Publications
Publications on
Theme-Centered Interaction (TCI)
The Ruth-Cohn-Institute for TCI – international bundles knowledge and experience around Theme-Centered-Interaction. Our publications are aimed at people in training, practice and science who want to get to know TCI, deepen it or apply it in their field of work.
TCI handbook
This handbook on Theme-Centered-Interaction (TCI) brings together 53 articles on central
concepts, their origins and further development – a compact overview for training, practice and research.
TCI trade journal
The journal is the heart of our publications. It is published twice a year and offers articles on the theory, practice and current developments in TCI. Each issue covers different perspectives:
- Theory: basics and further developments
- Practice: methods, field reports, case studies
- Discussion: Exchange on social issues
- Book reviews: Reviews of relevant new publications
If you are interested, please contact our Main Office:
office@ruth-cohn-institute.org
+49 30 26558750
Specialist articles & original texts
In addition to the magazine, the RCI provides a selection of specialist articles and original texts.
These show the diversity of TCI in research, education, therapy and leadership.
Original texts Ruth Cohn (English)
The following texts were kindly provided by Mary Anne Kübel.
- Table of Contents
- An Approach to psychosomatic Analysis
- Beginnings-Farewells-Beginnings
- The Beyond Withhin
- Be your own chairperson
- From couch to circle to community
- Courage the goal of psychotherapy
- Cut the shoes so the toth will fit
- Group therapist as group educators
- I must do what I want to
- Living learning encounters TCI method
- On Humanistic Principles in psychotherapy and groupleading
- particle waves-what do they mean
- Poems
- Revolutionary Evolution in class rooms TCI
- So I tell you what I need
- Solitude beauty serenity
- The sexual fantasies of
- Theme centered Interaction
Glossary
The glossary is intended as an aid to promote standardized English translations for TCI terminology.
Extended bibliography
Compiled by Matthias and Michaela Scharer.
The following comprehensive TCI bibliography is a work in progress and is constantly being expanded
. Please send references that are not included in the works or journals listed below to matthias.scharer@uibk.ac.at
Excerpt from the bibliography
Cohn, Ruth C. 1975:
From Psychoanalysis to Theme-Centered Interaction, Stuttgart.
Cohn, Ruth C. & Farau, Alfred 1984:
Gelebte Geschichte der Psychotherapie, Stuttgart.
Cohn, Ruth C. & Terfurth, Christina (eds.) 1993:
Living Teaching and Learning. TCI makes school, Stuttgart.
Ewert, Friedrich 2008:
Theme-centered interaction (TCI) and the pedagogical professionalism of teachers. Experiences and reflections, Wiesbaden.
Kanitz, Anja von; Lotz, Walter et al. (eds.) 2015:
Elements of Theme-Centered-Interaction (TCI). Texte zur Aus- und Further Training, Göttingen.
Klein, Irene 2014:
Leading groups without fear. A handbook for group leaders, Munich 2014 (14th edition).
Kroeger, Matthias 1989 (4th edition)
Theme-centered pastoral care, Stuttgart.
Langmaack, Barbara 2001:
Introduction to Theme-Centered-Interaction TCI. Life around the triangle, Weinheim.
Langmaack, Barbara & Braune-Krickau, Michael 1995 (5th edition)
How the group learns to run. Suggestions for planning and leading groups. A practical textbook, Weinheim.
Löhmer, Cornelia & Standhardt, Rüdiger 2006: <
TCI – the art of leading oneself and a group. Introduction to Theme-Centered-Interaction, Stuttgart.
Lotz, Walter & Christel Wagner (eds.) 2007:
Theme-centered interaction in counseling and therapeutic processes, Mainz.
Lotz, Walter 2003:
Social pedagogical action. A foundation for social relationship work with theme-centered interaction, Mainz.
Meyerhuber, Sylke; Reiser, Helmut; Scharer, Matthias (Ed.) 2019
Theme-Centered Interaction (TCI) in Higher Education. A Didactic Approach for Sustainable and Living Learning, Cham.
Ostertag, Margit; Bayer, Michael (eds.), 2022
Theme-centered interaction (TCI) in conversation. Helping to shape society. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Reiser, Helmut & Lotz, Walter 1995:
Theme-Centered Interaction as Pedagogy, Mainz.
Reiser, Helmut 2006:
Psychoanalytic-systemic pedagogy. Education on the basis of Theme-Centered-Interaction. Stuttgart.
Ruber Angelika; Rubner, Eike 2016:
On the way to a functioning group – The design of group processes with theme-centered interaction, Gießen.
Rubner, Eike (ed.) 1992:
Disturbance as a contribution to group events. Understanding the disturbance postulate of TCI in groups, Mainz.
Sauer-Schiffer, Ursula & Ziemons, Michael (eds.) 2006:
In the balance lies the opportunity. Theme-Centered-Interaction in education and counseling. Contributions to counseling in adult education and extracurricular youth education, Münster.
Scharer, Matthias in collaboration with Michaela Scharer 2019 (2nd edition)
Living diversity with courage. The political power of theme-centered interaction (Ruth C. Cohn) today, Ostfildern.
Scharer, Matthias in collaboration with Michaela Scharer
Ruth C. Cohn. A therapist against totalitarian thinking, Ostfildern.
Schneider-Landolf, Mina; Zitterbarth, Walter; Spielmann, Jochen (eds.) 2010 (2nd revised edition):
Handbook of TCI, Göttingen.
Stollberg, Dietrich 1982:
Learning because it’s fun, Munich.
Theme-Centered-Interaction (trade journal) is published twice by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co. KG, Göttingen.