Co-Counselling

Co - Counselling ( in U.S. English: co - counseling ) is a psychotherapy without therapists, which takes place usually in the form of self-help groups. In a short training (typically two weekends ) the basics are learned, with which users and users of the Co - Counselling should be able to support each other in therapy sessions. Besides the two large organizations Re -evaluation Counseling ( RC), based in Seattle, USA, and Co - Counselling International ( CCI), the practice of Co - Counselling is also offered by other organizations or movements, in Germany, for example, as components of group therapy FORT and MRI.

The psychological theory is based on the Co - Counselling, essentially says that although people developed unhealthy patterns of behavior, but nevertheless deceive the potential in him to break through this. Children lose in the course of their socialization their ability to spontaneous expressions of emotion. Conflicts could therefore no longer be met adequately and seize up.

There are usually co- counseling sessions for couples or to take third. One person works while supporting the other. You then change after a well-defined time so that each person gets the same amount of attention for their work. In addition there are offers of co- counseling initiatives for group meetings, supervision and depressions of the work. In Co - Counselling sessions will be trained to show their feelings, let her out, which implies that the person working sometimes uncontrollably crying, screaming loudly, embarks on mattresses or laughs. This unloading can have cathartic effects, by which is meant that henceforth behavior patterns would no longer exercised. The support person does not give advice, but help the working person, very careful going to go in their feelings. Another object of the co- Counseling is to clarify situations and to achieve " revaluation ', ie, a better understanding or other cognitive rating of a problem.

Co - Counselling was founded by the American Harvey Jackins 1957.

In the early 1970s it came to schism. From the Re -evaluation Counseling ( RC), individual Co - Counselling groups split off, which - built up the Co - Counselling International ( CCI) - primarily through the work of the British psychologist John Heron. The more hierarchically organized RC Counselling has a very political self-understanding, builds on feminist and Marxist theories and drives according to the formation of groups to self-liberation ahead. The CCI, however, places a greater emphasis on openness to a variety of therapeutic methods, is more spiritually oriented, but less politically engaged.

Techniques from the Co - Counselling is also an essential element of the Radical Therapy ( MRT, FORT ).