his Master of Education in College Counseling and Student Administration, in 1988 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on Attributional Style and Empathic Relating in Co-dependent Personalities with William C. Coulson at the United States International University San Diego (today: Alliant International University San Diego ) to Ph.D. in psychology.

From 1988 to 1997 Giesekus was the director of studies for the German Society for Biblical Therapeutic Pastoral Care (DGBTS). Between 1997 and 2000 he was the therapeutic director of the counseling and therapy center of the Foundation Ev. Recreation home Freudenstadt and active as a guest lecturer at the Friedensau University of Applied Sciences. Since 1988 he has been training counselors and pastors . In 2000 he founded the company BeratungenPlus , which orientates its counseling and psychotherapy to the image of man in the Bible , and works as a clinical psychologist in private practice. From 2007 to 2011 he was visiting lecturer at the theological seminar of the Liebenzeller Mission . Since 2011 he has been working as a lecturer for human sciences , course director for MA Systemic Consulting and MA Integrative Consulting and has a professorship for psychology and counseling at the Liebenzell International University and since 2000 as a lecturer for marriage and couple pastoral care at the Elstal Theological Seminar (FH).

He is on the advisory board of the Academy for Psychotherapy and Pastoral Care (APS), member of the Working Group of Protestant Entrepreneurs (AEU), member of the Lausanne international committee for world evangelization "Christian Care and Counsel as Mission" and member of the American Association of Christian Counselors ( AACC ).

Private

Giesekus is married and has four children.

Publications

as a co-author
  • with Andreas Malessa : You can't have to forgive. Live on when something unforgivable happens. Brunnen Verlag, Gießen 2005, 5th edition 2007, ISBN 978-3-765513527 .
  • with Andreas Malessa: Men are easy. ... but it's not easy for them. Brunnen Verlag, Giessen 2006, 5th edition 2007, ISBN 978-3-7655-1398-5 (translation into Polish 2010).
  • with Sandra Schmid and Alexander Fix: Before it crashes. Make kids strong against violence. SCM R. Brockhaus, Witten 2008, 2nd edition 2010, ISBN 978-3-4172-6279-7 .
  • with Rebecca Geil and Anna-Birgit Haigis: Patchwork-Kids. Hänssler Verlag , Holzgerlingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-7751-5378-2 .
as co-editor
  • with Bradford M. Smith and Jürgen Schuster : Global Mental Health and the Church (Series: Interkulturalität & Religion: Liebenzeller Impulse Zu Mission, Kultur und Religion, Volume 4), LIT Verlag, Münster 2017, ISBN 978-3-643-90854- 4 .
Articles (selection)
  • ... that's how I'll cut your head in: Violence from a psychological point of view, in: Zeitschrift anruf, 3/1992, Kassel 1992, pp. 12–15.
  • Codependency: Going along - caught up - hung up ?!, in: Steps, 5/95, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1995, pp. 11–15.
  • Marriage is a worldly thing…, in: Mission and Path 1/96, Kassel 1996, pp. 9–11.
  • Systemic approaches in churches and communities, in: Michael Dieterich (Hrsg.): The human being in the community. Stuttgart 1997, pp. 145-178.
  • Alcohol and drug addicts, in: Stepan, Thomas (Ed.): Between blue light, body and soul. Psychology in Emergency Medicine: Basics of Emergency Medical Psychology. Verlag Stumpf & Kossendey, Edewecht, 1997, ISBN 978-3-923124862 .
  • Why teen parents shouldn't be perfect, in: family, issue 4/2001, Witten 2001, p. 56 ff.
  • Postmodern Family - A Case for the Red List of Endangered Species? Our image of “normal” families and the new confusion, in: smd transparent 02, Marburg 2007, pp. 5-7.
  • Too little is too much. Underchallenge as a stress factor, in: Psychotherapie und Seelsorge, Issue 3/2007, pp. 14-17.
  • Christian counseling and pastoral care worldwide, in: Psychotherapie und Seelsorge, Issue 4/2007, pp. 60–61.
  • Theology and Psychology - Who Rules, Who Serves? Interview with the psychologist and theologian John Townsend, in: Psychotherapie und Seelsorge, Issue 1/2010, Witten 2010, pp. 42–45.
  • Christian denominations: healing togetherness or risk factor ?, in: Jürgen Armbruster (Ed.): Spirituality and mental health. Psychiatrie Verlag, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-88414-551-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Giesekus: Vita , ihl.eu, accessed on March 27, 2019.
  2. ↑ Giesekus on the page of Theol. Seminars Elstal ( Memento from February 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), theologisches-seminar-elstal.de
  3. ↑ APS , akademieps.de, accessed on February 13, 2015.
  4. ↑ AEU
  5. ↑ Giesekus: Vita , giesekus.de, accessed on February 13, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Giesekus, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist and professor of psychology and counseling
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Leverkusen