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cyberrose wrote (edited )

In german there is https://www.radikale-therapie.de/ I tried to look up some english page but the first few hits where quite dissapointing. So if you are interested you have to do your own research; sorry.

Basically its a form of group therapy based on:

  • Radical Psychiatry
  • Transaktionsanalyse
  • Co-Counseling

These forms of therapy are performed in a long-time group (1 year min) and do not have a leader or professional person guiding the group. The group starts with 2 weekends of training on which people from other groups come and teach the fundamentals of this therapy. After the first weekend the group is ready to perform its own weekly meetings. The meetings are organized in a way that every time 2 people prepare the meeting and perform the methods. This rotates and every week different people will be in the position to prepare the next meeting. This leads to the point that everyone is capable of sharing the knowledge and helping other groups.

The methods they use are based on the three mentioned abvoe but can be extended in various ways. Everyone can bring in other methods and try out if it fits to the group. E.g. body therapy is also very common.

This is basically RT. FORT is quite similar but women* only and MRT also but for men*. Also the content from every group can be very different.

In critical psychology there is something "similar" called "kollektive selbstverständigung" (https://selbstverstaendigung.de/was-ist-ksv/). With this they build groups to find out why people (they) behave in the way they do by reflecting their socio-economical standpoint and how society influences them. I can't explain it good in english since the wording is quite complex. The concept is based on critical psychology (Holzkamp) which is kinda an anti-authoritarian marxist psychology which was formed around 68.

Edit: I really like critical psychology; not for their real life methods (they often are just not there, lol) but for their view on life and how your psych is formed and how to act. Personal they gave me, just by reading the stuff, so much more ease in life but also conserved the anger on society; and the second point is often missing in classical psychology (I have the feeling it's that case at least).

Hope this is enough for now?

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SnowCode OP wrote

Thanks a lot, I'll look at that!

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cyberrose wrote

No problem. Thank you for bringing up the initial question ^^ Think this is a central problem these days and (also in radical circles) often overlooked. So again - thanks.

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