Therapeutical Biography
This biographic writing course helps you to analyse yourself and to come to grips with the more difficult and depressing facts of your autobiography. It will help you to master the crises and to heal the wounds in your life.
Biographic writing has a therapeutic effect, but it does not replace psychotherapy. It should help you to come to a better understanding of yourself and your life. You may even get a glimpse of the subconscious workings of your mind.
The well-known analyst Gertrude R. Ticho defines self-analysis as an ‘introspection, self-examination and free access to our own unconsciousness.’ In the wake of Freud, Viktor von Weizsäcker wrote: ‘The essence of illness is biographic; that is why the insight into the illness can only be biographic.’ Günter Clauser wrote a textbook of the biographic analysis (1963) to get to the core of disease. If you suffer from an illness, a biographic analysis might help you.
In his highly recommendable book, ‘Self-Analysis – The curative biography, its writing and its effect’ (2nd edition, 1976), Dr. Klaus Thomas writes: “As part of the depth psychology, self-analysis belongs to a healthy sphere of: detailed meditation, recollection, reviewing of your life, conclusions, decisions and resolutions, with insights, clarifications and plans. On the other hand, self-analysis by its nature, also touches on psychotherapy, in the wide range of the forgotten, submerged and sometimes suppressed experiences from long ago with their mental insults and injuries. It uncovers the buried origins of tormenting tensions, neurotic inhibitions, concealed fears, menacing aggressions, troubling malcontent, incomprehensible outbreaks of offensiveness and often contributes remarkably, or even decisively, to the preservation or the restoration of mental health and working ability.”
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Participation Fee
The monthly participation fee is only NZD 46.00 and you can cancel at any time you wish. I dislike small print, long contracts, and hidden costs, therefore, you will find no such terms in any of my contracts!
Alternatively, you can also order an improved half-year course (25 biography worksheets) for NZD 255.00 and the complete course (51 biography worksheets) for NZD 475.00
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| NZD | 46.00 (4 worksheets/ 1 month) |
255.00 (25 worksheets/ 6 months) |
475.00 (51 worksheets/ 1 year ) |
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Take a look at the list of 51 biography worksheets below! You decide on the subscription and of course there is no need for you to pay for this first worksheet. Your participation in this course, which consists of 51 biography worksheets (approximately 300 pages in total) begins with your registration and the receipt of the first monthly payment. You will receive your biography worksheets weekly – generally on Wednesdays – as an email attachement in PDF format.
You can begin the writing course at any time!
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List of 51 biography worksheets
Part I:
Basis of biographic writing
No. 01: Staying alive through your autobiography – and liberating your soul from gloomy memories
No. 02: Introduction to selfanalysis
No. 03: My subjects in my psychological time
No. 04: The art of interpreting your photos
No. 05: Objects reminding you of your past
No. 06: Legal issues of biographic writing
No. 07: The craft of writing – basic rules for an exciting narrative (part 1)
No. 08: The craft of writing – basic rules for an exciting narrative (part 2)
Part II:
The writing process clarifies your mind
No. 09: Parents and grandparents
No. 10: Nomen est omen? My name and its meaning
No. 11: Looking at my childhood, today
No. 12: My fears in life
No. 13: Aggressions
No. 14: Ambivalences – contradictory forces
No. 15: Autonomy and relationships – quest for love and happiness
No. 16: Falling in love, getting engaged, married?
No. 17: Founding a family – the role of the sexes
No. 18: Want of a child meets reality
No. 19: Sense of family and working demands
No. 20: Marriage – crises?
No. 21: People you have loved in the course of your life
No. 22: Guiding-line (Part 1)
No. 23: My unlived life – biography of the imagination
No. 24: Coming and going – life unfolding in the outside and inside world
No. 25: The role of money in my life
No. 26: The enjoyment of life
No. 27: The happiest day of my life – and the blackest one
No. 28: Losses sustained during my life
No. 29: What I am proud of
No. 30: What makes me strong – values and motivation
No. 31: Turning points in my life
No. 32: Spirituality and the sense in life
No. 33: My parents – a look back
No. 34: Guiding-line (Part 2)
No. 35: Shame and humiliation
No. 36: Lies and other sins
No. 37: Guilt and feelings of guilt
No. 38: Punishment and self-punishment
No. 39: Hatred and self-hatred
No. 40: Self-respect and inferiority complex
No. 41: Ambition, power and weakness
No. 42: Physical contact and sexuality
No. 43: Reflections
No. 44: Conformity: yes or no?
No. 45: My repertory of roles
No. 46: Confidential things in my life
No. 47: How I imagine my death
No. 48: If I was born again, then …
No. 49: Beginning and end – writing the preface and epilogue
No. 50: Revision of my manuscript
No. 51: End of course with extended reading list and questionnaire
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Status: 1st of July, 2011
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