Bert HELLINGER
Bert HELLINGER was born in 1925 in Germany, to a practicing Catholic family. He renounced belonging to Hitler youth and trained to become a priest. He draws his know-how from a great experience of life and from numerous therapeutic sources.
Initially a missionary priest in South Africa among the Zulus, he left office after twenty years of service to devote himself to psychotherapy. He trained in particular in Freudian psychoanalysis and in primal therapy. He was inspired by several forms of systemic and phenomenological therapy (including group dynamics and gestalt therapy, transactional analysis and hypno-therapy), and transgenerational therapy (including biographical script and psychogenealogy). He made a synthesis of it and thus works with his method of Family Constellations, at different stages of its development, for about forty years.
He lived until his death in 2019 in the south-east of Bavaria with his second wife, Maria Sophie. She continues to run a training school there and organises numerous therapeutic seminars all over the world: www.hellinger.com.
There are many books on his method, most in German, but several in English, for more details: see Bibliography.
Initially a missionary priest in South Africa among the Zulus, he left office after twenty years of service to devote himself to psychotherapy. He trained in particular in Freudian psychoanalysis and in primal therapy. He was inspired by several forms of systemic and phenomenological therapy (including group dynamics and gestalt therapy, transactional analysis and hypno-therapy), and transgenerational therapy (including biographical script and psychogenealogy). He made a synthesis of it and thus works with his method of Family Constellations, at different stages of its development, for about forty years.
He lived until his death in 2019 in the south-east of Bavaria with his second wife, Maria Sophie. She continues to run a training school there and organises numerous therapeutic seminars all over the world: www.hellinger.com.
There are many books on his method, most in German, but several in English, for more details: see Bibliography.