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Helm Stierlin (12 March 1926 – 9 September 2021 Nachruf von Fritz B. Simon Carl Auer Verlag, retrieved 13 September 2021. Helm Stierlin – Wegbereiter der systemischen Familientherapie | Zum Tod von Helm Stierlin am 9. September 2021), born as Wilhelm Paul Stierlin, was a German psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and systemic family therapist. From 1974 to 1991 he was the medical director and chairowner of the Department for psychoanalytic basic research and Family Therapy at the Medical Faculty of the University of Heidelberg.Michael Wirsching: Helm Stierlin - Biography written at time of nomination. (english)Michael Reitz: Helm Stierlin - Zeitzeuge und Pionier der systemischen Therapie. Carl Auer Verlag, Heidelberg 2014.Katalog der deutschen Nationalbibliothek: Helm StierlinTom Levold, Wolf Ritscher, Dörte Foertsch, Petra Bauer: Erkunden, erinnern, erzählen - Interviews zur Entwicklung des systemischen Ansatzes Gotthard Schettler: Das Klinikum der Universität Heidelberg und seine InstituteInstitute für psychosoziale Prävention: History of the Institute Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek - Helm Stierlin Stierlin contributed significantly to the establishment and further development of systemic therapy in Germany.
Until 1995 he was the editor of the journal Familiendynamik. His scientific writings and books were translated into twelve languages. Prof. Dr. Helm Stierlin, HeidelbergSistemas: Lebenslauf Interview mit Stierlin
His paternal grandparents are Wilhelm Stierlin, director of the Königlich Württembergische Eisenbahn (1853-1906), nobility by awarding the Hausorden der Württembergischen Krone, and his wife Anna Stierlin, née Bilfinger (1856-1928). Johann Wendelin Bilfinger, dean in Cannstatt, later Protestant abbot, is an ancestor of Helm Stierlin and the father of Georg Bernhard Bilfinger. Stierlin's maternal grandparents are the manor owner Eduard Schöningh and his wife Elisabeth.
Helm Stierlin is married to the Swiss psychologist and family therapist Satuila Stierlin. Two daughters are descended from the marriage.Wolf Ritscher: Helm Stierlin - My personal encounter with Helm Stierlin Helm and Satu
Helm Stierlin grew up in Mannheim, Großwallstadt, Neckarsteinach and from 1935 to 1945 in Stettin. Due to his father's job, the Stierlin family moved several times. As a young soldier Helm took part in the Second World War. After the Unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht on 7 May 1945, he succeeded as a 19-year-old in reaching his homeland via Prague without being captured. Helm Stierlin's younger brother Gerhard died at the age of 17 in the Second World War.Satuila Stierlin: I burned with curiosity. Family stories of important family therapists. Carl Auer Systems, Heidelberg 2001, , p. 200-216.
In 1950, a chair for psychosomatic medicine was established at the University of Heidelberg, of which Viktor von Weizsäcker became the first holder. Mitscherlich, who played a major role in the establishment of the institute,Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg: Allgemeine Innere Medizin & Psychosomatik left Heidelberg in 1960 and moved to Frankfurt am Main, where he became the first director after the war at the newly founded Sigmund Freud Institute.
Stierlin received his doctorate in philosophy in 1950 from Karl Jaspers at the University of Heidelberg with a dissertation on: "The Concept of Responsibility: Attempt at a Discussion of John Dewey's Pragmatic Ethics of science in Comparison with the Ethik of Kant with Consideration of Max Weber's Concept of Science". The rapporteur was Kurt Rossmann, the co-rapporteur was Hans-Georg Gadamer.
Five years later, Stierlin received his doctorate in medicine from Kurt Kolle and Gustav Bodechtel at the Medical Faculty of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München with a dissertation on the subject: "The violent patient: An investigation into the attacks perpetrated by the mentally ill on doctors and nurses".
Stierlin interrupted his stay in America for one year from 1963 to 1964 in order to pursue further training at the Sanatory Bellevue in Kreuzlingen. From 1965 to 1973 he headed the Department of Family Therapy at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland. During his years in America, he was invited to guest lectureships and visiting professorships at various American universities. He also followed invitations to guest lectures and lectures in New Zealand and Australia.
During his time in the US, Stierlin got to know the most important pioneers in the field of family therapy research, including Gregory Bateson, Milton H. Erickson, Jay Haley, Margaret Mead, Salvador Minuchin, Virginia Satir and John Weakland.
In 1974 Helm Stierlin received a call to the University Clinic Heidelberg for the newly established chair Department of Psychoanalytic Basic Research and Family Therapy. He held this chair until his retirement in 1991.Helm Stierlin: Abteilung für Psychoanalytische Grundlagenforschung und Familientherapie
Stierlin familiarized his students with the interdisciplinary discourses and research results in the field of etiology and pathogenesis of schizophrenic diseases. This includes the work of Gregory Bateson, Wilfred Bion, Murray Bowen, Hilde Bruch, Noam Chomsky, Albert Ellis, George L. Engel, Erik H. Erikson, Milton Erickson, Sándor Ferenczi, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, Stanislav Grof, Ronald Grossarth-Maticek, Jay Haley, Heinz Hartmann, Bärbel Inhelder, Don D. Jackson, Edith Jacobson, Otto Kernberg, Melanie Klein, Ronald D. Laing, Alexander Mitscherlich, Harry Stack Sullivan, Norbert Wiener and Lyman Wynne.
Stierlin succeeded in organizing interdisciplinary advanced training congresses in Heidelberg, including , , , molecular biologists, , communication science, computer science, cybernetics, linguists and other interdisciplinary researchers came to exchange ideas with their colleagues and the student body through lectures and seminars. Among many other scientists, the lecturers Fritjof Capra, Heinz von Foerster, Ernst von Glasersfeld, Niklas Luhmann, Francisco Varela, Paul Watzlawick and Joseph Weizenbaum were guests in Heidelberg.
Stierlin was co-founder of the Systemic Family Therapy Program at the Psychotherapeutic Institute Bergerhausen founded by Hans-Werner Gessmann. Since 2002 exists the Helm Stierlin Institute hsi, one of the leading training institutes for systemic therapy and consulting in Germany. Emerging from the Heidelberg School of Systemic Therapy founded by Helm Stierlin in 1975 the hsi in Haus Schmeil, a large old villa located in a park near Heidelberg Castle, has since been training experts in health care, social work, education, management consulting and other human services in the theory and practice of various systemic consulting approaches.Deutsche Gesellschaft für Systemische Therapie: Helm Stierlin Institut e. V. Heidelberg hsi - the institute Fachschaft Psychologie: Helm Stierlin Institut
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