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Ruth Cohn

TCI was developed by Ruth C. Cohn (1912-2010\) during her stay in exile in the US, 1941 till 1974. She left Berlin in 1933, lived in Zurich, Switzerland and fled to the US in 1941. Starting as psychoanalytical psychotherapist she moved 'From couch to circle to community'. Some of her texts as a psychotherapist and her first publications about what was later called Theme-Centered Interaction are written in English. Later texts , written when she was back in German speaking Europe, are translated from German in English.

Courage. The goal of psychotherapy, 1957
Toespraak gehouden voor vrienden en leden van de Theodor Reik Clinic in 1957, in de tijd dat Ruth Cohn nog vooral psychotherapeute was. Deze tekst is door Matthias en Michaela Scharer aangetroffen in de nalatenschap van Ruth Cohn en heeft Scharer geïsnpireerd bij het schrijven van Pleidooi voor pluraliteit. De politieke kracht van Themagecentreerde Interactie (TGI) in deze tijd.
The Sexual Fantasies of the Psychotherapist and Their Use in Psychotherapy, 1966
The Journal of Sex Research, Vol.2, No. 3, pp. 219-266, November 1966 The Sexual Fantasies of the Psychotherapist and Their Use in Psychotherapy. Ruth C. Cohn - Discussion by Rosalea A. Schönbar
From Couch to Circle to Community, 1969
In H. Ruitenbeek (ed.) (1969) Group-Therapy today. Atherton Press New York.
Prejudices and Eneny Images 1989
Prejuidices and Eneny Images In Ruth C. Cohn, Es geht ums Anteilnehmen ... Persepktiven der Persönlichkeitsentfaltung, pp. 185-188 . Herder, Freibung, Basel, Wien 1989 Translation form Dutch in English by Phien Kuiper with DeepL
The Beyond Within 1972
Ruth Cohn schreef The Beyond Within voor het tijdschrift Voices en vertaalde het zelf in het Duits, Das Innere Jenseits, voor de bundel Von der Psychoanalyse zur Themenzentrierten Interaktion die in 1975 is verschenen. In de Nederlandse editie van deze bundel (1979) is deze tekst niet opgenomen. De vertaling Het hogere Innerlijk is in het Tijdschrift voor Themagecentreerde Interactie verschenen in 2010.
Ruth C. Cohn (1992) Thank you Letter

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Readers

Kuebel, M.A. (ed.), C.Th. Abraham (co-ed.) (2009)
Living Learning. A Reader in Theme-Centred Interaction.
Kottayam.
ISBN 817495104-0. To order: ivo.callens@centerforgenerativeleadership.com. Kinkenberg 21, BE 3798 's Gravenvoeren

Meyerhuber, S., H. Reiser, M. Scharer (ed.) (2019)
Theme-Centered Interaction (TCI) in Higher Education. A Didactic Approach for Sustainable and Living Learning.
Springer Nature Switzerland.
ISBN 987-3-030-01047-8

Schneider-Landolf, Mina, Jochen Spielmann, Walter Zitterbarth (eds.) (2017)
Handbook of Theme-Centered Interaction (TCI). Translated by Joseph Smith.
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen.
ISBN 978-3-666-45190-4

Phien Kuiper (2023) Ruth C. Cohn and her Languages - a Collage

Phien Kuiper (2023) Ruth C. Cohn - Poet. A very Small Anthology

Phien Kuiper (2022) Ruth C. Cohn, Pioneer and Trailblazer

A. Rubner (2014) On the position and (dys)function of the omega role in the dynamics of a group
In: Theme-Centered Interaction /TCI, 1/2014, pp. 53 – 64 After delineating all of the factors that define a group, the concept of "role" and in particular that of the Omega figure are dealt with in detail. The functions that the Omega role assumes in the process of a group are described in order to discuss – with various case vignettes as examples - the possible ways in which the leader can deal with this role.