[The Stuttgart Psychotherapeutic Institute, Wolfgang Loch and the beginnings of the DPV-Study Group Stuttgart-Tübingen. Historical essay of an eye witness]. / Das Stuttgarter psychotherapeutische Institut, Wolfgang Loch und die Anfänge der DPV-Arbeitsgemeinschaft Stuttgart-Tübingen--historischer Versuch eines Zeitzeugen.

During the Nazi-regime, the Stuttgart Psychotherapeutic Institute (1948-1970) had a memorable precursor which was a branch of the Berlin "Göring-Institut". Its stated goal to be a "synoptic" institute that combined Freud, Jung and Adler is discussed. Then the crisis triggered by Wolfgang Loch in 1964 is focussed on. It is shown how Loch tried to create a kind of Tavistock clinic with himself as director, how the board and the members warded this off, how old conflicts between the two German psychoanalytic societies came into play, and how the synoptic institute finally, in an exciting process of separation and individuation, changed to a new structure with three departments: a Freudian group, a neo-analytic group and a Stuttgart group. In conclusion a glance is cast at the early history of the "Study Group Stuttgart-Tübingen, Institute of the German Psychoanalytic Association", founded in 1971.

From the Balint method toward profession-related supervision.

This paper focuses on Michael Balint's special application of psychoanalysis, originally conceived as a training of doctors. Then the attempt is made to discover indirectly, since Balint never described his method in context, what he thought mattered in terms of method. Besides Balint's own contributions, those of his own staff are also consulted as well as the cultural background of the Tavistock Clinic and the Tavistock Institute. Then the further developments of the Balint method in the German-speaking world are presented. At the center are the special features of the method: (a) the atmosphere, (b) the narrator's contribution, (c) listening and reactions of the members of the group, (d) the unconscious enactments in transference and countertransference and the mirror-phenomena, respectively. Furthermore, the respective central points of reference are discussed from the viewpoint of communication science: (a) case, (b) group, and (c) institution. In conclusion and based on these foundations, the characteristics of the application of the Balint method in the form of a particular profession-related supervision are presented.