Michael Alexander Wieser

Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt · Institute of Psychology

http://link.springer.com/journal/11620/13/1/suppl/page/1 http://www.springer.com/de/book/9783658054816 Jacob Levy Moreno war ein origineller und produktiver Denker des 20. Jahrhunderts. Über die Entwicklung des Psychodramas, der Soziometrie und der Gruppenpsychotherapie hinaus hat er viele Impulse gesetzt, die die heutige Psychologie, Soziologie...

http://www.springer.com/de/book/9783531185231 http://link.springer.com/journal/11620/10/1/suppl/page/1 Theoretische Aspekte und Ergebnisse empirische Studien zum Psychodrama werden praesentiert, wobei vier Bereiche angesprochen werden: Grundlegendes zur Forschung, Psychodrama mit Kindern und Jugendlichen, stoerungsorientiertes Psychodrama sowie P...

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The Erasmus+ project “Death Education for Palliative Psychology” (DE4PP) under the coordination of the University of Padua investigated the effects of teaching palliative psychology with psychodrama and arts therapies, as positive effects on students’ attitudes towards life and death were suspected through the use of these forms of treatment. Five...

Background The need to spread the culture of palliative care and to train health care professionals from undergraduate courses is recognised internationally. The article presents the outcomes of a project devoted to palliative care training in university courses in four countries. Aims This article considered the outcomes of a course designed for...

The COVID-19 pandemic has created profound upheavals in today’s society, accompanied by psychological effects. The discomfort experienced during the pandemic accompanied by the increased availability of time has offered many people the chance to reconnect with their spiritual dimension, which is considered a vital resource in managing the stress pr...

(1) Background: The Italian Constitutional Court’s decision n. 99/2019 abolished the distinction between physical and psychological health care in the Italian prison system. However, this and other changes to the penitentiary system present challenges to prison staff, which may vary based on their roles and backgrounds; (2) Purpose: To create a pro...

Background: The denial of death in Western society deprives young people of the tools to derive meaning from experiences of death and dying. Literature shows that death education may allow them to become familiar with this topic without causing negative effects. This article describes the effects of a death education course with adolescents, wherei...

The systematic removal of death from social life in the West has exposed people living in areas affected by COVID-19 to the risk of being unable to adequately manage the anxiety caused by mortality salience. Death education is a type of intervention that helps people manage their fear of death by offering them effective strategies to deal with loss...

Background The denial of death in Western society deprives young people of the tools to derive meaning from experiences of death and dying. Literature shows that death education may allow them to become familiar with this topic without causing negative effects. This article describes the effects of a death education course with adolescents, wherein...

As part of a European Erasmus Plus project entitled Death Education for Palliative Psychology, this study assessed the ways in which Master’s Degree students in psychology and the creative arts therapies self-rated their confidence and interest in death education and palliative and bereavement care. In five countries (Austria, Israel, Italy, Poland...

This study was designed as an action research aimed to help students to elaborate their feelings of traumatic grief, due to a car accident and a suicide of two of their classmates, in an Italian high school. A death education project was realized in order to prevent the Werther effect. The intervention was based on psychodramatic techniques and med...

The study presents the results of qualitative research carried out within a death education project dedicated to advance treatment directives (ATDs) in which it was proposed to participants to empathize with people who had received a diagnosis of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). The study involved 104 people who discussed and reflected on issue...

In Western society, the topic of death has been removed from everyday life and replaced with medical language. Such censorship does not reduce individuals' fear of death, but rather limits their ability to elaborate their experiences of death, thus generating negative effects. The objective of this follow-up qualitative study was to detect how and...

The censorship of death-related issues is widespread in contemporary Western culture because the boundary between death and life is substantially managed in medical areas. In the context of Italian educational initiatives, to remove this limitation, 215 high school students in Southern Italy were educated on death through conventional and informal...

This article presents the results of a qualitative study aiming to consider the relationship between ambiguous loss and anticipatory mourning amongst relatives of missing people in Italy. Eight people participated in the research, narrating their experiences of losing a beloved person (one found alive, three found dead, and four still missing). Fin...

PhotoTherapy represents a recent psychotherapeutic intervention which, through the medium of photography, has the objective of helping a patient reach a higher self-knowledge and explore thoughts, desires, and intimate perceptions that would otherwise remain hidden. Because of this, it may help people overcome their cognitive and emotional boundari...

Unclear communication of inauspicious prognoses may disorientate both patients and their relatives, drastically jeopardizing the planning of palliative care. This paper considers the issue of truth-telling in the communicative problems of nurses and students of nursing with terminally ill patients. The fundamental objective is the analysis of the d...

Background The theme of death in Western society has been removed from everyday life and replaced with specialized medical language. Such censorship does not reduce the fear of death, especially among young people, and it limits the possibility to elaborate on experiences linked to death, generating negative effects, especially in cases of traumati...

