Katathym Imaginative Psychotherapy : Textbook of Working with Imaginations in Psychodynamic Psychotherapies
In this book, Dr. Bahrke and Dr. Nohr introduce psychotherapists and psychoanalysts to how they can work with Katathym Imaginative Psychotherapy (KIP) at the current level of psychodynamic knowledge. The method is a method of psychodynamic psychotherapy introduced by Hanscarl Leuner in 1955 under the name “Katathymes Bilderleben” and further developed since then. The authors clearly show the state of the art in case studies and in a systematic presentation.
About the method:
How does KIP work? The therapeutic practice is based on the inclusion of imaginations in the therapy process. Unconscious desires, conflicts, their defense as well as the transference relationship are thus symbolically illustrated. The imaginations stimulated and accompanied by the therapist are a valuable supplement to the psychodynamic process of understanding and, in addition to conversation, open up an affect-related, motivation-promoting access route in the treatment of many disturbance patterns in short and long-term therapies. In contrast to other psychotherapy methods that use imaginations, imaginations in KIP are understood as a component of relational work, taking transference and resistance into account.
Written for .
Psychodynamically working psychotherapists, psychiatrists and psychoanalysts who work with imaginations, as well as all colleagues interested in figurative language, metaphors and dreams.
Избранные страницы
The Case of Musat
The Case of Grün
The Case of Eichel
7 Systematic Presentation of Working with Therapeutic Imaginations
8 Application Spectrum and Training Organization
9 Imagination in Art and Intellectual Life
References
Dr medical habil. Ulrich Bahrke, psychoanalyst (DPV/IPA) and training analyst (DGPT), specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy (FMH) in private practice in Zurich. Specialist in psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy, specialist in neurology/psychiatry, 1991-2007 senior physician at the Clinic and Polyclinic for Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, 2001-2009 chairman of the Central German Institute for Psychoanalysis Halle (MIP), 2007 – 2021 active at the Sigmund Freud Institute Frankfurt, from 2010 – 2015 head of the Institute’s Outpatient Clinic and clinical director of the LAC Depression Study. 2009 habilitation, 2009/2010 substitute professorship and longstanding private lectureship at the Institute for Psychoanalysis of the Department of Education/Human Sciences of the University of Kassel. Lecturer and former board member of the “Mitteldeutsche Gesellschaft für Katathymes Bilderleben” (MGKB) and lecturer of the “Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Katathymes Bilderleben” (AGKB), teaching the method, for example, as a former co-organizer of the Berlin training seminar of the “Deutsche Gesellschaft für Katathym Imaginative Psychotherapie” (DGKIP) and at the Lindau Psychotherapy Weeks.
Dr. phil. Karin Nohr, studied literature, didactic-methodical training of student teachers, and studied psychology. She is a graduate psychologist, doctorate in a music-psychological subject, a psychological psychotherapist and psychoanalyst in private practice, until 2016 she was board member of the German Society for Psychoanalysis and Music (DGPM), which she co-founded in 2007, and since 2012 has been a freelance writer (publication of five novels 2012, 2013, 2017, 1918, 2020). Since 1988, she has been a lecturer at the Association for Katathymic Image Experience and Imaginative Procedures in Psychotherapy (AGKB, now DGKIP), and has been teaching the method since 2006, among other things, as co-organizer of the annual Berlin training seminar of the German Association for Katathymic Imaginative Psychotherapy (DGKIP) and at the German Psychologists’ Academy.
The Studio – van Gogh Flowers
Good morning! I hope you all watched the introductory video for The Studio’s – Digital Learning. This blog will be the 1st on your Daily Activity sheet, so please join me and my children in creating our first art project – van Gogh Flowers.
First, let me tell you a little bit about Vincent van Gogh. Vincent van Gogh was born March 30, 1853 in the Netherlands (Happy ALMOST birthday van Gogh!). He was a Post – Impressionist painter. Post Impressionism had highly personal meanings and symbolism. It also rejected the depiction of the observed world by connecting with viewers on a deeper level through memories and emotions.
The internally tortured van Gogh threw his soul in each of his paintings. He conveyed his emotional and spiritual state through visible brushstrokes and an opulent, bright canvas of color. His paintings show a strong bond between nature and man; using a beautiful marriage of blues, oranges, greens, yellows. Brilliant and radiant strokes of paint dance across each painting. The rhythm of the colors and shape portray movement and evoke emotion. His gestural and impulsive application of paint became a prominent aspect of subsequent art movements such as Abstract Expressionism and Fauvism. He once said, “real painters do not paint things as they are. they paint them as they themselves feel them to be”.
Van Gogh lived a short, depressing life, but created over 900 paintings and 1,100 drawing and sketches, producing masterpieces such as Starry Night, Fourteen Sunflowers in a Vase, and Cafe Terrace at Night. He was not successful as an artist during his lifetime, only selling one painting. However, he is now one of the most popular artists of all time, with his paintings posted on prints, bags, billboards, commercials, tv shows, books, etc.
Next, let’s talk a little about our color choices. You can observe complimentary color choices within van Gogh’s paintings. Complimentary colors are colors that are across each other on the Color Wheel – red/green, blue/orange, yellow/purple. The colors, when placed around or next to each other compliment one another, making them pop and emphasize the beauty of the color. Portraying our rendition of van Gogh’s flowers in a vase, we can use complimentary colors to make the flowers and vase POP! and create a soothing color palette to the eye.
In the video, I explain a little about the colors and the preliminary steps to the project. If you are completing this project with a younger child, drawing the vase my be beneficial to the overall project. If you are creating this as an older child, be creative with your vase and flowers, coming up with different shapes for the petals, adding foliage around the flowers, creating a depth to the vase so the flowers look as if they are coming out of the vase.
Then, for the fun part! You can create a piece with just one set of complimentary colors, or you can choose to do all the pairs of complimentary colors. Either way, remember, this is your picture! Make it your own. That’s what gives it a unique, creative project. If you have different shades and tints of the colors you choose, be free to create layers of each color. This is a lovely project to bring color to this rainy day!
If you would like to watch the video on our beginning process, please click on van Gogh Flowers.
