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Department of Economics and Social Sciences

Study area:

Health and social services

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ISRV | Institute for Social Medicine, Rehabilitation Knowledge and Health Services Research

TimeTraining / studies / job
1986General higher education entrance qualification
1986-1993Studied psychology, philosophy and sociology at the universities of Mainz, Freiburg and Strasbourg
1993Diploma in Psychology
1993-1995Research assistant at the University of Freiburg; research project: "Individual strategies for the reception of depictions of violence"
1993-1995Psychologist at the clinical-psychological and rehabilitation-psychological outpatient clinic at the University of Freiburg
1996-1997Clinical psychologist at the AOK Clinic Stöckenhöfe, Wittnau: Clinic for Prevention and Rehabilitation
1998-2000Research assistant in the Collaborative Research Centre 541: "Identities and Alterities" at the University of Freiburg
1998-2000Clinical psychologist and psychotherapist at the clinical-psychological and rehabilitation-psychological outpatient clinic at the University of Freiburg
1999Licensed as a psychological psychotherapist (behavioural therapy)
from 2000Licensed as a statutory health insurance practitioner and established in her own practice, supervisor and trainer in systemic counselling, individual and family therapy in Germany and abroad
2001Doctorate (Dr. phil.) at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
2002-2003Teaching Associate in Clinical Psychology/Qualitative Methods at the Five-Star School of Psychology, University of Wales, Bangor, UK
2004Appointment to the professorship "Clinical Psychology" at the FH Nordhausen
2004-2007Dean of Studies of the Health and Social Services degree programme
2007-2008Equal Opportunities Officer of the FH Nordhausen
2007-2010Initiator, founding representative and coordinator of the degree programme "Systemic Counselling", M.A.
2008-2010Vice Dean / Dean of the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences
2010-2013Dean of the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences
2020-2021DAAD - Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico (not accepted due to Covid-19)

Additional professional qualifications

  • Licence to practise as a psychological psychotherapist
  • Specialist certificate; licence for statutory health insurance physicians
  • Systemic individual and family therapist (SG)
  • Systemic supervisor and institutional counsellor (SG)
  • Certificate of the European Association of Psychotherapy (EAP)
  • Teaching therapist and supervisor in the training of psychological psychotherapists and child and adolescent psychotherapists in behavioural therapy (appointed by the Thuringian Ministry of Social Affairs, Family and Health)

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Monographs and Edited Books/ Monographs and Edited Books

Published trade journals/Co-edited Scientific Journals

  • Borcsa, M. & Witzel, P. (2024). Transgenerational aspects after forced migration. Psychotherapy in dialogue, 25 (03), 61 - 64.
  • Borcsa, M., Köllner, V., & Schauenburg, H. (eds.)(2019).trauma sequelae disorders. Psychotherapy in dialogue (PID), 20 (2).
  • Tseliou, E. & Borcsa, M. (Eds.)(2018). Special Section: Discursive Methodologies for Couple and Family Therapy Research. Journal for Marital and Family Therapy, 44 (2).
  • Broda, M. & Borcsa, M. (eds.)(2018). Emotions. Psychotherapy in dialogue, 19 (1).
  • Borcsa, M. & Pomini, V. (Eds.)(2017). Special Issue: Virtual Relationships and Systemic Practices in the Digital Era. Contemporary Family Therapy, 39 (4).
  • Borcsa, M. & Wiegand-Grefe, S. (eds.)(2017). Adolescence. Psychotherapy in dialogue, 18 (2).
  • Schauenburg, H., Wiegand-Grefe, S. & Borcsa, M.(eds.)(2016). Binding. Psychotherapy in dialogue, 17 (3).
  • Borcsa, M. & Flückiger, C. (eds.)(2015). Risks of psychotherapy. Psychotherapy in dialogue, 16 (4).
  • Borcsa, M. & Wittich, A. (eds.)(2015). Supervision. Psychotherapy in dialogue, 16 (1).
  • Broda, M. & Borcsa, M. (eds.)(2014). Obsessive-compulsive disorders. Psychotherapy in dialogue, 15 (2).
  • Borcsa, M. & Stein, B. (eds.)(2013). Resilience and resources. Psychotherapy in dialogue, 14 (1).
  • Borcsa, M. & Wilms, B. (eds.)(2012). Suicide. Psychotherapy in dialogue, 13 (2).
  • Borcsa, M. & Erim, Y. (eds.)(2010). Migration. Psychotherapy in dialogue, 11 (4).
  • Borcsa, M. & Wilms, B. (eds.)(2009). Burn-Out. Psychotherapy in dialogue, 10 (3).

Book chapters

  • Borcsa, M. & Daure, I. (2025). To start with: The 7 A's that characterise the genogram as a systemic tool. In Borcsa, M. & Daure, I. (Eds.). Genograms. A handbook for systemic practice and research (S. 18 - 26). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

  • Borcsa, M. & Heyde, K. (2025). Supervision of multidisciplinary teams in psychiatric care: The use of genograms as a basis for intervention planning. 

  • In Borcsa, M. & Daure, I. (eds.). Genograms. A handbook for systemic practice and research (S. 196 - 206). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. 

