Hans-Werner Gessmann

Hans-Werner Gessmann (born 24 March 1950 in Duisburg) is a German psychologist, psychodramatherapist and university teacher in Russia.

Living and Work

Gessmann received a doctorate in 1976 by his work AbOUT causation factors of Dyslexia. He is the founder of Humanistic Psychodrama and adopted in the same year for the first time psychodrama with Hypnosis in the context of [...] dysfunctions. Furthermore he established the Humanistic Psychodrama in the field of child psychotherapy. In the early 80th he started to make film-documentations about complete group-psychotherapy-sessions in European countries. He is the publisher of book series and the International Journal of Humanistic Psychodrama. Gessmann is one of the few empirical researchers in the field of psychodrama and has published over 140 articles on psychological topics. Standards continued his research on the method of doubling from 1996. He is the only author in the German speaking area, who handled this issue fundamentally and scientifically, including translations of the complete source texts from the American.

In 1973 he founded the Psychotherapeutic Institute Bergerhausen (PIB) in Duisburg, starting with 1977 in nearby Kerpen (Cologne), Germany a European training center now for more than 1500 psychotherapists.

Professor Gessmann teaches Clinical Psychology in the faculty of social psychology of the governmental Nekrassow University Kostroma (KSU) as well as professor for General- and Developmental Psychology in the governmental Academy of Social Administration Moscow (ASOU).

In April 2011 he was announced to be the director of the International Centre for clinical psychology and psychotherapy at the governmental Nekrassow University Kostroma (ICCPP) with focus on psychotherapy training and -research, particularly with Humanistic Psychodrama and Systemic Family Therapy.

Since February 2012 he works as professor for Systemic Family Therapy at the Municipal Pedagogical Psychological University Moscow (MGPPU). You can find him on the list of the world's most important psychotherapists.

Awards

2010:Award for international communication between Russia and Germany

2010: State University Nekrasov Kostromahonorary professor of the Faculty of Social Psychology

2011: State University Nekrasov Kostromahonorary professor of the Nekrasov University

Publications

  • Übungslehrbuch zum psychologischen Test für das Studium der Medizin, Zahnmedizin und Tiermedizin. Ü-PTM 14. Jungjohann Verlag, Neckarsulm 1981.
  • Components for group psychotherapy. (Ed.). Jungjohann Verlag, Neckarsulm, Band 1 1984, Band 2 1987; Band 3 1990.
  • Trainingtest for medical program of study 95/96 im Originalformat. 3. Testrevision, Jungjohann Verlagsgesellschaft, Neckarsulm/Stuttgart 1995
  • The Humanistic Psychodrama. In: International Journal of Humanistic Psychodrama. June 1995, 1. Jahrgang, PIB Publisher, Duisburg, Germany.
  • Humanistic Psychodrama. Vol 4. (Ed.). Verlag des PIB, Duisburg 1996.
  • Textbook of Systemic Therapy. (Russische Bearbeitung: Elena Oladova). PIB Publisher, Duisburg, Germany, 2011.
  • Forms of psychotherapy - introductions. (Russische Bearbeitung: Elena Oladova). PIB Publisher, Duisburg, Germany, 2011.

Filmproductions

  • "Want to be healthy?" - an introduction to the bibliodrama", Verlag des PIB, Duisburg 1994
  • Gessmann/Hossbach: Peter Härtling - Mourning and consolation. Development of a literary text using scenic methods from the Humanistic Psychodrama, Verlag des PIB, Duisburg 2006
  • Gessmann/Opdensteinen: Rainer Maria Rilke - Der Panther. Theaterprojekt der Kölner Nordpark Förderschule Lernen mit Methoden des Humanistischen Psychodramas, Verlag des PIB, Duisburg 2008
  • Methods of humanistic psychodrama (digitized revision of 1989) - selected methods of the humanistic psychodrama: First Scene interview, double, auxiliary ego, role reversal, social atom, impromptu scenes creative warming-up. Verlag des PIB, Duisburg 2008
  • "There was no champagne anymore" (revised edition digitized recording of a documentary from 1989 on the treatment of a labor disruption by means of Humanistic Psychodrama). Verlag des PIB, 2008
  • Gessmann/Romeik: Psalm 23 - He is my shepherd. Humanistic Psychodrama with biblical text. Verlag des PIB, Duisburg, 2009
  • «Шампанское закончилось» Использование игры протагонистов гуманистической психодрамы в работе с нарушениями отношенийб. Издательство ПИБ, Дуисбург 2009
  • Gessmann/Passmann: Der Querk im Lummerland. Humanistic Psychodrama with preschool children. Verlag des PIB, Duisburg 2009
  • Gessmann/Vieten: Humanistic Psychodrama with the elderly and old people. Marienkloster 2009. Verlag des PIB, Duisburg 2009
  • Kindheit und Jugend in der NS-Zeit – Dokumentation einer Zeitzeugenbefragung am Städtischen Gymnasium Straelen. Verlag des PIB, Duisburg 2010
  • „Today, I cook, tomorrow I brew …“ - A "touching" story. Protagonist-centered humanistic psychological drama about a dream. Verlag des PIB, Duisburg 2011
  • Methods of systemic therapy 1: Der Einsatz des Familienbrettes in verschiedenen systemtherapeutischen Schulen. Verlag des PIB, Duisburg 2011
  • Children psychodrama therapy. Documentation about the beginning of therapy. Verlag des PIB, Duisburg 2011

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