Märchenhaft und mörderisch

Ehealltag im Märchen

By (author) Maria Kraft

Book cover: Märchenhaft und mörderisch

Extent: 176 pages

Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

Subjects: Twentieth- & Twenty-First- Century History

Language: German

Paperback (Out of print)

(March 2010)

ISBN: 9783525401378

4.84 x 8.07 inches

Price: $25.00

On back order

Und lebten glücklich bis an ihr Ende – nur im Märchen?


Whether it’s the story of Bluebeard or the Sudanese tale of “Nyanbol” – marriages in fairy tales tend to dissolve even during the honeymoon. The insatiable desires of Ilsebill, the wife of the Grimm Brothers’ fisher, not only disrupt married life, they end up destroying it. Married couples in fairy tales live through the extremes of symbiosis and dissociation, compulsion and freedom. Yet there are examples of successful partnerships – couples that are able to live out their happiness with one another. Maria Kraft shows us on the basis of 12 fairy tales with six different relationship patterns how it all works – and how we can profit therapeutically from such observations.

Dr. Maria Kraft ist Ärztin für Psychotherapeutische Medizin in eigener Praxis in Köln.

  • By (author) Maria Kraft