  • Borcsa, M. (2023). Familles mondialisées: une lecture systémique. In Borcsa, M. & Daure, I. Mobilités et migrations. Repenser l'approche systémique à l'heure de la mondialisation (p. 13 - 21). Paris: ESF.
  • Borcsa, M. & Winkler, C. (2023). Redéfinir les différences : la transculturalité comme vision pour la thérapie de couple. In Borcsa, M. & Daure, I. Mobilités et migrations. Repenser l'approche systémique à l'heure de la mondialisation (p. 33 - 41). Paris: ESF.
  • Borcsa, M. & Wetzel, D. (2023). Transmission familiale entre ambivalence et résilience: le travail intergénérationnel de mémoire après une migration forcée. In Borcsa, M. & Daure, I. Mobilités et migrations. Repenser l'approche systémique à l'heure de la mondialisation (p. 107 - 115). Paris: ESF.
  • Borcsa, M. & Winkler, C. (2023). "What if you said this in English?" Le multilinguisme comme ressource dans le processus thérapeutique. In Borcsa, M. & Daure, I. Mobilités et migrations. Repenser l'approche systémique à l'heure de la mondialisation (p. 125 - 133). Paris: ESF.
  • Borcsa, M., Pantelidou, S. & Pomini, V. (2023). Multidisciplinarité et approche sociopsychiatrique : la supervision systémique avec les familles multiculturelles à problèmes multiples. In Borcsa, M. & Daure, I.Mobilités et migrations. Repenser l'approche systémique à l'heure de la mondialisation (p. 147 - 157). Paris: ESF.
  • Borcsa, M. & Hille, J. (2022). Il Genogramma 4.0: famiglie globalizzate e relazioni virtuali. In Daure, I. & Borcsa, M. (a cura di) II Genogramma nella pratica sistemica contemporanea. Sviluppi e prospettive (p. 127 - 139). Milan: Franco Angeli.
  • Hille, J., Gdowska, K., Kansy, M. & Borcsa M. (2022). "Yes, because I generally already live a settled life" - Ambiguity(s) in narratives of families with a history of displacement. In P. Jakob, M. Borcsa, J. Olthof, & A. von Schlippe (Eds.). Manual Narrative Practice (p. 468 - 481) Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
  • Borcsa, M., Skyba, D., Hille, J. & Dathe, C. (2022). The didactic system as a balancing system - teaching and testing solution-oriented counselling. In Lindemann, H. & Trumpa, S. (Eds.). University teaching - systemic? Theoretical and practical impulses for didactics and methodology (S. 235-246). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
  • Borcsa, M. & Pomini, V. (2021). Las prácticas digitales en psicoterapia sistémica: tendencias, ventajas y dificultades. In: Manfrida, G., Albertini, V., & Eisenberg, E. (Eds. ). Psicoterapia online. Recursos tecnologicos en la clinica psicologica (pp. 49-71). Madrid: Ediciones Morata.
  • Borcsa, M., Willig, C. & Schröer-Werner, S. (2021). Introduction: Qualitative Research in Mental Health - Innovation and Collaboration. In Borcsa, M. & Willig, C. (Eds.) Qualitative Research Methods in Mental Health. Innovative and Collaborative Approaches (pp. 1-11). Cham, CH: Springer International.
  • Borcsa, M. & Janusz, B. (2021). Interpersonal Process Recall in Systemic Research: Investigating Couple Therapists' Personal and Professional Selves. In Borcsa, M. & Willig, C. (Eds.) Qualitative Research Methods in Mental Health. Innovative and Collaborative Approaches (pp. 167-191). Cham, CH: Springer International.
  • Willig, C. & Borcsa, M. (2021). Conclusion: Qualitative Research in Mental Health: Reflections on Research Questions, Methods and Knowledge. In Borcsa, M. & Willig, C. (Eds.) Qualitative Research Methods in Mental Health. Innovative and Collaborative Approaches (pp. 251-261). Cham, CH: Springer International.
  • Borcsa, M. & Pomini, V. (2020). La diffusione delle pratiche digitali nella psicoterapia sistemica: lo stato dell'arte in Europa e oltre. In Manfrida, G. Albertini, V. & Eisenberg, E. (ed.) La clinica e il web.Risorse tecnologiche e comunicazione psicoterepeutica online (pp. 37-60). Milano: FrancoAngeli.
  • Borcsa, M. & Hille, J. (2020). Le génogramme 4.0 : familles globalisées et relations virtuelles. Dans: Daure, I. & Borcsa, M. (dir.). Les génogrammes d'aujourd'hui : La clinique systémique en mouvement (p. 173-184). Paris : ESF sciences humaines.
  • Borcsa, M. & Nikendei, C. (2020). Psychotherapy after flight and displacement. In Senf, W., Broda, M., Voos, D. & Neher, M. (Eds.) The practice of psychotherapy. An integrative textbook. (S. 695-700). Stuttgart: Thieme.
  • Borcsa, M., Lebow J.L., Singh, R., Larner, G. & Messent, P. (2020). Publication in Family Therapy Journals: Family Process, Journal of Family Therapy, and Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy - A Discussion with Editors. In Ochs, M., Borcsa, M. & Schweitzer, J. (Eds.). Systemic Research in Individual, Couple and Family Therapy and Counselling (EFTA Book Series, Volume 4). (pp. 417-430). Cham, CH: Springer International.
  • Nyman-Salonen, P., Vall, B., Laitila, A., Borcsa, M., Karvonen, A., Kykyri, V-L., Kaartinen, J., Penttonen, M., Tsatsishvili, V. & Seikkula, J. (2020). Significant moments in a couple therapy session: Towards the integration of different modalities of analysis. In Ochs, M., Borcsa, M. & Schweitzer, J. (Eds.). Systemic Research in Individual, Couple and Family Therapy and Counselling (EFTA Book Series, Volume 4). (pp. 55-73). Cham, CH: Springer International.
  • Borcsa, M. (2019). Questioning the self-evident - when the foreign comes into view. In Rufer. M. & Flückiger, Ch. (eds.) Essentials of psychotherapy. Practice and research in discourse.  (S. 125-130). Bern, Ch: Hogrefe.
  • Borcsa, M. & Charalabaki, K. (2016). Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis: An opening speech to create dialogue. Systemic Thinking & Psychotherapy - The Hellenic Systemic Thinking and Family Therapy Association (HESTAFTA) Electronic Journalissue 9, also published in:
    Charalabaki, K., Borcsa, M. & Thanopoulou, K. (Eds.) (2018), Family Therapy Unit and Attica Psychiatric Hospital: "Recollections and reflections". Athens, Greece: Korontzis. (in Greek).
  • Borcsa, M. & Charalabaki, K. (2016). Families in a Context of Economic and Social Destabilisation: A Meta-Modern Greek Drama.Systemic Thinking & Psychotherapy -The Hellenic Systemic Thinking and Family Therapy Association (HESTAFTA) Electronic Journal, issue 8.
    Also published in:
    Charalabaki, K., Borcsa, M. & Thanopoulou, K. (Eds.) (2018), Family Therapy Unit and Attica Psychiatric Hospital: "Recollections and reflections". Athens, Greece: Korontzis. (in Greek).
  • Borcsa, M. & Pomini, V. (2018). Couple and Family Therapy in the Digital Era. In: Lebow, J., Chambers, A. & Breunlin, D.C. (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy. Springer International.
  • Borcsa. M. (2017). Families. In Borcsa, M. & Nikendei, C. (Eds.) Psychotherapy after flight and displacement. A practice-orientated and interprofessional perspective on helping refugees (S.142-150). Stuttgart: Thieme.
  • Bulgay, B. & Borcsa, M. (2017). Self-care and supervision. In Borcsa, M. & Nikendei, C. (eds.) Psychotherapy after flight and displacement. A practice-orientated and interprofessional perspective on helping refugees (S. 181-187). Stuttgart: Thieme.
  • Borcsa, M. (2017). European Family Therapy Association. In: Lebow, J., Chambers, A. & Breunlin, D.C. (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy. Springer International.
  • Borcsa, M. & Hille, J. (2016). Diagnostics in systemic couple and family therapy. In R.D. Stieglitz & H.J. Freyberger (eds.) Diagnostics in psychotherapy (S. 86-99). Stuttgart: Kohlhammer.
  • Borcsa, M. & Stratton, P. (2016). From Origins and Originality - Family Therapy and the European Idea. In M. Borcsa & P. Stratton (Eds.) Origins and Originality in Family Therapy and Systemic Practice. (pp. 1-10). Cham, CH: Springer International.
  • Borcsa, M. & Hille, J. (2016). Virtual Relations and Globalised Families - the Genogram 4.0 Interview. In M. Borcsa & P. Stratton (Eds.) Origins and Originality in Family Therapy and Systemic Practice (pp. 215-234). Cham, CH: Springer International.
  • Borcsa, M. & Stratton, P. (2016). Innovations in Family Therapy and Systemic Practice. In M. Borcsa & P. Stratton (Eds.) Origins and Originality in Family Therapy and Systemic Practice. (pp. 235-245). Cham, CH: Springer International.
  • Rober, P. & Borcsa, M. (2016). The Challenge: Tailoring Qualitative Process Research Methods for the Study of Marital and Family Therapeutic Sessions. In M. Borcsa & P. Rober (Eds.) Research Perspectives in Couple Therapy. Discursive Qualitative Methods (pp. 1-9). Cham, CH: Springer International.
  • Borcsa, M. (2016). Latent Meaning Structures in Couple Relations: Introducing Objective Hermeneutics into Systemic Therapy Research. In M. Borcsa & P. Rober (Eds.) Research Perspectives in Couple Therapy. Discursive Qualitative Methods (pp. 105-123). Cham, CH: Springer International.
  • Borcsa, M. & Rober, P. (2016). About Complexity, Difference, and Process: Towards Integration and Temporary Closure. In M. Borcsa & P. Rober (Eds.) Research Perspectives in Couple Therapy. Discursive Qualitative Methods (pp. 167-172). Cham, CH: Springer International.
  • Borcsa, M. (2013). Reconstruction of life narratives. In Senf, W., Broda, M. & Wilms, B. (eds.) Techniques of psychotherapy. A cross-method compendium (S. 89-92). Stuttgart: Thieme.
  • Borcsa, M. (2004). Self-thematisation as alterity between normalisation and individualisation: Birthblindness in the media age. In J. Michael & M.K. Schäffauer (eds.), Mass media and alterity (S. 198-210). Frankfurt/Main: Vervuert.
  • Borcsa, M. & Charlton, M. (1999). Media violence and media education. How adolescents handle action films. In P. Löhr & M. Meyer (Eds.) Children, Television and the New Media. A Reader of Research and Documentation in Germany (pp. 294-300). Luton, UK: University of Luton Press.
  • Borcsa, M. (1999). The function of the mass media as intermediary agencies of meaning. Explication in the case of blindness and media use. In: U. Hasebrink & P. Rössler (eds.) Audience ties. Media reception between individualisation and integration (S. 137-146). Munich: Verlag Reinhard Fischer.
  • Gander, H.-H. & Borcsa, M. (1998). Article: Phenomenology. In S. Grubitzsch & K. Weber (Eds.) Basic Psychological Terms. A handbook (S. 421-422). Reinbek near Hamburg: Rororo.
  • Borcsa, M. (1998). Article: Desire. In S. Grubitzsch & K. Weber (Eds.): Basic Psychological Terms. A handbook (S. 64-65). Reinbek near Hamburg: Rororo.
  • Charlton, M. & Borcsa, M. (1997). Thematic bias, involvement and forms of identification. Discussion of a model of active spectatorship based on an empirical example. In M. Charlton & S. Schneider (Eds.): Reception research. Theories and studies on dealing with mass media (S. 254-267). Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag.

