Theme Healing

Introductory Lectures on theme Healing

Alternative Psychiatry

Does a vibrant alternative psychiatry exist today?
What has remained of the collectives, communities and alternative clinics? Have they proved to be failures and been abandoned? Or have they failed to withstand societal pressure to conform and become pseudo-alternative assimilated institutions?
What would therefore be a contemporary true alternative to the functionalistic and reductionistic application of modern day psychiatry?

True Psychotherapy

In contrast to typical conformist psychotherapy with its goal of helping the client conform to societal norms, True Psychotherapy has the goal of freeing the client from human conditioning and thus freeing them for love.
True, profound, truth-finding psychotherapy demands a conscious working with the taboo themes in our society. True Psychotherapy seeks to awaken a truth and reality that is not based upon the historical past. Authentic direct relating and a face-the-reality approach together create a space in which healing, growth and development can take place.

Psycholytic Therapy

The psychoactive mushrooms of the genera Psilocybe, Panaeolus und Inocybe are the only 'classic' psychedelics that occur naturally in Europe – in localised sites and in sometimes large quantities. Unintended intoxication by these fungi have occurred, as witnessed in Potsdam and Leipzig. In contrast, the well known Czech psychiatrist, Milan Hausner, targeted these mushrooms for use in therapy at a time when under international pressure, Czechoslovakia became the last country to ban psycholytic therapy using LSD.
"Milan Hausner would first search for mushrooms with the patient, and then perform therapy"

Applications of True Psychotherapy – Presentations

Incest Taboo

Incest taboo concerns one of the few apparently globally valid taboos.
Even today, a distain of this taboo stretches through different cultures and forms of society with the consequence that those impacted are excluded from society and as result experience a threat to their existence.
True Psychotherapy advocates the working through of fundamentally all taboos, with the goal of developing an individual that is conscious of his own self, who can then contribute as the seed corn for a true human global community.

Community Building

The realisation that true community means healing and that is necessary for our future survival may not yet be fully within the consciousness of many people.
In her presentation, Marianne Principi will illustrate the value of community building and how it can be integrated into current psychotherapy, what main factors are required and what significance this can have for the therapeutic process. The four stages in the process of community building as described by Scott Peck will serve as foundation for the presentation.
She will examine in detail the main issues that are unavoidably encountered in a true community. The presenter will describe and analyse this organic process of community building, making reference to her own contribution in the book 'True Psychotherapy' and to the book 'Living Together' by Samuel Widmer.

Tantra

What is Tantra?
Tantra is understood in the western world as comprising the many sexual practices and rituals of those who practice tantra in India.
However, tantra in the context of True Psychotherapy has a different meaning: Tantra enables the working through of issues related to sexuality and relationship alongside providing deep insights into the self, and its goals are self knowledge, clarity in relationships, and working through and finding the truth.

Sexuality

"Hands off" demands the present day creed of psychotherapy and what is intended is a professional conduct that should prevent abuse in therapy through prohibition of any kind of touching or relationship between therapist and client. And within this conduct, the theme of sexuality should never be approached unless at the expressed wish of the client.
Is that still therapy? Does such a regulated therapeutic relationship function in the sense of healing? How does one deal with the theme of sexuality and abuse in true psychotherapy? This presentation deals with these questions through the use of examples from therapy practice and other broader approaches.

100 Years of Psychotherapy - And the world is getting worse

In order for any form of psychotherapy to become officially recognised, its effectiveness must first be scientifically demonstrated in controlled trials. By focusing on the treatment of clearly defined disorders, mainstream psychotherapy has become superficially more effective but not better. Indeed, completely the opposite has been achieved. Whilst illness and psychological disturbances are being diagnosed and treated, their origins remain untouched and their cultural aspects ignored. Psychotherapy has paid a high price in order to become recognised as a serious form of treatment. It has surrendered its intent to cure the patient.
Psychotherapy must insist upon cure and upon the individual becoming whole. Instead of adhering to the reductionist perspective of 'treatment of a disorder', it needs to make the oneness of all living things its central theme. The specific treatment of a 'disorder' will be illustrated using a clinical case vignette. How does therapy look when a fully alive relationship with reality becomes the focus of the work from the very outset?

Reports about experiences and transformation due to True Psychotherapy

Addiction

The presentation is a summary of own past experiences and represents an example of how the body, mind and soul of an addict becomes ill and how a patient supported by treatment with True Psychotherapy and Psycholytic Therapy can once again recover their lives and their capacity to take responsibility.

Jealousy

Coping with jealousy is a central theme in many relationships.
Is jealousy part of love? What hides behind jealousy? Is jealousy a neurosis? What does jealousy say about us and our capacity for committed relationship?
The presenter will use a questioning stance to examine this complex emotion using her own experience and background and will furthermore explore jealousy for its value in developing self-knowledge.

Birth

From the start point of modern day clinical midwifery, Jutta Augustin practices with a vision of promoting and strengthening 'True Midwifery'. Through exposure to 'True Psychotherapy', she has completely changed her longstanding work as a midwife. Through re-living and re-processing the experience of birth during psycholytic sessions, she has developed new awareness and new methods of working with birth anxiety. Amongst a range of other themes, she reports how she has incorporated new content into her work, how she has mastered anxiety during birth through a broader perception, and how death during pregnancy can be worked through.

Death

Dying and death have no place in our worldview and yet they are the most certain events in our lives. How are we conditioned, what sort of images and fears do we have in connection to these themes? Why is death so repressed and what effects does this have on our lives? What roles do separation and community play? And what does death mean in its spiritual dimension?
Susanne Trinkler worked as a nurse in an intensive care unit, where death was a daily occurrence and where working with death completely excluded spirituality. She later worked as an independent midwife outside of the hospital environment and in this role gained a completely new experience regarding the dimension of giving birth.