Fritz Riemann (psychologist)

Fritz Riemann (Born September 15, 1902 in Chemnitz, Germany; died August 24, 1979 in Munich, West Germany) was a German psychologist, psychoanalyst, astrologer, and author.

Personal life

Fritz Riemann has three courses analyses. His first teaching analyst was Therese Benedek, 1935 because of their Jewish father from the German Psychoanalytic Society had to resign and 1936 emigrated to the United States. His second Riemann training analysis made in Felix Boehm and the third at Harald Schultz-Hencke.

Fritz Riemann 1946 was co-founder of the Institutefor psychological research and psychotherapyin Munich, 1974 in the Academy of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy has been renamed. In the first time he was the only training analyst at the Institute and for many years the only Freudianer. From 1956 to 1967, he was training director.

Riemann is an honorary member of the Academy of Psychoanalysis New York.

Professional life

Anxiety

In 1961 he published a book called "Grundformen der Angst" wherein he developed a personality typology. He postulates that every person has two pairs of conflicting needs, each coming with their own form of fear or anxiety.

The first pair is the need to be an individual vs the need to be part of a group. The corresponding fears are fear of love and commitment and fear of loneliness and self-actualisation. The second pair is the need for constancy vs the need for change. The corresponding fears are fear of insecurity and change and fear of confinement and constancy.

Riemann stresses that everybody experiences all of these fears, in different strengths and occurrence. But when and if one of the fears becomes so dominant within a person that it eclipses the other fears, he speaks of mentally unhealthy people. Each fear comes with its own type of disorder. When the fear of love is dominant, Riemann speaks of schizoid people. When it's the fear of loneliness, he speaks of depressed persons. Fear of change corresponds with obsessive characteristics, whereas fear of constancy brings out "hysterical" personalities.

Astrology

Fritz Riemann turned to astrology in 1976 and published the book Lebenshilfe astrology - thoughts and experiences, which he views as their contribution to "rehabilitate" installations, he argues is a prejudice access to the thinking and symbolic language Astrology. The inclusion of Geburtshoroskops individual he saw as fruitful for all human relationships, taking the responsibility in their own personal development stressed. The Astrology according to his statements had an impact on his psychotherapeutic work.

Publications

Psychology

• Anxiety. Using Depth Psychology to Find a Balance in Your Life (translated by Greta Dunn), Munich / Basel: Ernst Reinhardt 2008, ISBN 978-3-497-02043-0 (German edition Grundformen der Angst first published in 1961)
• Basic forms helfender partnership. Selected Essays (ed. and with an introd. of Karl Herbert Mandel), Munich: J. Pfeiffer 1974, currently: Stuttgart, Klett-Cotta, 9th edition 2004, ISBN 978-3-608-89622-0
• The art of aging (ed. by Siegfried Elhardt and Doris Zagermann), Stuttgart: Cross 1981, currently: Munich, Ernst Reinhardt, 4th edition 2007, ISBN 978-3-497-01955-7
• The ability to love, Munich: Ernst Reinhardt 2007, ISBN 978-3-497-01901-4

Astrology

• Lebenshilfe astrology. Thoughts and experiences, Munich: J. Pfeiffer 1976, currently: Munich, Deutscher Taschenbuch 2005, 20 Edition, ISBN 3-423-34262-5
• Ernst von Xylander:The cheerful horoscope. Astrological Verses, Zurich: Current 1955, currently: Berne, Origo, 4 REV. A. 1993, ISBN 978-3-282-00022-7

External links

• 120505347 Fritz Riemann (psychologist) in the German National Library catalogue (German)
• Fritz Riemann's "basic forms of fear"
• Rudolf Sponsel to Riemann's typology