Erste Erfahrungen mit der operativen Fallanalyse aus der Sicht des Revisionsrichters

Criminal investigative case analysis is a method for identifying the perpetrator of a crime based on an analysis of the nature of the offence and the manner in which it was committed. Various aspects of the criminal’s personality makeup are determined from the choices before, during and after the crime. In German criminal procedural law it is a new investigative tool in preliminary proceedings to give the prosecutor extensive assistance to the police to profile unknown criminal subjects or offenders and to supply more evidence. The Federal High Court has decided that police officers who use this method are not expert witnesses whose evidence can be challenged in the main proceedings by the state attorney.     

Einige Erfahrungen mit hoch- und niederfrequenten Settings

In this very private account about my psychoanalytic career I draw some consequences concerning the long and widely discussed questions of the setting. Especially, I refer to my many years of experience I was able to gain in the framework of focal conferences.     

Die Ambivalenz mit der Therapieforschung

Due to a presently growing demand for evidence-based medicine different psychotherapeutic methods are facing increasing political pressure to demonstrate their efficacy. The realization of evaluative projects is not only in need of study patients but also of study therapists. Although many psychoanalysts support the general need for research the number of actual participants is rather low. In this paper the motives of psychoanalysts to decide for or against participation in evaluative research were investigated. Guided interviews were conducted with six psychoanalysts working in outpatient practice. The results support the hypothesis that in particular the need for security and protection influence a psychoanalyst willingness by causing either a driving or inhibition force. Both the intraindividual and interindividual areas of the interviews displayed unresolved ambivalences towards participation in psychotherapy research. It was concluded that changes in psychoanalytic training could have the most profound influence on the personal motivation to participate.     

Versuche mit der waagrechten strecke-punkt-figur

The straight line-dot-illusion with horizontally extending figure was ascertained experimentally and explored under several conditions. In the case of binocular perception two “external” and one “internal” factors were found influencing the intensity of the illusion. Observations with right eye and left eye respectively proved themselves to be unequal. The previous interpretations of optical illusions failed to provide a satisfactory explanation of the straight line-dot-illusion. A new explaining assumption was considered.     

Alltag mit der Depression des Partners

Objective. Clinical research on the quality of interpersonal relationships in individuals with unipolar depression supports the idea that the family plays a major role in the development and the course of major depression. In order to further explore how family functioning relates to unipolar depression, the authors examined changes in family functioning as viewed by the patients' spouses. Methods. Interview data from 54 spouses of patients with unipolar depression were analysed as part of the baseline assessment of a study on the economic and health burden experienced by families with mentally ill relatives. Results. Having a family member with a current major depressive disorder is a general stressor for families and has implications for the health and well-being of the patient's spouse. Depressive symptoms affect a wide range of aspects of marriage and family life and result in a process of adaptation and transformation of the patient's family. Thus, in assessing burden experienced by spouses particular attention should be paid both to the social environments and to different aspects of the relationship as perceived by the patient's spouse in order to further understand the factors mediating the interaction between major depression and family functioning.     

Die Wiederherstellung der Zeit in der ambulanten Psychotherapie mit Psychosekranken

In psychoanalytic psychotherapy with psychotic patients, a disturbance in time experience quite frequently turns out to be central to the psychotic experience as a whole. These patients experience disruptions in the flow of time that lead to a loss of temporal continuity. This loss of temporal structures causes damage in thinking functions: Relations like causality, finality and others which imply a temporal dimension, cannot be established any more. Parts of treatment histories serve to demonstrate the reconstruction of temporal continuity by the patient in psychotherapy. Object-relation-theory and Piaget’s experimental psychology provide the frame of reference for the understandig of the mental processes involved. At the beginning of the psychotherapy the patient experiences being together with the therapist and being separated from him as two discrete conditions of existing which have no links. The periodical reappearance of being together in combination with the awareness of the therapist’s continuous ongoing care encourages the patient to remember and to envisage the meetings with the therapist. The reliability of the alternation seems to stimulate a specific mental activity which creates connections allowing for transitions between the different conditions — in the sense of Winnicott’s transitional phenomena. Transitional phenomena which sometimes are quite concrete things bridge the gap between presence and future. Narrating serves as a link to the past. Through these creative ego-activities temporal continuity is regained providing the basis for strucured thinking and — very important — for the perception of one’s own personality and its continuity over time, thus generating a sense of identity. This process of reconstructing time is interesting in itself, because it sheds light on the psychodynamics of the restitutional processes after a psychotic illness. Moreover, it allows for hypotheses about the development of the inner time dimension in early childhood.     

Formalisierung der einheitswissenschaft mit dimensionsbegriffen von variabler Exaktheit

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Umgang mit Paarbeziehungen in der psychodynamisch orientierten Einzeltherapie

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瑞士特色的伦理学问题

本文基于作者在苏黎世大学伦理学中心学术访问期间的观察,研究分析了以死亡辅助和银行保密制为代表的具有瑞士特色的伦理学问题,并从某种角度展示了应用伦理学在瑞士的发展图景。     

Fluctuating maximal God

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion - This paper explores a variety of perfect being theism that combines Yujin Nagasawa’s maximal God thesis with the view that God is not...     

Über die Messung der psychischen Ermüdung mit Hilfe des Flimmertests

Ohne ZusammenfassungErklärung der Abkürzungen Add.-Lstg. Additionsleistung - AZ Arbeitszeit - B/sec Anzahl der Blitze je Sekundes - KP Kurzpause - Lstg. Leistung - M Mittelwert (arithm. Mittel) - TZ Teilzeit - Vfr. Verschmelzungsfrequenz = Flimmergrenze - VL Versuchsleiter - Vp. Versuchsperson - Vpn. Versuchspersonen - Mittlere Abweichung vom Mittelwert - M Mittlerer Fehler des Mittelwertes     

Telemedizin als effizientes Werkzeug in der Konsultation von Menschen mit Alkoholabhängigkeit

psychopraxis. neuropraxis - Zur Sicherstellung der Kontinuität der Versorgung suchtkranker Patienten zwischen dem ambulanten und stationären Sektor wurde ein Pilotprojekt der Telemedizin...