remained Open, curious, and in spite of his success in a modest – so you experienced Jürg Willi, if you visited him in his house at Zurich, Gloria street. With the renowned Rowohlt publishing house published the books “The relationship”, “What holds couples?”, or “Co-Evolution”, the Director of the Psychiatric clinic at the University hospital of Zurich, an audience of millions. Jürg Willi is, how only now it became known that already on 8. April at 85 years of age died.
As of 1999, to the retirement of Jürg Willis, the first scientific session on “love” took place, said the Honored: “It seemed as if the love is a little serious issue for the Sciences.” That has changed, is also a merit of the Zurich Professor, the complex and intricate explained in easy-to-understand language and numerous case examples, the living together of couples.
partnership as a dynamic System
As a psychoanalyst Willi also knew the importance of sexuality. So he wrote in the Preface to the paperback edition of 1975, published standard work, “The two relationship”: “disturbances in the sexual place, there is often the nature of the relationship trouble-especially in a condensed and symbolic.” In contrast to the widespread Orthodoxy Jürg Willi was always a bridge Builder and that the theory turned to models that promised, in practice, the most success. “To me, the polemics between representatives of the behavior seems to be – and communication therapy on the one hand and psychoanalysis on the other hand, little fruitful, because, in my opinion, both of these therapy approaches do not exclude each other, are mutually exclusive, but complement!”
Jürg Willi has, similar to the Heidelberg psychologist, Helm Stierlin, the partnership as a dynamic System understood in the exclusive point of view of the individuals only of limited significance. In a couple relationship, what the Individual does or says, a very different meaning and resonance than otherwise. One-sided debt assignments are due to the interaction of little help, noticed, Willi once in a conversation. The increased insight in the interdependence of behavior have led to the fact that couples are nowadays more cautious in the unilateral Claim of Right.
In recent years, Jürg Willi suffered from Parkinson’s disease. His books will remain in the age of Tinder signpost in a cluttered terrain.
(editing Tamedia)
Created: 16.04.2019, 17:58 PM
