Ilse Burbiel

Deutsche Akademie für Psychoanalyse - Munich Training and Research Institute

Günter Ammon's biography and scientific contribution in an overview. Public file conference Paper in German.

This Paper is a re-print of the 2003 article. Aggression has been focus of psychoanalytic discussions since Sigmund Freud's formulation of the death instinct. In his therapeutic work with severely ill patients with archaic or early disturbances, Gunter Ammon had continually observed that destructive aggression can be traced back to rejection and h...

Die Bedeutung von emotionaler Resonanz für die Persönlichkeitsentwicklung in der Analytisch-Strukturellen Tanztherapie (AST) wird erörtert. Eingegangen wird dabei auf die Entwicklung und die theoretischen Grundlagen der AST, deren Ziele, das ambulante Setting sowie praktische Effekte und Wirksamkeit.

The interdisciplinary team approach in health care settings is widely recognized as an important factor in providing quality patient care. This approach is supported by a growing research evidence that demonstrates that team functioning is associated with better patient outcomes, cost savings, reduced hospitalization, improved service provision, an...

The integrative model of person-centred clinical care in dynamic psychiatry comprises interdisciplinary features and approaches. The central integrative aspect is the holistic view of a person as a unique human being, influenced by the dynamics of the surrounding groups. We present the theoretical conception of human development and the therapeutic...

Based on the pivotal process of the development of groups and identities of the dynamic psychiatry the author conceptualizes a systemically oriented theoretical framework for interdisciplinarity and names the factors which warrant or impede a constructive vibrant cooperation. The author reflects the necessary preconditions of an interdisciplinary c...

Überlegungen zur Geschichte des Begriffs "Heimat" werden angestellt. Es wird die Ansicht vertreten, dass dieser Begriff infolge der Tabuisierung und Verleugnung in Deutschland nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg, aber auch infolge der aktuellen tiefgreifenden soziokulturellen Veränderungen, besonders der weltweiten Globalisierung, einer neuen Definition bed...

Concerning the theme 'Psychotherapy between adaptation and emancipation', the authors describe some aspects of the development and structure of the Munich training and research institute of the German Academy for Psychoanalysis. Pioneers started their work with strong optimism towards overcoming the old and rigid structures of psychiatry and orthod...

Überlegungen zur Geschichte des Begriffs "Heimat" werden angestellt. Es wird die Ansicht vertreten, dass dieser Begriff infolge der Tabuisierung und Verleugnung in Deutschland nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg, aber auch infolge der aktuellen tiefgreifenden soziokulturellen Veränderungen, besonders der weltweiten Globalisierung, einer neuen Definition bed...

Günter AMMON'S Dynamic Psychiatry is and has always been a resource- oriented treatment science since its introduction in the late sixties of the last century. Based on a detailed definition of the dynamic-psychiatric term 'resources' against a background of a positively conceived idea of man, the author's approach is to present the implementation...

Integrating the resources and the healthy potential of development in psychotherapeutic treatment especially of the structurally early-disturbed patients is increasingly demanded in contemporary scientific literature. At Günter AMMON'S Berlin School of Dynamic Psychiatry, the work with the 'healthy parts of the identity' is one of the central treat...

Following a short outline of the psychoanalytic contributions as a traumatolo- gical science from its beginning, the treatment approach of the hospital Men- terschwaige is presented, an approach where mainly patients with attachment and relation disorders suffering from severe and chronic traumata, often including physical and/or sexual violence, a...

The group- dynamic view of any human development and change, both of the individual as well as of a group, is one central premise of Günter Ammon's Dynamic Psychiatry. This understanding postulates that any human being- from birth on- experiences consciously and unconsciously innumerable contacts, expectations, desires, conflicts and interactions i...

While the definition of home as a geographic area to which a specific emotional attachment develops is still common, today increasingly different spaces of life are defined as home by the respective literature. In summary, home is defined as an area actively shaped by human beings where the needs of identity, security, activity and stimulation are...

The group dynamic view of human development in the individual as well as in groups is one of the central postulates of Günter Ammon's Dynamic Psychiatry. According to this view, humans, from birth on, experiences a number of conscious and unconscious contacts, expectations, desires, conflicts and controversies in different groups, which essentially...

Anlässlich des 30-jährigen Bestehens der dynamisch-psychiatrischen Klinik Menterschwaige wird deren Entwicklung von den Anfängen bis in die Gegenwart rekonstruiert. Nach Jahren der Vorbereitung wurde die Klinik im Mai 1979 eröffnet. Von Beginn an war die Klinik als ein großgruppendynamischer, milieutherapeutischer, die gesunden und kreativen Kräfte...

Overview on Günter Ammons Life (German only)

In order to contribute to the current discussions on the understanding of health, the authors review the concept of health as presented by Günter Ammon as part of Dynamic Psychiaby. The theoretical bases for this analysis refer to three essential dimensions of Dynamic Psychiatry 'constructive aggression', 'group', and 'identity' which are part of a...

