Helm Stierlin (12 March 1926 – 9 September 2021), born as ''Wilhelm Paul Stierlin'', was a German

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and systemic family therapist. From 1974 to 1991 he was the medical director and chairowner of the Department for

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basic research and

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at the

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of the

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. Stierlin contributed significantly to the establishment and further development of

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in Germany. Until 1995 he was the editor of the journal ''Familiendynamik''. His scientific writings and books were translated into twelve languages.

Biography

Early life

Helm Stierlin was the oldest of three sons of the bridge-building engineer and government architect Paul Stierlin (1890 in

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– 1 April 1945 in Mannheim) and his wife Elsbeth-Sophie, née Schöningh (1905 in

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– 1995 in Neckarhausen). His paternal grandparents are Wilhelm Stierlin, director of the Königlich Württembergische Eisenbahn (1853-1906),

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by awarding the Hausorden der Württembergischen Krone, and his wife Anna Stierlin, née Bilfinger (1856-1928). Johann Wendelin Bilfinger, dean in Cannstatt, later Protestant

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, is an

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of Helm Stierlin and the father of

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. Stierlin's maternal grandparents are the manor owner Eduard Schöningh and his wife Elisabeth. Helm Stierlin is married to the Swiss psychologist and family therapist Satuila Stierlin. Two daughters are descended from the marriage. Helm Stierlin grew up in Mannheim, Großwallstadt, Neckarsteinach and from 1935 to 1945 in

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. Due to his father's job, the Stierlin family moved several times. As a young soldier Helm took part in the

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. After the

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of the Wehrmacht on 7 May 1945, he succeeded as a 19-year-old in reaching his homeland via

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without being captured. Helm Stierlin's younger brother Gerhard died at the age of 17 in the Second World War.

Medical education

When the universities reopened their doors in 1945, Helm Stierlin enrolled for the

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at the University of Heidelberg after completing an emergency baccalaureate. Parallel to the compulsory medical lectures and seminars, Stierlin attended the philosophical lectures of

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as often as he could, which demanded a balancing act from him every now and then, since the lecture venues of the medical faculty and the philosophical faculty were far apart from each other, but the compulsory lectures and the optional lectures at Karl Jaspers in Philosophy that interested him were very close in their schedule. Besides Jasper's approaches, the

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school of thought for Stierlin remained a lifelong

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Heidelberg Bergheim Psychosomatische Klinik

Besides yet unresolved derailments of the ethical attitudes and medical practices of some professors at the medical faculties of the universities of Germany during the

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period, there were many positive research approaches and new interdisciplinary ties and connections in Heidelberg after 1945, which had been initiated in particular by the scientific approaches and research work of Viktor von Weizsäcker and Alexander Mitscherlich. In 1950, a chair for

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was established at the University of Heidelberg, of which Viktor von Weizsäcker became the first holder. Mitscherlich, who played a major role in the establishment of the institute, left Heidelberg in 1960 and moved to Frankfurt am Main, where he became the first director after the war at the newly founded Sigmund Freud Institute. Stierlin received his doctorate in philosophy in 1950 from Karl Jaspers at the University of Heidelberg with a dissertation on: "The Concept of Responsibility: Attempt at a Discussion of

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's Pragmatic Ethics of science in Comparison with the Ethik of

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with Consideration of

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's Concept of Science". The rapporteur was Kurt Rossmann, the co-rapporteur was

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. Five years later, Stierlin received his doctorate in

from Kurt Kolle and Gustav Bodechtel at the Medical Faculty of the

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with a dissertation on the subject: "The violent patient: An investigation into the attacks perpetrated by the mentally ill on doctors and nurses".

Professional career

In 1957 Helm Stierlin went to the

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. Here he worked and researched in particular about

, the

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, about the process of detachment in

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and the most recent therapeutic experiences in

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with the expanding therapeutic concepts within the framework of system-theoretical approaches. Stierlin interrupted his stay in America for one year from 1963 to 1964 in order to pursue further training at the Sanatory Bellevue in

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. From 1965 to 1973 he headed the Department of Family Therapy at the

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in Bethesda,

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. During his years in America, he was invited to guest lectureships and visiting professorships at various American universities. He also followed invitations to guest lectures and lectures in

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and

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. During his time in the US, Stierlin got to know the most important pioneers in the field of family therapy research, including

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, Milton H. Erickson,

Jay Haley Jay Douglas Haley (July 19, 1923 – February 13, 2007) was one of the founding figures of Problem-solving brief therapy and family therapy in general and of the strategic model of psychotherapy, and he was one of the more accomplished teachers, ...

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, Salvador Minuchin,

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and

John Weakland John H. Weakland (8 January 1919 – 18 July 1995) was one of the founders of brief and family psychotherapy. At the time of his death, he was a senior research fellow at the Mental Research Institute (MRI) in Palo Alto, California, co-director o ...

. In 1974 Helm Stierlin received a call to the University Clinic Heidelberg for the newly established chair ''Department of Psychoanalytic Basic Research and Family Therapy''. He held this chair until his retirement in 1991. Stierlin familiarized his students with the interdisciplinary discourses and research results in the field of etiology and pathogenesis of schizophrenic diseases. This includes the work of

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, George L. Engel,

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, Milton Erickson,

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, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann,

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, Jay Haley, Heinz Hartmann,

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, Don D. Jackson,

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, Otto Kernberg,

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, Ronald D. Laing, Alexander Mitscherlich,

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and

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. Stierlin succeeded in organizing interdisciplinary advanced training congresses in Heidelberg, including

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s, sociologists,

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and other

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researchers came to exchange ideas with their colleagues and the student body through lectures and seminars. Among many other scientists, the lecturers

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and

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were guests in Heidelberg. Stierlin was co-founder of the Systemic Family Therapy Program at the Psychotherapeutic Institute Bergerhausen founded by

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. Since 2002 exists the Helm Stierlin Institute hsi, one of the leading training institutes for systemic therapy and consulting in Germany. Emerging from the Heidelberg School of Systemic Therapy founded by Helm Stierlin in 1975 the hsi in Haus Schmeil, a large old villa located in a park near Heidelberg Castle, has since been training experts in health care, social work, education, management consulting and other human services in the theory and practice of various systemic consulting approaches.

