Attachment-Dissociation Network: Some thoughts about a Modern Complex Theory

Child and adolescent psychiatrist. He trained at the C.G. Jung Institute Berlin, and until 1995 was medical director of a psy-chotherapeutic clinic (inpatient and day care) for severely disturbed adolescents. He is a training and supervising analyst in Cologne. He also works as an analyst in private practice with adults, children and adolescents. A member of the IAAP executive committee, he lectures in Europe and the US. He has published numerous clinical articles about children and adults and papers about unconscious group phantasies of political groups. He was awarded the 2003 Michael Fordham Prize for the best clinical paper published in the JAP in that year and the Gradiva Award of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP/New York) for the paper ‘Symbolic attitude and reverie. Problems of symbolization in children and adolescents’ (JAP, 2002, 47, 2, 241-57). Address: Dieringhauser Str. 21, D-51109 Köln, Germany. Email: