[Sibling relations in processing sexual trauma: the film "The Celebration"]]. / Geschwisterbeziehungen in der Verarbeitung sexueller Traumatisierung: Der Film "Das Fest".

Movies appeal as a subject of psychoanalytical art interpretation due to their structural closeness to "scenical understanding" and enrich our Insight into human relationships. The movie Das Pest is worth seeing because of its particular aesthetic form and because of its message about sibling relationships. According to the assessment of film journalists the movie shows the dismantling of middle class society and the reinscenation of destructive violence. In this author's interpretation, however, the movie leads out of passing violence on through the generations and herein differs from numerous current movies about siblings. The movie is about the process of a constructive development in the reciprocal relationships between four siblings and shows this in the formal structure of a film. With countertransference and our "viewing habits" the author discusses why this development could be overlooked. The movie shows neither a sibling fixation nor an idealization of sibling love as a regressive, timeless topos, but rather a horizontal relationship process. This is open towards partners and allows for a conciliatory attitude towards the parents. The movie is able to show this process conclusively under the burden of intergenerational violence and in its creativity enriches our image of sibling relationships.

[Sibling relations: an introduction to the horizontal relation dynamics in a psychoanalytic "family" concept]. / Geschwisterbeziehungen: Die Einführung der horizontalen Beziehungsdynamik in ein psychoanalytisches Konzept "Familie".

This position encompasses the idea that the family concept is represented by a vertical, complementary relationship between child and parents. For decades this position was hardly disputed. The sibling relationship was set apart, or more exactly fixed on a negative, psychopathological potential, in great contrast to daily life-experience and to the cultural value-system. This view point (and its persistant dominance) is illuminated against the background of multiple motivated, collective counterprocesses and deficient, intersubjective development theories. A new and clear change that has been taken place in the concept of the sibling relationship during the last decade is expounded and discussed here. Important conclusions for the development theory are submitted. The sibling relationship is, like the parent-child relationship, an elementary experience and a transferable behaviour-model. Significant psychodynamic processes in sibling relationships are hereby described and possible variant family-dynamics resulting from the interplay between the horizontal and vertical levels are outlined. The creation of sibling relationships during children's games, of imaginary siblings and fantasies of wishing for a sibling are shown. The relevance of the sibling-dynamics for development processes and for family-dynamic processes thus becomes apparent. Important implications for the clinical-psychotherapeutic domain reinforce the demand for including the consideration of siblings in the psychodynamic discussion of the family and in the clinical setting.

[Mother, father, child--on the theory of dyadic and triadic relationships]. / Mutter, Vater, Kind--Zur Theorie dyadischer und triadischer Beziehungen.

Starting with the observable persistence of dyadic relationship models in the present understanding of the psychodynamic process from partner relationships (man-woman) to threesome relationships (mother-child-father), the theory is maintained that specific interpersonal psychodynamic defense processes, effecting both genders help constellate this situation. These dynamics are seen in the contents of the psychoanalytic theory of development. The inappropriateness of dyadic ideas of relationships can also be seen in neonatological research results. Finally triadic thought models in psychoanalytic theory will be presented and discussed. An emancipatory understanding of the threesome relation father-child-mother requires the elimination of the unconscious in the social process, in psychoanalytical discourse and in both genders.

[Psychologic adjustment in pediatric cardiologic interventions. Observations and recommendations]. / Psychische Bewältigung kinderkardiologischer Eingriffe. Beobachtungen und Empfehlungen.

Under the assumption that no appropriate psychological care of children exists in the area of pediatric cardiology, a pediatric-cardiologic team worked together with a child-and-adolescent-psychiatrist to define the possibilities of preventing psychic traumatisation associated with cardiac interventions on children. The emotional reactions of children between 5 and 15 years of age and of their parents in connection with a cardiac catheter examination, as well as the role of the intervening doctor in his own eyes and in the eyes of the child, will be described. Practical recommendations for patients, families and institution follow, concerning the preparation of cardiac interventions with children and a detailed preparation program for cardiac catheter examination.