Ruth Cohn

Ruth Charlotte Cohn ( born August 27, 1912 in Berlin, † January 30, 2010 in Dusseldorf ) was the founder of Theme-Centered Interaction (TCI ) and one of the most influential representatives of the humanistic and psychodynamic psychology.

Life and work

Ruth C. Cohn was born as the second child of assimilated Jewish family and grew Hirschfeld strict upbringing, but well cared for, in middle-class family on. Her father was a banker, her mother came from a merchant family in Mainz. 1931/1932 she studied economics and psychology at the University of Heidelberg and the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin. After the " seizure of power" of the Nazis in 1933 and after oppressive and frightening experience with this system they fled from Berlin to Zurich, where she studied psychology and was trained by Medard Boss to a qualification recognized by the Swiss Society for Psychoanalysis Psychoanalyst. In addition, she studied pedagogy, theology, literature and philosophy at the University of Zurich.

In 1941 she emigrated to the United States. Here she learned in 1941 and 1942 was initially trained in Early Childhood Progressive Education at Bank Street School ( later College) in New York City and drove the same 1941-1944 psychotherapeutic studies, in particular to the work of Harry Stack Sullivan at the William Alanson White Institute in New York and at Columbia University, where she graduated with a Master's Degree ( MA), and as a psychologist.

Then she ran a private psychotherapy practice in New York City and moved away, not least through training in group therapy for pioneers like Asya Kadis, Sandy Flower man and Alexander Wolf increasingly from classical psychoanalysis through to experience therapy. Meanwhile, Cohn was ( National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis ) also involved in the construction of the NPAP and worked in the early 1960 for the first time in commercial enterprises with TCI. She made 1965-1966 additional training in Gestalt Therapy with Fritz Perls and founded in 1966 in New York and in Switzerland in 1972, the Workshop Institute for Living -Learning ( WILL ), the Institute of Education, research and practice of TCI (Theme Centered Interaction, TCI).

"From psychoanalysis to the Theme-Centered Interaction " was the title of her first book and at the same time the title of her professional life's work. In 1974 she returned to Europe and had their residence until 2002 Hasliberg- Goldern ( Switzerland ), where she ran a free practice and as a teacher of TCI and to 1998 as a consultant for the College in the Ecole d' Humanité in Hasliberg- Goldern active had. It was here that her autobiographical embossed book " Living History of psychotherapy " had contributed to the her late colleague Alfred Farau ( 1904-1972 ).

They then lived until her death in Dusseldorf and was buried on 6 February in Langenfeld near Dusseldorf. For her 100th birthday, a memorial plaque was unveiled on 27 August 2012 in the Mommsenstrasse 55 (Berlin- Charlottenburg). Ruth Cohn lived in this house until 1933.

Teaching activities Ruth Cohn

Awards

Writings

  • From psychoanalysis to the Theme-Centered Interaction. Klett- Cotta, Stuttgart 1975.
  • Alfred Farau: Living History of Psychotherapy. Klett- Cotta, Stuttgart 1984.
  • It's about proportion enterprises: prospects for the development of personality in the society of the new millennium. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1989.
  • Christina Terfurth (ed.): Living teaching and learning. Klett- Cotta, Stuttgart 1993.
  • Irene Klein: make large groups with themes centered interaction. One way to vibrant balance between individual and group tasks. Grünewald, Mainz 1993.

Papers

  • To give little is theft, give too much is murder! (Interview by Otto heart). In: concerns: education. Vol 14 (1981 ), H. 1, pp. 22-27.
  • Peepholes - The life story of TCI and Ruth Cohn. In: group dynamics. Vol 25, H. 4 ( December 1994 ), pp. 345-370.
  • The concept of resistance in the Theme-Centered Interaction. From the psychoanalytic concept of resistance via the TCI concept of disturbance in the recognition of a society therapy. In: Hilarion Petzold: Resistance. A controversial concept in psychotherapy. Junfermann, Paderborn 1981, pp. 255-282.
  • Friedemann Schulz von Thun: We are politicians and politicians - all of us! Dialogue in: Rüdiger stand Hardt, Cornelia Löhmer (ed.): free to act. Socio-political perspectives of TCI group work. Matthias - Grünewald -Verlag, Mainz, 1994, pp. 30-62.
  • With Paul Matzdorf: theme-centered interaction. In: Raymond J. Corsini: Handbook of psychotherapy. Weinheim, Basel 1983.
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