Articles in trade journals/Journal Articles

  • Borcsa, M. (2022). Les effets des technologies d'information et de communication sur les relations de couple. Le Journal des Psychologues, May 2022, N°397, 16-19.
  • Borcsa, M., Hille, J., Skyba, D. & Dathe, C. (2021). The Pedagogical System as an Assessment System - Teaching and Evaluating Solution-Focused Counselling in a University Context. Feedback. Journal of the Family Therapy Association of Ireland. Special Issue: Training and Education in Family Therapy and Systemic Practice. Summer 2021, 5-16.
  • Borcsa, M., Pomini, V. & Saint-Mont, U. (2021). Digital systemic practices in Europe: a survey before the Covid-19 pandemic. Journal of Family Therapy, 43 (1), 4-26. 
  • Borcsa, M. (2021). Digitalisation as a therapeutic resource in transnational family relationships. Psychotherapy in dialogue, 22, (1), 81-84.
  • Dehmel, J. & Borcsa, M. (2020). Therapeutic relationships with children and adolescents. What influence does the therapeutic specialisation have on the relationship concepts of prospective and practising psychotherapists?Psychotherapists' Journal, 2, 106-113.
  • Vall, B., Laitila, A., Borcsa, M., Kykyri, V.L., Karvonen, A., Kaartinen, J., Penttonen, M. & Seikkula, J. (2018).Entrevistas de recuerdo estimulado: cómo la entrevista de investigación puede contribuir a nuevas prácticas terapéuticas? Revista Argentina de Clínica Psicológica Vol. XXVII, N°2, 274-283.
  • Vall, B., Laitila, A., Borcsa, M., Kykyri, V.L., Karvonen, A., Kaartinen, J., Penttonen, M. & Seikkula, J. (2018). Stimulated Recall Interviews: How can the research interview contribute to new therapeutic practices? Revista Argentina de Clinica Psicologica. Vol. XXVII, N°2, 284-293.
  • Tseliou, E. & Borcsa, M. (2018). Discursive Methodologies for Couple and Family Therapy Research. Editorial to Special Section. Journal for Marital and Family Therapy.
  • Borcsa, M. & Pomini, V. (2017). Virtual Relationships and Systemic Practices in the Digital Era. Contemporary Family Therapy, 39 (4), 239-248.
  • Borcsa, M. & Charalabaki, K. (2016). Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis: An opening speech to create dialogue. Systemic Thinking & Psychotherapy - The Hellenic Systemic Thinking and Family Therapy Association (HESTAFTA) Electronic Journal, issue 9.
  • Borcsa, M. (2016). Systemic (family) therapy and public health systems in Europe. An overview. Family dynamics, 41 (1), 24-33.
  • Borcsa, M., Charalabaki, K. & Theodoraki, K. (2016). Families in the context of economic and social destabilisation: A metamodern Greek drama. Systems 30 (1), 88-99.
  • Borcsa, M. & Charalabaki, K. (2016). Families in a Context of Economic and Social Destabilisation: A Meta-Modern Greek Drama. Systemic Thinking & Psychotherapy -The Hellenic Systemic Thinking and Family Therapy Association (HESTAFTA) Electronic Journal, issue 8.
  • Borcsa, M., Hille, J., Borbe, C. & Skyba, D. (2014). Couples and their therapists: The relational mind project. In: Stein, B. & Wilms, B. (eds.). Couple therapy. Psychotherapy in dialogue, 15 (4), 38-41.
  • Borcsa, M., Hanks, H. & Vetere, A. (2013). The Development of Family Therapy and Systemic Practice in Europe: Some Reflections and Concerns. Contemporary Family Therapy, 35 (2), 342-348.
  • Borcsa, M. & Schelenhaus, S. (2011). The questionnaire to assess the effectiveness of systemic therapy SCORE 15. A workshop report. Systems 25 (2), 137-140.
  • Borcsa, M. (2010). Culture, self and mental health. In: Borcsa, M. & Erim, Y. (eds.) Issue: Migration. Psychotherapy in dialogue, 11 (4), 290-293.
  • Borcsa, M. (2010). Systemic approaches from a European perspective. In: Schweitzer, J., Retzlaff, R. & Wilms, B. (eds.) Issue: Family therapy. Psychotherapy in dialogue, 11 (3), 262-263.
  • Borcsa, M., Kämmerer, A., Köllner, V., Lieb, H., Schauenburg, H., v. Schlippe, A., Senf, W. Wilms, B., Schweitzer, J. & Broda, M. (2010). The state of integration in psychotherapy. In: Broda, M., Schweitzer, J. & Senf, W. (eds.) Theme issue: Integration in psychotherapy. Psychotherapy in dialogue, 11 (1), 3-11.
  • Borcsa, M. (2001). Bodily otherness and the social construction of alterity: Birth blindness in the media age. Psychology & social criticism, 25 (2), 125-142.
  • Borcsa, M. & Charlton, M. (1995). Media violence and media education. How young people deal with action films. Televizion, 8 (2), 36-39.
  • Borcsa, M. (1994). Public partnership(s): On "family therapy" in broadcasting. A linguistic-pragmatic study. Journal for Family Research, 6, special issue 1, 197-204.