Awards

* 1985: Distinguished Professional Contribution to Family Therapy Award from the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.
Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon
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Literature

* Helm Stierlin: ''Der Begriff der Verantwortung.'' Versuch einer Erörterung der pragmatischen Wissenschaftsethik John Deweys in Gegenüberstellung mit der Ethik Kants unter Berücksichtigung von Max Webers Wissenschaftsbegriff. Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doktorwürde an der Philosophischen Fakultät der Ruprecht–Karl–Universität, Heidelberg 1950. * Helm Stierlin: ''Der gewalttätige Patient.'' Eine Untersuchung über die von Geisteskranken an Ärzten und Pflegepersonen verübten Angriffe. Inaugural–Dissertation an der Medizinischen Fakultät der Ludwig-Maximilian–Universität, München 1955. S. Karger Verlag, Basel (Schweiz) 1956. * Helm Stierlin: ''Das Tun des Einen ist das Tun des Anderen. Eine Dynamik menschlicher Beziehungen''. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1976, . * Helm Stierlin: ''Eltern und Kinder: Das Drama von Trennung und Versöhnung im Jugendalter.'' Suhrkamp 1980, . * Helm Stierlin: ''Delegation und Familie.'' Beiträge zum Heidelberger familiendynamischen Konzept, Suhrkamp 1982, . * Helm Stierlin: ''Individuation und Familie: Studien zur Theorie und therapeutischen Praxis''. 1st edition Suhrkamp 1989, 2nd edition, Suhrkamp 1994, . * Helm Stierlin: ''Ich und die anderen.'' Psychotherapie in einer sich wandelnden Gesellschaft. Klett-Cotta, 1994, . * Helm Stierlin: ''Christsein hundert Jahre nach Nietzsche. Systemisch-therapeutische Perspektiven.'' Verlag Welbrück 2001, . * Helm Stierlin: ''Oh, dass sie ewig grünen bliebe!- Ein systemisches Paar-Brevier für anhaltendes Glück in Versen und Bildern.'' Carl Auer Verlag 2002, . * Helm Stierlin with Gunthard Weber: ''In Liebe entzweit. Ein systemischer Ansatz zum Verständnis und zur Behandlung der Magersuchtfamilie.'' Carl Auer Verlag 2003, . * Helm Stierlin with

: ''Krebsrisiken – Überlebenschancen: Wie Körper, Seele und soziale Umwelt zusammenwirken.'' 1st edition Heidelberg 1998; 3rd edition, Carl-Auer-Verlag, Heidelberg 2006, . * Helm Stierlin with Ingeborg Rücker-Embden, Norbert Wetzel, Michael Wirsching: ''Das erste Familiengespräch: Theorie - Praxis - Beispiele''. Klett-Cotta 2002, . * Helm Stierlin: ''Die Demokratisierung der Psychotherapie.'' Bilanz eines großen Psychotherapeuten. Klett-Cotta, 2003, . * Helm Stierlin: ''Ob sich das Herz zum Herzen findet: Ein systemisches Paar-Brevier in Versen und Bildern.'' Carl-Auer-Systeme-Verlag, Heidelberg 2006. * Helm Stierlin: ''Gerechtigkeit in nahen Beziehungen.'' Carl-Auer-Verlag, 3rd edition, Heidelberg 2006, . * Helm Stierlin: ''Psychoanalyse - Familientherapie - systemische Therapie.'' Entwicklungslinien, Schnittstellen, Unterschiede. Klett-Cotta, 2006, . * Helm Stierlin: ''Nietzsche, Hölderlin und das Verrückte: Systemische Exkurse.'' Carl Auer Verlag 2008, ASIN: B0772PGQBL. * Helm Stierlin: ''Haltsuche in Haltlosigkeit''. * Helm Stierlin: ''Sinnsuche im Wandel. Herausforderungen für Psychoanalytik und Gesellschaft. Eine persönliche Bilanz.'' Carl-Auer-Verlag, Heidelberg 2010, . * Hans Rudi Fischer, Gunthard Weber (Hrsg.): ''Individuum und System: für Helm Stierlin.'' Suhrkamp 2000, .

References

External links

* Helm Stierlin one of the Founders of the ''Family systems Therapy''. Conversation on BR2

''Reception on Helm Stierlin's 85th birthday''
in the Heidelberg Center for American Studies, Amerika Haus Heidelberg.
Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg - Zentrum für Psychosoziale Medizin
* Wolf Ritscher
''Das Tun des Einen ist das Tun des Anderen. Helm Stierlins Beiträge zur Entwicklung von Theorie und Praxis der Familientherapie.''

''Selection of lectures of Helm Stierlin''
im Rahmen der Lindauer Psychotherapiewochen (PDF) {{DEFAULTSORT:Stierlin, Helm 1926 births 2021 deaths German psychiatrists Heidelberg University alumni Academic staff of Heidelberg University Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni People from Mannheim