Helm Stierlin

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Helm Stierlin (12 March 1926 – 9 September 2021

University of Heidelberg.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9] Stierlin contributed significantly to the establishment and further development of systemic therapy
in Germany.

Until 1995 he was the editor of the journal Familiendynamik. His scientific writings and books were translated into twelve languages.[10][11][12]

Biography

Early life

Helm Stierlin was the oldest of three sons of the bridge-building engineer and government architect

Neckarhausen
).

His paternal grandparents are Wilhelm Stierlin, director of the

dean in Cannstatt, later Protestant abbot, is an ancestor of Helm Stierlin and the father of Georg Bernhard Bilfinger
. Stierlin's maternal grandparents are the manor owner Eduard Schöningh and his wife Elisabeth.

Helm Stierlin is married to the Swiss psychologist and family therapist Satuila Stierlin. Two daughters are descended from the marriage.[14][15]

Helm Stierlin grew up in Mannheim,

Second World War. After the Unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht on 7 May 1945, he succeeded as a 19-year-old in reaching his homeland via Prague without being captured. Helm Stierlin's younger brother Gerhard died at the age of 17 in the Second World War.[16]

Medical education

When the universities reopened their doors in 1945, Helm Stierlin enrolled for the

Psychosomatic Medicine, old hospital in Heidelberg-Bergheim[17]

Besides yet unresolved derailments of the ethical attitudes and medical practices of some professors at the medical faculties of the universities of Germany during the

National Socialism period, there were many positive research approaches and new interdisciplinary ties and connections in Heidelberg after 1945, which had been initiated in particular by the scientific approaches and research work of Viktor von Weizsäcker and Alexander Mitscherlich
.

In 1950, a chair for psychosomatic medicine was established at the University of Heidelberg, of which Viktor von Weizsäcker became the first holder. Mitscherlich, who played a major role in the establishment of the institute,[18] left Heidelberg in 1960 and moved to Frankfurt am Main, where he became the first director after the war at the newly founded Sigmund Freud Institute.

Stierlin received his doctorate in philosophy in 1950 from Karl Jaspers at the University of Heidelberg with a

Kant with Consideration of Max Weber's Concept of Science". The rapporteur was Kurt Rossmann, the co-rapporteur was Hans-Georg Gadamer
.

Five years later, Stierlin received his doctorate in

dissertation
on the subject: "The violent patient: An investigation into the attacks perpetrated by the mentally ill on doctors and nurses".

Professional career

In 1957 Helm Stierlin went to the United States. Here he worked and researched in particular about psychosomatic medicine, the psychopathology of schizophrenia, psychosis, about the process of detachment in adolescence and the most recent therapeutic experiences in family therapy with the expanding therapeutic concepts within the framework of system-theoretical approaches.

Stierlin interrupted his stay in America for one year from 1963 to 1964 in order to pursue further training at the Sanatory Bellevue in Kreuzlingen. From 1965 to 1973 he headed the Department of Family Therapy at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland. During his years in America, he was invited to guest lectureships and visiting professorships at various American universities. He also followed invitations to guest lectures and lectures in New Zealand and Australia.

During his time in the US, Stierlin got to know the most important pioneers in the field of family therapy research, including Gregory Bateson, Milton H. Erickson, Jay Haley, Margaret Mead, Salvador Minuchin, Virginia Satir and John Weakland.

In 1974 Helm Stierlin received a call to the University Clinic Heidelberg for the newly established chair Department of Psychoanalytic Basic Research and Family Therapy. He held this chair until his retirement in 1991.[19]

Stierlin familiarized his students with the interdisciplinary discourses and research results in the field of etiology and pathogenesis of schizophrenic diseases. This includes the work of

Ronald D. Laing, Alexander Mitscherlich, Harry Stack Sullivan, Norbert Wiener and Lyman Wynne
.

Stierlin succeeded in organizing interdisciplinary advanced training congresses in Heidelberg, including

interdisciplinary researchers came to exchange ideas with their colleagues and the student body through lectures and seminars. Among many other scientists, the lecturers Fritjof Capra, Heinz von Foerster, Ernst von Glasersfeld, Niklas Luhmann, Francisco Varela, Paul Watzlawick and Joseph Weizenbaum
were guests in Heidelberg.

Stierlin was co-founder of the Systemic Family Therapy Program at the Psychotherapeutic Institute Bergerhausen founded by Hans-Werner Gessmann. Since 2002 exists the Helm Stierlin Institute hsi, one of the leading training institutes for systemic therapy and consulting in Germany. Emerging from the Heidelberg School of Systemic Therapy founded by Helm Stierlin in 1975 the hsi in Haus Schmeil, a large old villa located in a park near Heidelberg Castle, has since been training experts in health care, social work, education, management consulting and other human services in the theory and practice of various systemic consulting approaches.[20][21][22]

Awards

  • 1985: Distinguished Professional Contribution to Family Therapy Award from the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.[23][24]

Literature

References

  1. ^ Nachruf von Fritz B. Simon Carl Auer Verlag, retrieved 13 September 2021.
  2. ^ Helm Stierlin – Wegbereiter der systemischen Familientherapie | Zum Tod von Helm Stierlin am 9. September 2021
  3. ^ Michael Wirsching: Helm Stierlin - Biography written at time of nomination. (english)
  4. ^ Michael Reitz: Helm Stierlin - Zeitzeuge und Pionier der systemischen Therapie. Carl Auer Verlag, Heidelberg 2014.
  5. ^ Katalog der deutschen Nationalbibliothek: Helm Stierlin
  6. ^ Tom Levold, Wolf Ritscher, Dörte Foertsch, Petra Bauer: Erkunden, erinnern, erzählen - Interviews zur Entwicklung des systemischen Ansatzes
  7. ^ Gotthard Schettler: Das Klinikum der Universität Heidelberg und seine Institute
  8. ^ Institute für psychosoziale Prävention: History of the Institute
  9. ^ Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek - Helm Stierlin
  10. ^ Prof. Dr. Helm Stierlin, Heidelberg
  11. ^ Sistemas: Lebenslauf
  12. ^ Interview mit Stierlin
  13. ^ Änderungsvorlage, philosophical dissertation 1950, archive of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, was consulted on 20 November 2013.
  14. ^ Wolf Ritscher: Helm Stierlin - My personal encounter with Helm Stierlin
  15. ^ Helm and Satu
  16. ISBN 3-89670-209-2
    , p. 200-216.
  17. ^ Clinic for General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics
  18. ^ Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg: Allgemeine Innere Medizin & Psychosomatik
  19. ^ Helm Stierlin: Abteilung für Psychoanalytische Grundlagenforschung und Familientherapie
  20. ^ Deutsche Gesellschaft für Systemische Therapie: Helm Stierlin Institut e. V. Heidelberg
  21. ^ hsi - the institute
  22. ^ Fachschaft Psychologie: Helm Stierlin Institut
  23. ^ Carl-Auer Verlag: Helm Stierlin
  24. ^ Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon

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