Miscellaneous/ Other Publications

  • Borcsa, M. (2019). Dear Friedrich....In Schenkel, E. & Hamouda, F. (eds.) 101 letters to Friedrich Nietzsche on his 175th birthday (S. 326-328). Leipzig: Edition Hamouda.
  • Borcsa, M. (2017) Foreword. In Tilden, T. & Wampold, B.E. (Eds.). Routine Outcome Monitoring in Couple and Family Therapy. The Empirically Informed Therapist (EFTA Book Series Volume 2). Cham, CH: Springer International.
  • Wiegand-Grefe, S. & Borcsa, M. (2017). Editorial: Everything burns - Everything will be fine? In Borcsa, M. & Wiegand-Grefe, S. (eds.) Adolescence. Psychotherapy in dialogue, 18 (2), 12-13.
  • Borcsa, M. & Wiegand-Grefe, S. (2017). Resume: New roles, new risks. In Borcsa, M. & Wiegand-Grefe, S. (eds.) Adolescence. Psychotherapy in dialogue, 18 (2), 112-113.
  • Schauenburg, H., Wiegand-Grefe, S. & Borcsa, M. (2016). Editorial: Attachment is more.... In Schauenburg, H., Wiegand-Grefe, S. & Borcsa, M. (eds.) Attachment. Psychotherapy in dialogue, 17 (3), 14-15.
  • Wiegand-Grefe, S., Schauenburg, H. & Borcsa, M. (2016). Resume: Old wine in new bottles? In Schauenburg, H., Wiegand-Grefe, S. & Borcsa, M. (eds.) Bindung. Psychotherapy in dialogue, 17 (3), 104-105.
  • Borcsa, M. & Flückiger, C. (2015). Editorial: No effect without side effect ... . In Borcsa, M. & Flückiger, C. (eds.) Risks of psychotherapy. Psychotherapy in dialogue, 16 (4), 12-13.
  • Borcsa, M. (2015). Risks and side effects of psychotherapy - conflicts, pain and hard work (interview). In Borcsa, M. & Flückiger, C. (eds.) Risks of psychotherapy. Psychotherapy in dialogue, 16 (4), 86-87.
  • Flückiger, C. & Borcsa M. (2015). Resume: Looking the dragon in the throat. In Borcsa, M. & Flückiger, C. (eds.) Risks of psychotherapy. Psychotherapy in dialogue, 16 (4), 96-97.
  • Borcsa, M. & Wittich, A. (2015). Editorial: I see something you don't see... . In Borcsa, M. & Wittich, A. (eds.) Supervision. Psychotherapy in dialogue, 16 (1), 12-13.
  • Wittich, A. & Borcsa, M. (2015). Resume: Young, multifaceted and with perspective. In Borcsa, M. & Wittich, A. (eds.) Supervision. Psychotherapy in dialogue, 16 (1): 104-105.
  • Borcsa, M. & Broda, M. (2014). Editorial: The Ariadne's thread. In Broda, M. & Borcsa, M. (Eds.) Obsessive-compulsive disorders. Psychotherapy in dialogue, 15 (2), 12-13.
  • Borcsa, M. (2014). Obsessive-compulsive disorder - and the longing for freedom. "The disorder has upset my entire life plan." (Interview) In Broda, M. & Borcsa, M. (eds.) Obsessive-compulsive disorders. Psychotherapy in dialogue, 15 (2), 94-96.
  • Broda, M. & Borcsa, M. (2014). Resume: Growing understanding with expanded possibilities for action. In Broda, M. & Borcsa, M. (eds.) Obsessive-compulsive disorders. Psychotherapy in dialogue, 15 (2), 104-105.
  • Borcsa, M. & Stein, B. (2013). Editorial: Hans in Luck or Sisyphus was only human. In: Borcsa, M. & Stein, B. (eds.) Resilience and resources. Psychotherapy in dialogue, 14 (1), 12-13.
  • Stein, B. & Borcsa, M. (2013). Resume: Resilience and resources - more than just buzzwords. In: Borcsa, M. & Stein, B. (eds.) Resilience and resources. Psychotherapy in dialogue, 14 (1), 94-95.
  • Borcsa, M. & Wilms, B. (2012). Editorial: Suicide and suicidality as an anthropological possibility and pathological phenomenon. In: Borcsa, M. & Wilms B. (eds.) Suicide. Psychotherapy in dialogue, 13 (2), 1.
  • Borcsa, M. & Wilms, B. (2012). "There are suicidal desires that cannot be eliminated by pathologising them. Michael de Ridder in conversation. In: Borcsa, M. & Wilms, B. (eds.) Suicide. Psychotherapy in dialogue, 13 (2), 55-60.
  • Borcsa, M. (2012). "That unites us, this fundamental question: Could something have been done differently?" A patient and a psychiatrist in conversation. (Interview) In: Borcsa, M. & Wilms, B. (eds.) Suicide. Psychotherapy in dialogue, 13 (2), 61-66.
  • Wilms, B. & Borcsa, M. (2012). Resume: Who has it in their hands? In: Borcsa, M. & Wilms, B. (eds.) Suicide. Psychotherapy in dialogue, 13 (2), 78.
  • Borcsa, Maria (2011). We recommend ... In: Eichenberg, C., Stein, B. & Schauenburg, H.(eds.) Internet in Psychotherapy and Counselling. Psychotherapy in dialogue, 12 (2) 183.
  • Borcsa, M. & Erim, Y. (2010). Editorial: Guidelines instead of guiding culture. In: Borcsa, M. & Erim, Y. (eds.) Migration. Psychotherapy in dialogue, 11 (4), 289-290.
  • Erim, Y. & Borcsa, M. (2010). Resume: Intercultural Psychotherapy - From Polarisation to Sensitisation. In Borcsa, M. & Erim, Y. (eds.) Migration. Psychotherapy in dialogue, 11 (4), 357.
  • Wilms, B. & Borcsa, M. (2009). Editorial: Fashion, quirk, or...? In Borcsa, M. & Wilms, B. (eds.) Burn-Out. Psychotherapy in dialogue, 10 (3), 199-200.
  • Hirschhausen, E. v., Wilms, B. & Borcsa, M. (2009). "Good evening, I am a doctor and I will treat you well ..." The popularisation of psychotherapeutic knowledge as a gap in the market (Interview). In: Borcsa, M. & Wilms, B. (eds.) Issue: Burnout: Psychotherapy in dialogue, 10 (3), 263-265.
  • Borcsa, M. & Wilms, B. (2009). Resume: "....and all questions open?" In Borcsa, M. & Wilms, B. (eds.) Burn-Out. Psychotherapy in dialogue, 10 (3), 266-267.
  • Stegie, R. & Borcsa, M. (Ed.)(1992). Department of Rehabilitation Psychology. Research - Teaching - Care. Reporting period 1990-1992. University of Freiburg i. Brsg., Research Report No. 83, Institute of Psychology, University of Freiburg. Special Subject Collection Psychology at the Saarbrücken University Library.