The authors have been leading a dance therapy group according to the dynamic psychiatric concept of Günter Ammon. The author's concern is to show how a so called 'committer-victim' conflict, which had been developed in a dance session, can be worked through and finally solved by means of group dynamic processes within verbal and dance therapy. Hie...

Biography of Rolf Schmidts, Clinical Director of Menterschwaige Hospital between 1979 and 2004.

Editorial of the issue on the future of inpatient psy<chotherapy

In the Berlin School of Dynamic Psychiatry, the traumatic micro- and macroexperiences conditioned by group dynamics has always been integrated into the etiology of severe psychic disorders. This integration has made it necessary to reformulate psychoanalytic concepts and expand methods of psychoanalytic treatment. Taking the etiology of traumatic c...

Aggression has been focus of psychoanalytic discussions since Sigmund Freud's formulation of the death instinct. In his therapeutic work with severely ill patients with archaic or early disturbances, Günter Ammon had continually observed that destructive aggression can be traced back to rejection and hostile communication within the primary group....

Aggression has been focus of psychoanalytic discussions since Sigmund Freud's formulation of the death instinct. In his therapeutic work with severely ill patients with archaic or early disturbances, Gunter Ammon had continually observed that destructive aggression can be traced back to rejection and hostile communication within the primary group....

Das dynamisch‑psychiatrische Konzept der archaischen Identitätsstörungen wird vorgestellt, und Folgerungen für die therapeutische Arbeit werden am Beispiel der Klinik Menterschwaige aufgezeigt. Archaische Identitätserkranungen sind Frühstörungen und Defizite im zentralen Kern der Persönlichkeit und werden auf eine Arretierung der für die Identitäts...

Es wird im Überblick über strukturelle und inhaltliche Aspekte der dynamischen Psychiatrie im Rahmen der stationären Psychotherapie von Psychosen informiert. Dabei werden die folgenden Punkte angesprochen: (1) Verständnis und Entwicklung der dynamischen Psychiatrie, (2) Krankheitsverständnis aufgrund der Vorstellung von Sozialenergie, (3) nachholen...

Objective of this study is the holistic and integrative concept of treatment as developed by Günter Ammon within the Hospital for Dynamic Psychiatry Menterschwaige Munich. Structure and process of working in the hospital reflect this concept which aims at the psychotherapeutic treatment of archaic identity diseases. The whole hospital represents mu...

Die ethischen Grundlagen der von Günter Ammon begründeten Dynamischen Psychiatrie bzw. humanstrukturellen Wissenschaft werden erörtert. Diese versteht sich als wertgebundene Wissenschaft, deren kritische Instanz und Wahrheitskriterium das ist, was dem Menschen dient. Ausgehend von einem wert- und zielorientierten Menschenbild, bei dem die Identität...

Das Humanstrukturmodell, das Persönlichkeitsmodell der Dynamischen Psychiatrie von G. Ammons, wird in seiner strukturell-systemischen, gruppendynamischen, energetischen und prozessualen Formulierung vorgestellt. Dabei wird deutlich gemacht, wie sich diese Formulierungen konsequenterweise aus den Grundstrukturen des dynamisch psychiatrischen Mensche...

Examines treatment outcomes of dynamic psychiatric inpatient psychotherapy for groups of borderline patients as the final part of the Munich Catamnestic Project. A total of 74 borderline patients completed a battery of psychological tests (Ammon's Ich-Struktur-Test, the German short version of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory by Gehr...

Die spezifische Funktion der Case-Konferenz als diagnostisches Instrument innerhalb der stationären Behandlung in der Dynamischen Psychiatrie wird im Überblick erörtert. Ausgehend von den grundlegenden theoretischen Positionen der Humanstrukturologie G. Ammons, insbesondere vom Menschenbild und vom strukturellen Verständnis der Persönlichkeit, wird...

Discusses the group dynamic principle in diagnosis and research. This principle, which states that identity and group can only be understood in relation to one another, is a fundamental theoretical assumption of dynamic psychiatry. The group dynamic principle requires objective research to acknowledge the interpersonal reality between researcher an...

Evaluates the Ammon Ego Structure Test (ISTA) in the diagnosis and prognosis of borderline disorder. Data from a sample of 84 patients and 125 healthy controls were assessed. In concordance with ego psychology and object relations theory, borderline disorder is viewed as an identity disturbance resulting from unconscious conflict. Differential and...

tInvestigates the effectiveness of dynamic-psychiatric psychotherapy with psychotic patients in Menterschwaige Hospital in Munich, Germany. A sample of 45 patients was assessed using a battery of questionnaires at admission, at discharge, and at posttreatment follow-up (one to seven years later). Evidence of positive treatment effects was found for...

Presents selected findings of the Munich Follow-up Project. A comprehensive test battery was used to gather data at various times among samples of 254 inpatient schizophrenics and inpatients with narcissistic-depressive structure in the Menterschwaige Clinic in Munich. The clinic is oriented toward Günter Ammon's dynamic psychiatry concept, which a...

Presents an overview of basic elements of human-structural psychotherapy within G. Ammon's dynamic psychiatric concept. The discussion focuses on the specific elements of the theory and the methods of scientific diagnosis within the context of practical therapeutic work with patients with severe psychiatric disorders. The following aspects are pres...