Background The theme of death in Western society has been removed from everyday life and replaced with specialized medical language. Such censorship does not reduce the fear of death, especially among young people, and it limits the possibility to elaborate on experiences linked to death, generating negative effects, especially in cases of traumati...

Background: In Western society, discussions about death have shifted from the domain of the everyday to the domain of medicine. Such censorship does not reduce the fear of death; rather, it deprives people of the means to elaborate their experiences of death, generating negative effects such as difficult mourning and stigmatisation of palliative ca...

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Jakob Moreno Levy was a writer and an important editor of expressionistic literature around World War I in Austria (1910-1925). The journal DER NEUE DAIMON (THE NEW DAIMON, 1919) following DAIMON (1918) was meant to help overcome the struggles after a revolutionary time and find a way to a new democracy. Socrates’ Daimonion is something in between...

Jacob Levy Moreno was an important editor for expressionistic literature at the end of World War I in Vienna. The journal DER NEUE DAIMON (THE NEW DAIMON) was meant to help overcome the struggles after a revolutionary time and find a way to a new democracy. After 100 years, the lecture will cover who contributed to the journal, who were the publish...

100 years ago, Jakob Moreno Levy edited the expressionistic journal DER NEUE DAIMON (THE NEW DAIMON). The lecture will cover a revolutionary time after World War I and we will ask what stays important for the 21st century. Learning outcomes: You will get some insight in Moreno Levy´s early writings and publishing in Austria. Methodology: historica...

»100 Jahre Zeitschrift DAIMON aus einer österreichischen Perspektive« J. L. Moreno war am Ende des Ersten Weltkrieges ein wichtiger Herausgeber expressionistischer Literatur. Die Zeitschrift DAIMON war als Hilfe zur Überwindung der kriegerischen und revolutionären Kämpfe und für das Erlangen eines Weges zu einer neuen Demokratie gedacht. Nach hunde...

100 years ago Jakob Moreno Levy founded the expressionistic journal DAIMON. You will get some insight in his early writings and publishing in Austria. With a lecture and some slides, I will bring you to this time of the fading empire and we will ask what stays important for the 21st century

It is quite a challenge to evaluate interpreter supported trauma psychotherapy for asylum seekers because of the external dynamic that influences so much: whether or not they will succeed to gain asylum. This is an existential issue and very strong. The power of psychotherapy is in comparison weak, so we need to ask the question whether psychothera...

This article aims to draw attention to a social organization which impels us to the search for a type of life organization, for the satisfaction of our attachment needs; recognition; belonging; acceptance; and finally well-being or even happiness, by means of conjugality relations or love relations. It is expected, in addition, for those relationsh...

Praxisorientierte Psychotherapieforschung und insbesondere verfahrensübergreifende, patientenorientierte Aspekte stellen den aktuellen State of the Art dar, der die Interessen der Praxis sowie die akademischen Anforderungen sinnvoll verbindet. Der vorliegende Leitfaden dient als Orientierungshilfe in Bezug auf Grundlagen für Wissenschaft und Forsch...

Jacob Levy Moreno was an important editor for expressionistic literature at the end of World War I in Vienna. The journal Daimon was meant to help overcome the struggles of world war and revolutions and find a way to a new democracy. After 100 years, we look into who contributed to the journal, who were the publishers, and what followed after. KEYW...

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Zusammenfassung: Der artikel beschreibt eine Landkarte für psychodramatikerinnen und So-ziodramatikerinnen. in einem ersten teil werden einige historische und erkenntnistheoretische referenzmarken ausgeführt, um die Herausforderungen und probleme, die mit Morenos theorie (oder theorien) verbunden sind, ebenso deutlich zu machen wie ihre Validierung...

This presentation will discuss the Society of Psychotherapy Research collaborative research network to achieve a more representative Austrian sample using Development of Psychotherapist Common Core Questionnaire. A longitudinal study of development in psychotherapy trainees was will be conducted using questionnaires for training programs, trainee b...

Spontaneity has been defined as an adaptive response to varying situational conditions. In this regard, it may be considered as a major contributor to well-being and mental health which could play an essential role within the context of psychotherapy. Despite its potential importance empirical research on spontaneity has been lacking until recently...

Social networks and their characteristics in different cultures were analyzed regarding their correlation with life satisfaction. Based on their questionnaire responses participants from Hong Kong and Hungary were assigned to one of three types of network (centralized, decentralized, distributed) and their life satisfaction was surveyed using Diene...

Nearly 50 authors enlarge the empirical base of psychodrama. The aim and research questions cover instruments, methods, and social network as well as clinical investigations of children, youth and adults. The last chapter deals with research on supervision, education and training. The contributors used mostly quantitative and mixed-method and some...

Social networks and their characteristics in different cultures were analyzed regarding their correlation with life satisfaction. Based on their questionnaire responses participants from Hong Kong and Hungary were assigned to one of three types of network (centralized, decentralized, distributed) and their life satisfaction was surveyed using Diene...

Spontaneity has been defined as an adaptive response to varying situational conditions. In this regard, it may be considered as a major contributor to well-being and mental health which could play an essential role within the context of psychotherapy. Despite its potential importance empirical research on spontaneity has been lacking until recently...

It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to this edition of Zeitschrift für Psychodrama und Soziometrie that is dedicated to research undertaken in many forms and places. Kate Kirk was honoured to be asked to be part of the editorial team by Michael Wieser and Christian Stadler. We must not forget someone who was present though more behind the...

The study discusses the construct of spontaneity and its causal relationship with psychological well-being. It develops a preview phase of validation of the SAI-R and its correlation with the Clinical Outcomes for Routine Evaluation- Outcome Measure (CORE-OM) and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II) and assumes the hypothesis that a high level of...

The study discusses the construct of spontaneity and its causal relationship with psychological well-being. It develops a preview phase of validation of the SAI-R and its correlation with the Clinical Outcomes for Routine Evaluation-Outcome Measure (CORE-OM) and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II) and assumes the hypothesis that a high level of...

Aim: 1. Following Society of Psychotherapy Research collaborative research network we like to achieve a more representative Austrian sample using “Development of Psychotherapist Common Core Questionnaire”. 2. A longitudinal study of development in psychotherapy trainees. We are using questionnaires for training programs, trainee background, trainee...

Title: Research in Group Psychotherapy and Group Processes Th. orient: Group Analysis – Group Dynamics – Psychoanalysis, Psychodrama or other activating methods Typ present.: Symposium - panel Panelist: Catherine Mela, Galabina Tarashoeva, Michael Wieser Discussant: Irene Vitsentou Description: To promote research in group psychotherapy and gro...

This article reflects some impressions and tendencies of the workshop in June 2015 following an invitation of the Ministry of Health/GÖG in Vienna. The meeting gathered the representatives for science and research together to share their experiences on fostering and implementing science in the psychotherapeutic methods (Fachspezifika). The workshop...

Dieser Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über die wichtigsten Inhalte der Hauptvorträge bei der Tagung zur praxisorientierten Psychotherapieforschung, die am 7. und 8. November 2014 in Wien stattfand. Exemplarische Eindrücke aus den Workshops der Konferenz widerspiegeln einen Ausschnitt einer kreativen Arbeitsatmosphäre, offenen und anregenden Diskussio...

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J. L. Moreno lebte als junger Arzt bis 1925 im niederösterreichischen Bad Vöslau im Haus ‚Maital 4‘. Seit den 1980er Jahren gibt es die Idee und unterschiedlichste Initiativen, dieses ehemalige Wohnhaus in Bad Vöslau für ein „Morenomuseum“, als Gedenk- und Forschungsstätte zu adaptieren. Der Beitrag benennt einige historische Daten des Wohnhauses u...

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The study forms part of an exploration of gender violence. Using a sample of Italian and Austrian university students (n=166 and 146, respectively), it examines whether spontaneity is correlated with psychological well-being. Three self-reporting questionnaires were applied: the Revised Spontaneity Assessment Inventory (SAI-R); the CORE-OM Outcome...

In this paper we present the results of the last stage of the research project Empower Daphne that involved the participation of six countries belonging to the EU in two phases: I) validation of the theoretical model on which basis rests the construct of well-being and spontaneity; II) analysis of Morenian psychodrama intervention efficacy. 407 uni...

The study forms part of an exploration of gender violence. Using a sample of Italian and Austrian university students (n=166 and 146, respectively), it examines whether spontaneity is correlated with psychological well-being. Three self-reporting questionnaires were applied: the Revised Spontaneity Assessment Inventory (SAI-R); the CORE-OM Outcome...

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Im vorliegenden Band werden die Wurzeln der Soziometrie beschrieben, sprich Morenos Zeit in Österreich. Kenntnisreich setzt sich Scherr mit der historischen Situation auseinander. Zahlreiche Abbildungen machen diese frühe Phase Morenos anschaulich. Blattert beschreibt in seinem Beitrag Morenos prophetische Haltung. Er setzt sich dazu mit dem Begrif...

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This contribution presents the main results of Empower which is a research-intervention project in the real world that focuses on the problem of gender-based violence, particularly domestic violence and the mother-daughter relationship. The contribution develops the idea of Morenian sociatry where psychodrama can be considered an elective intervent...

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An important but challenging task of our times is to unveil hidden violence and to raise people’s awareness of its existence; especially domestic violence that is often unreported. This paper is meant to provide a brief insight into the situation of gender violence and the treatment of victims in Austria. After a basic presentation of the statisti...

The present paper reviews ten empirical studies addressing the hypothesis that spontaneity represents a positive personality trait. It investigates the theoretical proposition that spontaneity is positively related to well being, and negatively related to psychological maladjustment. These explorations shed a new light on the nature and meaning of...