Transgenerational effects on families after forced migration. Narratives that promote resilience (Part 2)

07/2022 – 07/2025

Research question:

The transnational research project focusses on the transgenerational effects of forced migration in Russian and Ukrainian families as a result of the armed conflict in Ukraine.

Third-party funder:

Transgenerational effects on families after forced migration. What can be learnt from history(ies)? (Part 1)

10/2020 - 12/2025

Research question:

The international and interdisciplinary research project (medicine, psychology, health and social sciences, ethnography, history) deals with the forced migration of German and Polish families triggered by the Second World War.

Third-party funder: German Society for Systemic Therapy, Counselling and Family Therapy; ISRV

  • QRMH10 2025: Qualitative Research in Mental Health: Shared Journeys in a Troubled World: Interweaving Mental Health and Personal Experience; May 21-23, 2025, Budapest, Hungary. https://qrmh10.com
  • QRMH9 2023: Qualitative Research in Mental Health: Building Bridges in Times of Uncertainty: The Role of Qualitative Research in Mental Health and Well-being (Chairs: Angela Abela, Maria Borcsa, Zsuzsa Kaló & Viola Sallay); Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary http://qrmh9.com/
  • QRMH8 2020: Qualitative Research in Mental Health: Trajectories Towards a New Era (Chairs: Angela Abela & Maria Borcsa); University of Malta/Online 
  • QRMH7 2018: Qualitative Research in Mental Health: Rising to a Global Challenge (Chairs: Maria Borcsa & Sebastian Schröer); Protestant University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Germany
  • EFTA 2016: Origins and Originality in Family Therapy and Systemic Practice (Chair: Maria Borcsa); Athens, Greece.  https://europeanfamilytherapy.eu/about-efta/efta-community/
  • Scientific reviewer at the accreditation, certification and quality assurance institute ACQUIN (since 2006)
  • Academic reviewer at the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD (since 2010)

