Foreign Rights 2012

Carl-Auer-Systeme Verlag
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The other side of “health”
Attempts of a systemic illness
and therapy theory
Fritz B. Simon
The other side of “health”
Attempts of a systemic
illness and therapy theory
207 pages, 32 illustrations, paperback,
3rd revised and corrected edition 2012
€ (D) 24,95/€ (A) 25,70
ISBN 978-3-89670-817-5
What is health? What hides behind the definition of
health as “absence of illness”? And is this definition sufficient?
Would illness then be the “absence of health”?
It becomes equally vague when the question of “healing”
and “therapy” arises: everyone seems to know what
it is but no one can explain it.
In this book Fritz B. Simon examines how such ambiguities
affect theory and practice in the health sector
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Systemic Therapy
and how they ultimately affect the handling of so-called
psychosomatic and psychiatric disorders.
Upon close examination of the criteria of the phenomena
“healthy” and “ill”, the author develops a systems
theoretical model of illness and health, formulates a general
theory of therapy and from this derives principles
for interventions in physical, psychological and social
systems.
Fritz B. Simon, MD, Professor of Management and Organization at the Institute for Family Businesses at the University
Witten/Herdecke. Systemic organizational consultant, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and systemic family therapist.
Co-founder of the “Management Zentrum Witten GmbH” and the systemic organizational consultancy “Simon,
Weber and Friends GmbH”. Author and publisher of about 240 scientific articles and 27 books, which were translated
into 13 languages.