[1] • Psychologists • Child/adolescent psychotherapists • Social workers Peter Henningsen Dorothea Huber Pltatzl 4 a 80331 Munich Each of the two conference weeks on psychotherapy takes place on the island of Lindau, located in the German-Austrian-Swiss border triangle.
In the same year, the Lindau Psychotherapy Week was organized in agreement with the AÄGP[3] under the chairmanship of Hanns Ruffin [de] and the management of Helmuth Stolze.
Following a one-year period of working for Viktor von Weizsäcker in Heidelberg, psychiatrist Erich Lindemann emigrated to Harvard in the United States.
In 1965, a "Program Committee" was formed to design the main themes and lectures for the conference, which included Helmuth Stolze (Munich), Hanspeter Harlfinger (Tübingen-Wehen), Dietrich Langen [de] (Tübingen-Mainz), Leonhard Schlegel (Zurich), Eckart Wiesenhütter (Würzburg-Tübingen-Bethel), Wulf Wunnenberg (Hamburg), and Peter Hahn (Heidelberg).
(Association for Psychotherapeutic Training and Further Education) was established under the leadership of Paul Kluge, who now acts as the legal sponsor of the Lindau Psychotherapy Weeks.
In the 1970s, the Lindau Psychotherapy Weeks began to transform from a primarily lecture-based event into a conference providing courses, seminars, and exercises.
Manfred Cierpka [de], a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst from Ulm who had been involved in the program design since 1989, was then elected by the board (consisting of Peter-Christian Fink, Werner Stucke, Barbara Buddeberg-Fischer) to become a director.
In 1987, Otto F. Kernberg made his first appearance in Lindau, where he gave lectures on the topics of "Concepts of the psychotherapeutic relationship" and "What works in the psychotherapy of severe personality disorders?"
David Orlinsky, former President of the North American Society for Psychotherapy Research, lectured in 1996 and 1998 on the topic of "The Professional and Personal Development of Psychotherapists".
Since 2009, the Vereinigung für psychotherapeutische Fort- und Weiterbildung e. V. (Association for Psychotherapeutic Continuing Education) has been organising and funding support programs for young psychotherapists with the aim of imparting skills on topics such as "No fear of groups" and "Dealing with relatives in psychotherapy" to young professionals and newcomers to the profession who work in clinics or in outpatient settings.
The findings of Mettauer's research revealed that the focus on the political processes and developments, resulting from the post-war reconstruction of the Federal Republic of Germany, had provided an alibi and distraction from engaging in a critical examination of the legacy of the Third Reich.