Vorträge und Tagungsbeiträge/ Conference Papers and Contributions

  • Borcsa, M. (2023). "Narrating what? I already told you that we were at the epicentre of all the evil. So, there was nothing to tell the children. They saw and heard everything." Escaping from Mariupol, Ukraine. A family systems research. Keynote presentation (online) at IX Konferencja Psychologii Narracyjnej: "Historie, Które Łączą, Historie, Które Dzielą", 21 - 23 September 2023, Krakow, Poland.
  • Borcsa, M. & Daure, I. (2023). Mobilité, migration, mondialisation: Nouvelles normalités dans le travail systémique. Presentation at the International Family Therapy Conference: The Road that Connects Individual and Social Resources. 06-08 July 2023, Assisi, Italy. 
  • Borcsa, M. & Pomini, V. (2022). Virtual relations and systemic therapy. Towards a third-order cybernetics. Keynote presentation at the 11th Conference of the European Familiy Therapy Association: Systemic Resonances and Interferences. 07-10 September 2022Ljubljana, Slovenia.
  • Borcsa, M., Erzar, T., Toth, E. & Možina, K. (2022). Invited Round Table - To free the next generation: From genes to society - intergenerational transmission and possible resolution of trauma. 11th Conference of the European Familiy Therapy Association: Systemic Resonances And Interferences. 07-10 September 2022, Ljubljana, Slovenia.  
  • Borcsa, Maria; Le Moign, Raymond; Simeone, Arnaud & Lévy, Patrick (Modérateur) (2022): Table ronde - La santé publique au service du patient, regards croisés. Dialogues franco-allemands pour l'Europe. Rencontre organisée dans le cadre de la Présidence française du Conseil de l'Union européenne en 2022. 11-12 May 2022, Université Lumière Lyon, France.
  • Borcsa, M. (2021). Family and culture in times of globalisation. Mobility, migration and virtual relations. Key note presentation at the Inaugural Meeting of the Family and Culture Special Interest Group, World Association of Cultural Psychiatry (WACP), 30 September 2021 (online).
  • Borcsa, M. (2021) Globalised families between diaspora and cosmopolitism - challenging the grand narrative of national belonging. Presentación invitada XVII Congresso RELATES (Red Europea y Latinoamericana de Escuelas Systemicas): Contarla para vivir: Narración y otros enfoques en la psicoterapia relacional sistémica. 23 - 26 June 2021, virtual.
  • Borcsa, M. (2019). Virtual Relations and Globalised Families. Invited dialogue: Paolo Bertrando & Maria Borcsa (Chair: Valerie O'Brien). 10th Conference of the European Family Therapy Association: Visible and Invisible: Bordering Change in Systemic Family Therapy, 11-14 September 2019, Naples, Italy.
  • Borcsa, M. (2019). Les écrans thérapeutiques. Journées d'étude et de formation Réseau & Famille. "Ados.com : le goût du risque, jusqu'où et comment le contenir?"23-24 May 2019, Avignon, France.
  • Borcsa, M. (2019). Do we meet in one world? Interviewing clients and therapists about their experiences in couple therapy sessions. Congress ISCRA "Ricerca Formazione, relazioni interpersonali"18 May 2019, Modena, Italy.
  • Borcsa, M. (2019). Do we meet in one world? Interviewing clients and therapists about their experiences in couple therapy sessions. Congress EFTA-TIC/IRIS "La Ricerca in Terapia Familiare: Progetti e Risultanze a Confronto"17 May 2019, Milan, Italy.
  • Borcsa, M. (2018). Globalised Families. Keynote presentation at the Bulgarian Conference in Systemic Family Therapy: "20 Years Later: Local and Global - Mutual Contexts".15-16 December 2018, Sofia, Bulgaria.
  • Borcsa, M. (2018). Globalised Families. Keynote presentation at the 13º Congresso Brasileiro de Terapia Familiar "Interação Entre Terapeutas, Práticas e Famílias". 02-04 August 2018, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  • Borcsa, M. & Ochs, M. (2018). Perspectives de la recherche en thérapie familiale. Atelier presenté au congrès EFTA-CIM/IAC " Pratiques actuelles aves les familles ". 31 May - 2 June 2018, Toulouse, France.
  • Borcsa, M. (2017). Virtual Relations and Globalised Families - the Genogram 4.0 Interview. Keynote presentation at the Scientific Conference: "The Family Therapy Unit of the Psychiatric Hospital of Athens: 20+3 Years - What remains, what changed?" 24.11.2017, Athens, Greece.
  • Borcsa, M. (2017). Emotions in systemic theory and practice - is it all a question of regulation? Lecture at the 9th Hessian Psychotherapists' Day "Emotions - Emotions in Psychotherapy". 21.-22.04.2017, Frankfurt/Main.
  • Borcsa, M. (2017). "It was just like really being able to observe the whole" - Stimulated Recall Interviews between research and clinical intervention. Paper presented in the symposium: Doing relational research on embodiment in therapeutic dialogues (Chairs: Maria Borcsa & Jaakko Seikkula). International Systemic Research Conference "Linking Systemic Research and Practice"University of Heidelberg, 08-11 March 2017, Heidelberg.
  • Borcsa, M. (2016). Systemic Therapy in National Health Care Systems in Europe. Paper presented at the Scientific Conference "Family Therapy in Latvia, Baltic States and Europe". 19.05.2016, Riga, Latvia.
  • Borcsa, M. (2016). Families in the context of economic and social destabilisation: A meta-modern Greek drama. Conversation with Katia Charalabaki. 23rd Annual Scientific Conference of the Systemic Society "All real life is encounter: Systemic encounters with science", 03-05 March 2016, Dresden.
  • Borcsa, M., Borst, U., Keupp, H., Kriz, J. & Simon, F. (2016). Who determines the boundaries of sick and normal? Panel discussion as part of the symposium "The power of doubt - systemic practice in times of "certain" knowledge". 13-15 October 2016, Heidelberg.
  • Borcsa, M. (2015). Training systemic therapists for the 21st century - virtual intimacies and world families in a globalised world. Keynote and workshop presented at 1st Quest International Conference in partnership with ATF-PF "The systemic couple and family psychotherapy practice and training process in the 21st century. A dialogue between classical and modern approaches, models and trends". 02.04.2015, Cluj, Romania.
  • Borcsa, M. (2015). Cosmopolitism as a new virtue of systemic therapists? Keynote presentation at the International conference S.I.P.P.R - Società Italiana di Psicologia e Psicoterapia Relazionale "Processi clinici tra vizi e virtù di pazienti e terapeuti: temi universali che ricorrono in psicoterapia". 27-28 March 2015, Caserta, Italia.
  • Bassoli, F. & Borcsa, M. (2014). I modelli che curano tra narrativa e solution focused. Convegno Internazionale di Società Italiana di Ricerca e Terapia Sistemica (S.I.R.T.S) "Il ruolo della famiglia nel trattamento dei disturbi alimentary". 20-21 June 2014, Misano Adriatico, Italia.
  • Borcsa, M., Laitila, A. Päivinen H., Holma J., Seikkula, J., Rober, P., & Wahlström, J. (EFTRG - European Family Therapy Research Group) (2014). Qualitative Research in Couple and Family Therapy: Multiple Perspectives on the Therapeutic Process. Joint presentation at the 1st European Conference on Systemic Research in Therapy, Education and Organisational Development "Linking systemic practice and systemic research", 06-08 March 2014, Heidelberg.
  • Borcsa, M. (2014). Systemic Therapy and National Health Care Systems in Europe. Keynote presentation at the 1st European Conference on Systemic Research in Therapy, Education and Organisational Development "Linking systemic practice and systemic research", 06-08 March 2014, Heidelberg.
  • Borcsa, M. (2013). Empowerment in health promotion. Keynote speech at the Symposium "Empowerment in psychiatry - but the right way!" Insights e.V., 22 November 2013, Altenburg.
  • Bassler, M., Borcsa, M., Geyer, M., Lenz, A. & Steffens, M. (2013). Panel discussion on depression - family and work. Opening symposium of the ISRV - Institute for Social Medicine, Rehabilitation Sciences and Health Services Research "Depression - Family and Work" 16 October 2013, Nordhausen.
  • Borcsa, M. (2013). Depression in the family context. Lecture at the specialist forum "Lifeworld-orientated social work with mentally ill people - from childhood to working life". Trägerwerk Soziale Dienste Sachsen-Anhalt, 28 June 2013, Sangerhausen.
  • Borcsa, M. (2013). Empowerment: Commitment, solidarity and ritual - what to do against fear and powerlessness! Lecture as part of the 63rd Lindau Psychotherapy Weeks "Facing new uncertainties". 19.04.2013, Lindau.
  • Borcsa, M. (2013). Systemic counselling - Therapeutic expertise for social work in healthcare. Lecture at the Annual Conference of the Working Group of Chief Physicians of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Clinics at General Hospitals in Germany (ACKPA), 08-10 November 2012, Nordhausen.
  • Borcsa, M. (2013). Chair and Discussant of the Sub-Plenary: Systemic Interventions and the Medical Model: Exclusion or Integration? Speakers: Jaakko Seikkula (Finland), Jacques Miermont (France), Juan Luis Linares (Spain.) 8th Congress of the European Family Therapy Association "Opportunities in a Time of Crisis: The Role of the Family". 24-27 October 2013, Istanbul, Turkey.
