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Bert Hellinger

1925 - 2019

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Anton Hellinger (16 December 1925 – 19 September 2019), known as Bert Hellinger, was a German psychotherapist associated with a therapeutic method best known as Family Constellations and Systemic Constellations. In recent years, his work evolved beyond these formats into what he called Movements of the Spirit-Mind. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bert Hellinger has received more than 367,699 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Bert Hellinger is the 617th most popular writer (up from 646th in 2019), the 582nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 614th in 2019) and the 35th most popular German Writer.

Bert Hellinger is most famous for his theory of family constellations. Hellinger's theory is that the family constellation is a map of the inner world of the individual, and that when a person is in therapy, it is the family constellation that needs to be explored. Hellinger's theory is that the family constellation is a map of the inner world of the individual, and that when a person is in therapy, it is the family constellation that needs to be explored.

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  • 21

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  • 1.43

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Notable Works

Love's Own Truths
2001
Rachel Weeping for Her Children. Family Constellations in Israel
Family psychotherapy
2003
Touching Love
1997
Farewell
Psychology
2003
To the heart of the matter: brief therapies
Conduct of life
In his courses and seminars Bert Hellinger works with patients to map out family constellations in a highly concentrated form. This book documents for the first time these highly intensive short-term therapies. These sessions provide insights into the hidden realities and broken relationships revealing new perspectives.
2003
Love's hidden symmetry
Psychology
'Love's Hidden Symmetry' is a book to be read slowly - and then to be read again and again. Here is an opportunity to discover the work of Bert Hellinger, whose generative approach to intervening in systems has already reached across Europe into the hearts and minds of a diverse therapeutic community. A lively blend of narrative, storytelling, transcript material, and poetic imagery is invoked to describe, and to demonstrate, what Hellinger calls 'the orders of love' and how disturbances in the orders of love create a legacy that must be reckoned with for generations to come. But these deeply embedded forces in the family system can be harnessed for healing once they are acknowledged, respected, and gently redirected. Hellinger's basic tool for helping family members restore balance is the use of family constellations. Hellinger, along with coauthors Gunthard Weber and Hunter Beaumont, clarifies how this method can be refined and expanded to galvanize the energy of everyone involved toward a greater sense of well- being. The transcripts included in the book help to capture the extraordinary potential of working appropriately with family constellations. The profound suffering of many of these individuals is more than matched by the opportunity for peace that is revealed in the therapeutic work.
1998

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Over the past year Bert Hellinger has had the most page views in the with 98,972 views, followed by Portuguese (64,362), and English (57,776). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Dutch (649.66%), West Frisian (77.53%), and Simple English (61.27%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Bert Hellinger ranks 617 out of 7,302. Before him are Stieg Larsson, Madame Roland, Ferenc Molnár, Anton Makarenko, Dietrich Eckart, and Olga Tokarczuk. After him are Louisa May Alcott, Émile Verhaeren, Leo Africanus, Tirso de Molina, Alfred Döblin, and J. M. Barrie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Bert Hellinger ranks 39. Before him are Frantz Fanon, Ernst Happel, Paul Mauriat, Peter Brook, Oona O'Neill, and Pierre Boulez. After him are Gerald Durrell, George Kennedy, Sam Peckinpah, Maya Plisetskaya, Zvi Zamir, and Robert Edwards. Among people deceased in 2019, Bert Hellinger ranks 26. Before him are Franco Zeffirelli, Immanuel Wallerstein, Gordon Banks, Beji Caid Essebsi, Zhores Alferov, and João Gilberto. After him are Michel Legrand, Marie Fredriksson, Mariss Jansons, Marie Laforêt, Bibi Andersson, and Doris Day.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Bert Hellinger ranks 582 out of 7,253. Before him are Caroline Augusta of Bavaria (1792), Horst Wessel (1907), Otto Rehhagel (1938), Friedrich List (1789), Dietrich Eckart (1868), and Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1811). After him are Walter Scheel (1919), Roman Herzog (1934), Robert the Strong (900), Widukind (755), Andreas Brehme (1960), and Karl Ziegler (1898).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Bert Hellinger ranks 35. Before him are Patrick Süskind (1949), Klaus Mann (1906), Lion Feuchtwanger (1884), Erich Kästner (1899), Elisabeth of Wied (1843), and Dietrich Eckart (1868). After him are August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767), Ludwig Tieck (1773), Bettina von Arnim (1785), Hugo Ball (1886), Georg Büchner (1813), and Clemens Brentano (1778).

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