Die Stabilität des "autokinetischen Lichttests" (AKL), der zur Einschätzung konstruktiver, destruktiver und defizitärer Regulationsprozesse der Persönlichkeit eingesetzt wird, wird überprüft. Insgesamt 14 stationär behandelte psychiatrische Patienten unterschiedlicher Diagnosegruppen wurden über zehn Testtage mit dem AKL untersucht. Die unterschied...

Presents findings of an empirical study in which nocturnal polygrams were recorded for a group of nine anorexic patients. A comparison was made with a control group of healthy individuals and with the results of earlier studies on patients with narcissistic depression, schizophrenic reaction, psychosomatic symptoms, and borderline personality. Find...

Examines treatment outcomes in dynamic psychiatric inpatient psychotherapy for groups and subproups of psychotic patients (schizophrenic reactions and narcissistic depression). The data were taken from a sample of 210 patients with the aid of various psycholocial test methods (Ammon's Ich-Struktur-Test, an ego structure test; German version of the...

Die Wirksamkeit einer dynamisch-psychiatrischen stationären Behandlung von Borderline-Patienten wurde an einer Stichprobe von 46 Patienten überprüft. Daten wurden mit dem "Ich-Struktur-Test" nach Ammon und dem "MMPI Saarbrücken" erhoben. Es ergaben sich Hinweise auf eine Abnahme der defizitären und einen Zuwachs der konstruktiven Ausprägungen der H...

Presents results of a study using the Autokinetische Lichttest (AKL), which is based on the phenomena of autokinetic illusions and is used to directly observe the unconscious. A preliminary methodological basis has been formulated in Ammon's model of ego structure. A differentiated version of the diagnostic method is achieved by theoretically combi...

Die vorliegende dritte Untersuchung (1. Teil) aus dem Schlaf- und Traumlabor der Dynamisch­Psychiatrischen Klinik Menterschwaige baut auf früheren Untersuchungen an Patienten der Diagnosegruppen schizophrene, depressive und psychosomatische Reaktionen (vgl. Ammon et al. 1984, 1985 a und 6) auf, die anhand quantitativer Standard-Schlafparameter durc...

Die Beziehung von konstruktiven, defizitären und destruktiven Ausprägungen des Zeiterlebens zu Humanstrukturanteilen und Krankheitsbildern wird für verschiedene Stichproben untersucht. Das Zeiterleben wurde jeweils mittels eines Polaritätenprofils mit 15 bzw. 25 Eigenschaftspaaren erfasst. 95 Teilnehmer eines gruppendynamischen Seminars gaben im Du...

Any research work or scientific investigation is inseparably linked with the persons who undertake it, with their conception of their science, with their particular interest in discovery and their particular notion of the nature of man. Any concept of human nature involves or presupposes elements of judgment or evaluation such that the findings ref...

In a previous paper (Dynamische Psychiatrie 1985, 18 (2)), the theoretical basis and empirical procedures were described that were employed in the analysis of the sleep patterns of patients suffering from depressive, schizophrenic, or psychosomatic disorders. Here, the main results of the investigation are presented. Substantial differences were fo...

Evaluated the results of research conducted using G. Ammon's (1979) ego-structure tests, the MMPI, and a drawing test (DT) devised by E. Wartegg (1939). Pre- and posttherapy test results were compared and an analysis of ego-structural changes during treatment was made. The average length of hospital treatment was 11.2 mo. Ss represented the whole r...

Describes the Autokinetic Light Test by Ammon, Burbiel and Stuck. The test requires subjects to look at a point of light and draw the resulting movements and stopping points. It is assumed within the framework of human structurology theory that through perception of the autokinetic phenomenon the subject expresses his own relationship to his uncons...

Die wichtigsten Methoden und bisherigen Ergebnisse dynamisch-psychiatrischer Forschung werden dargestellt. Zentrales Forschungsanliegen ist dabei die Entwicklung neuer Methoden, die auf der Grundlage der Persönlichkeitstheorie der Dynamischen Psychiatrie basieren und integrativ mit schon bekannten Verfahren eingesetzt werden. Der "Ich-Struktur-Test...

Das Gebäude der Dynamischen Psychiatrie Ammons in Theorie und Praxis basiert auf drei grundsätzlichen Aussagekomplexen, die wiederum aufeinander bezogen sind: Der Mensch ist ein Gruppenwesen; der Mensch ist ein Identitätswesen, und die Wissenschaft vom Menschen beinhaltet ein explizites Menschenbild. Der inhaltliche und formale Gehalt der Begriffe...

Es wird über den derzeitigen Entwicklungsstand des "Ich-Struktur-Tests" nach Günter Ammon zur psychometrischen Erfassung der Ich-Funktionen, der Aggression, der Ich-Abgrenzung und der Angst berichtet. Die Hypothesen zur Entwicklung der Fragebögen zum "Ich-Struktur-Test" wurden abgeleitet aus der Persönlichkeitstheorie der Berliner Schule der Dynami...