  • Borcsa, M. (2012). Systemic therapy: state(-points) of the art. Lecture at the neuropsychiatric training programme at Südharz-Krankenhaus Nordhausen gGmbHClinic for Neurology, Clinic for Psychiatry, Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 28 March 2012, Nordhausen.
  • Borcsa, M. (2012). Objective Hermeneutics' Sequential Analysis of Systemic/Family Therapy. Paper presented at the international symposium "Analyzing interactions-in-dialogue". University of Twente, 14 February 2013, Enschede, Netherlands.
  • Abdessalem, Y., Borcsa, M., Edelstein, C., Perez, A., Polychroni, K. & Prokopiou E. (2010). Co-presenter at the symposium: Working with Transmigration and Families in 21st Century Europe. 7th Congress of the European Family Therapy Association (EFTA) "60 years of family therapy, 20 years of EFTA... and after? New ways for systemic practice", 29-31 October 2010, Paris, France.
  • Anderson, H., Borcsa, M., Friedrich-Hett, T., Gergen, K.J. & Oestereich, C. (2010). Opening forum at the 17th Annual Scientific Conference of the Systemische Gesellschaft e.V. "Life change as dialogue. Social constructions and systemic practice". 02-04 September 2010, Marburg.
  • Borcsa, M. (2006). The healing power of language - from Freud's talking cure to modern forms of psychotherapy and counselling. Lecture at the Impulse series at the FH Nordhausen. 17 January 2006, Nordhausen.
  • Borcsa, M. (2006). Research at universities of applied sciences. Plenary paper at the 3rd conference "Systemic research in therapy, education and organisational development" of the University of Heidelberg. 08-10 March 2006, Heidelberg.
  • Borcsa, M. (2006). Solution-orientated systemic pedagogy - possibilities and limits. Lecture at the Annual conference of the German Society for Systemic Pedagogy (DGsP)19-21 May 2006, Erfurt.
  • Borcsa, M. (2003). Identity as self-understanding: Reflections on a hermeneutic concept of identity based on an empirical study of birth-blind people. Guest lecture at the Humboldt Study Centre for Philosophy at the University of Ulm; 05 February 2003, Ulm.
  • Borcsa, M. (2023). Systemic therapy in care - European perspectives. Lecture at the symposium: Systemic therapy in psychiatric-psychotherapeutic care (Chair: Maria Borcsa & Bettina Wilms) at the Congress of the German Society for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics (DGPPN): "Ecological Psychiatry and Psychotherapy"29.11. - 02.12.2023, Berlin.
  • Borcsa, M., & Witzel, P. (2023). Memory talk as indicators of transgenerational effects after forced migration. A qualitative study in families with a history of expulsion. Paper presented at the Conference of the Working Group "Social Memory, Remembering and Forgetting" in the Sociology of Knowledge Section of the German Sociological Association (DGS) Achievements and Perspectives of Cultural and Social Memory Research, Berlin, 27 - 29 September 2023.
  • Hoffmann, K. & Borcsa, M. (2023). How does the therapeutic system use the impulses of the Reflecting Team in the further course of couple therapy? An explorative study. Paper presented at QRMH9: Building Bridges in Times of Uncertainty: The Role of Qualitative Research in Mental Health and Well-Being31.08. - 02.09.2023, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Borcsa, M. (2023). Symposium: Family Narratives after Forced Migration - Exploring Vulnerability and Resilience. QRMH9: Qualitative Research in Mental Health - Building Bridges in Time sof Uncertainy: The Role of Qualitative Research in Menatl Health and Well-Being, 31 - 02 September 2023, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Janusz, B., Landwójtowicz, P., Wetzel, D., Borcsa, M. (2023). Transgenerational scripts of resettlement and migration. Interactional displays of memory. Paper presented in Symposium: Family narratives after forced migration - Exploring vulnerability and resilience (Chair: Maria Borcsa). QRMH9: Building Bridges in Times of Uncertainty: The Role of Qualitative Research in Mental Health and Well-Being, 31 August - 2 September 2023, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Borcsa, M. & Witzel. P. (2023). Reconstructions of narrative identities after forced migration. Paper presented in Symposium: Family narratives after forced migration - Exploring vulnerability and resilience (Chair: Maria Borcsa). QRMH9: Building bridges in times of uncertainty: The Role of Qualitative Research in Mental Health and Well-Being31.08. - 02.09.2023, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Borcsa, M. (Chair and Discussant), Loriedo, C. et al. & Ugazio V. (2022). Symposium: New perspectives on influences of families of origin on couple construction and their therapeutic use. 11th Conference of the European Familiy Therapy Association: Systemic Resonances And Interferences. 07-10 September 2022, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
  • Borcsa, M. (2022). Familles globalisées et relations virtuelles: le génogramme 4.0. 14it Journées Francophones de Thérapie Familiale Systémique de Lyon. Stabilité: Continuités et Ruptures. 19-21 May 2022, ENS Lyon, France.
  • Hille, J. & Borcsa, M. (2021) Addressees in systemic couple therapy - The creation of a therapeutic system. Paper presented in the Relational Mind Symposium: Micro-analytic and multi-modal case studies on meaning making processes in individual and couple therapy. QRMH8: Qualitative Research in Mental Health: Trajectories Towards a New Era. 9-11 September 2021 (online).
  • Borcsa, M., Guirgis F., Hille, J., Wetzel, D. (2021). Transgenerational crisis processing after forced migration. A transnational mixed-methods study on value change in families with a history of forced migration. Presentation in the ad hoc group: Mixed Methods beyond Methodological Nationalism: On the exploration of social crises, dynamics and orders in transnational contexts. Joint congress of the German Sociological Association (DGS) and the Austrian Sociological Association (ÖGS): "Post-Corona Society? Pandemic, crisis and their consequences". 23-25 August 2021 (online).
  • Borcsa, M. (2019). Stimulated Recall in couple therapy: Analyzing the levels of the therapeutic system. Paper presented in the panel: Stimulated Recall Interviews in couple therapy. A research instrument and a means of therapeutic intervention (Moderation: Maria Borcsa). Society for Psychotherapy Research, 5th joint European & UK Chapters conference "Separation and Unity", 19-21 September 2019, Krakow, Poland.
  • Borcsa, M. (2019). Clients' and therapists' experiences in couple therapy sessions: Echoes of cognitions and emotions. Paper presented in the symposium: IPR as a tool of reflective insight into therapeutic process in family and couple therapy. Implications for teaching and supervision (Chair: Barbara Jozefik). 10th Conference of the European Family Therapy Association: Visible and Invisible: Bordering Change in Systemic Family Therapy, 11-14 September 2019, Naples, Italy.
  • Borcsa, M. (2019). Systemic approaches in emerging technologies. On the way to e-Couple and Family Therapy (e-CFT): Where are we now and where will we go? Paper presented in the symposium: Systemic approaches in emerging technologies (Chairs: Maria Borcsa, Valeria Pomini). 10th Conference of the European Family Therapy Association: Visible and Invisible: Bordering Change in Systemic Family Therapy, 11-14 September 2019, Naples, Italy.
  • Pomini, V., Borcsa, M., Saint-Mont, U., Whyte, M. (2019). Couple and family therapists' use of ICTs. Paper presented in the symposium: Systemic approaches in emerging technologies (Chairs: Maria Borcsa, Valeria Pomini). 10th Conference of the European Family Therapy Association: Visible and Invisible: Bordering Change in Systemic Family Therapy, 11-14 September 2019, Naples, Italy.
  • Vall, B., Laitila, A., Borcsa, M. (2019). Stimulated recall interviews: How can the research interview contribute to new therapeutic practices? Paper presented in the symposium: Relational Mind II: Evolving interplay of agents, methods, and collaborative relationships (Chair: Virpi-Liisa Kykyri). 10th Conference of the European Family Therapy Association: Visible and Invisible: Bordering Change in Systemic Family Therapy, 11-14 September 2019, Naples, Italy.
  • Borcsa, M. (2019). Interpersonal Process Recall in systemic therapy: Interviewing clients and therapists about their experiences in couple therapy sessions. Paper presented in panel: A systemic approach in using Interpersonal Process Recall: from positivist legacy to constructionist future (Panel organiser: Maria Borcsa). 50th SPR International Annual Meeting. The Future of Psychotherapy Research: Building on our 50 Year Legacy, 3-6 July 2019, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Borcsa, M., Holma, J., Laitila, A, Päivinen, H., & Vall, B. (2018). Symposium: Relational Mind. Combining qualitative research, physiological responses and Stimulated Recall Interviews in couple therapy. QRMH7: Qualitative Research in Mental Health: Rising to a Global Challenge, Berlin, 20-22 September 2018.
