History in therapy. Collective memory and embodiement in Germany after World War II.

The starting point is the transpersonal question of psychology: What is the relevance of a fathers past in relation to own live and therapy? The past as it is in the focus of the following study, is in particular the period of National Socialism in Germany and the question is, how this past impedes on the therapeutic process of the people two or three generations after the end of Fascism. Does the individualistic approach - which therapy considers to be-imply the possibility of putting history on the agenda? The article refers to those studies of Michel Foucault in particular, where autonomy is contrasted with the historicity of the subject, and comes to the conclusion that therapy can very well offer the possibility for a dialog between the subject and history.