  • Borcsa, M., Gale, J. & Janusz, B. (2018). Symposium: An invitation to a second-order observation: Interpersonal Process Recall in systemic therapy. QRMH7: Qualitative Research in Mental Health: Rising to a Global Challenge, Berlin, 20-22 September 2018.
  • Borcsa, M. (2017). Access to family and systemic therapy in different European countries - chances and risks. Paper presented at the symposium: Finding access to people who need us, but who don't think they do.... WPA XVII World Congress of Psychiatry, 8-12 October 2017, Berlin, Germany.
  • Borcsa, M. (2017). Bridging research and clinical intervention: Stimulated Recall Interviews as creation of meaning in the personal, couple and therapeutic system. Paper presented at the symposium: Relational Mind: Doing relational research on embodiment and experience in couple therapy. 4th Joint Conference UK and European Chapters "Psychotherapy Practice and Research: Finding the common ground"Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR), 20-22 September 2017, Oxford, UK.
  • Borcsa, M. (2017). The Genogram 4.0 Interview. Paper presented at the ",39th AFTA Annual Meeting & Open Conference "Innovative Family Therapy - Today and Tomorrow " 31 May - 4 June 2017Philadelphia, PA, USA.
  • Tseliou, E. & Borcsa, M. (2016). Convener at the Symposium: Discursive research approaches: Inviting researchers and family therapists into dialogue: Participants: Anderson, H., Sutherland, O., Seikkula, J., Ugazio, V. 9th Conference of the European Family Therapy Association. "Origins and Originality in Family Therapy and Systemic Practice"28 September - 1 October 2016, Athens, Greece.
  • Borcsa, M. (2016). Organiser of the Panel: A global perspective: How do family therapy associations all over the world respond to existential challenges: terrorism, war, refugee crisis? 9th Conference of the European Family Therapy Association "Origins and Originality in Family Therapy and Systemic Practice"28 September - 1 October 2016, Athens, Greece.
  • Borcsa, M., Hille, J., Karampa, T. & Vall. B. (2016). Stimulated recall interviews: Bridging research and clinical practice. Paper presented at 9th Conference of the European Family Therapy Association "Origins and Originality in Family Therapy and Systemic Practice"28 September - 1 October 2016, Athens, Greece.
  • Borcsa, M. & Pomini, V. (2016). Convener at the Symposium: Virtual relationships and systemic practices in the digital era. 9th Conference of the European Family Therapy Association. "Origins and Originality in Family Therapy and Systemic Practice"28 September - 1 October 2016, Athens, Greece.
  • Borcsa, M. (2016). Research perspectives in couple therapy: Discursive qualitative methods. Paper presented at 38th Annual Meeting & Open Conference of the American Family TherapyAcademy "Creating a Context for Change in Couple and Family Life: Collaboration in Clinical Practice"22-25 June 2016, Denver, CO, USA.
  • Borcsa, M., Naraskeviciute, E. & Sools, A. (2016). Responding to a paradoxical task: Imagine a desired future without employment. Paper presented at the Symposium: Future Stories as resources in times of unemployment. 6th International Conference Qualitative Research on Mental Health (QRMH6) "Towards relational perspectives in mental health research"25-27 May 2016, Chania, Greece.
  • Borcsa, M. (2015). Family Therapy Research. Paper presented at the Interest Group of the American Family Therapy Academy (AFTA), 37th Annual Meeting & 4th Open Conference "Global Ecologies - Connections among Self, Families, Communities and Cultures", 03-06 June 2015, Vancouver, WA, USA.
  • Borcsa, M. (2014). Introducing Objective Hermeneutics in Systemic Therapy Research. Paper presented at the Symposium: The couple therapy of Victoria and Alfonso - different readings afford multiple perspectives. 5th International Conference Qualitative Research on Mental Health (QRMH5) "Practicing mental health: Qualitative approaches to investigating services and interventions"02-04 September 2014 Chania, Greece.
  • Kykyri, V.-L. & Borcsa, M. (2014). Panel Organizer and Discussant: Relational Mind: Combining observations of participants' autonomic nervous system responses, non-verbal interaction, conversation, and inner dialogue in two important moments within a couple therapy session. 5th International Conference Qualitative Research on Mental Health (QRMH5) "Practicing mental health: Qualitative approaches to investigating services and interventions"02-04 September 2014 Chania, Greece. 
  • Borcsa, M. (2014). Panel Organiser, Moderator and Presenter: Qualitative Research in Systemic Therapy Practice. 45th International Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR), 25-28 June 2014, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • Seikkula, J., Avdi E., Borcsa M., Fellin, L., Ugazio V. & Wahlström, J. (2013). Family therapy as embodied dance of therapists and family. The Relational Mind Project. Presentation at the 8th Congress of the European Family Therapy Association "Opportunities in a Time of Crisis: The Role of the Family", 24-27 October 2013, Istanbul, Turkey.
  • Borcsa, M. (2013). Introducing Objective Hermeneutics into Systemic Therapy Research. Presentation at the Symposium: Seven authors in search of a couple: a multiple reading of the same therapy. 8th Congress of the European Family Therapy Association "Opportunities in a Time of Crisis: The Role of the Family", 24-27 October 2013, Istanbul, Turkey.
  • Borcsa, M. (2012). The construction of interpersonal phenomena during a therapy session with a couple. Presentation at the Symposium "Analysing dialogues in couples therapy". The 4thQualitative Research on Mental Health Conference (QRMH4) "Exploring the Meaning of Meaning in Mental Health Research", 03-05 July 2012, Nottingham, Great Britain.
  • Avdi, E., Borcsa, M., Fellin, L. Holma, J., Laitaila, A., Rautiainen, E.-L., Rober, P., Salgado, J. Seikkula, J. , Ugazio, V. & Wahlström, J. (2011). Exploring dialogue in couples' therapy: An exchange of voices. 1st International Congress on Dialogical Practices22-24.11.11, Helsinki, Finland.
  • Borcsa, M., Fries, N. & Tucek, L. (2010). Three German ERASMUS universities report on their "success models". Presentation at the ERASMUS regional conference of the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) "The social dimension in ERASMUS mobility"16-17 September 2010, Humboldt University, Berlin.
  • Borcsa, M. (2009). Systemic strategies as approaches for the promotion of justice in and for families. Lecture at the Anniversary Conference of the German Society for Social Work (DGSA) "Twenty Years of Profiling the Science of Social Work. A look back - a look forward", 27 - 28 November 2009, Munich.
  • Borcsa, M., Klar, S. Ludewig, K & Reithmayr, F. (2008). Man in the system. Forum at the 15th Annual Scientific Conference of the Systemic Society "Behind the Mirrors"18-19 April 2008, Berlin.
  • Borcsa, M. (2008). Systemic research funding by SG and DGSF. The research prize and other ways. Panel discussion at the 4th conference "Systemic research in therapy, education and organisational development" of the University and the University Hospital Heidelberg, 05-07 March 2008, Heidelberg.
  • Borcsa, M. (2007). Chair at the Symposium: Creating Space For Open Dialogue In Early Psychosis. Participants: Val Jackson & Jaakko Seikkula. 6th Congress of the European Family Therapy Association "Beyond Oppositions: Individuals, Families, Communities", 04 - 06 October 2007, Glasgow, Great Britain.
  • Borcsa, M. et al. (2006). Systemic competence - key qualification of professional social work. Panel discussion (co-organisation and participation) at the 18th World Conference on Social Work "Social Balance in a World of Inequality"30 July - 3 August 2006, Munich.
  • Borcsa, M. (2004). Chair at the Symposia: (1) Family Models: Participants: M. Markova & A. Trencheva (BG); H. Hanks (GB); (2) Systemic Assessment: Participants: J. de Mol & A. Buysee (B); J. Katajamäki, P. Välivaara & J. Aaltonen (FIN). 5th European Congress for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice "Creating futures. Systemic Dialogues across Europe" 29 September - 2 October 2004, Berlin.
  • Borcsa, M. (2003). Integrating Qualitative Research Methods in Everyday Practice: Using microanalysis of videotaped sessions as basis for efficient interventions. Presentation at the Annual Conference of AFT - Association of Family Therapy and Systemic Practice in the UK31 October - 2 November 2003 in Nottingham, Great Britain.
  • Borcsa, M. (2002). "Family therapy" in the mass media: a structural analysis. Lecture at the 2nd Annual Scientific Conference of the German Society for Systemic Therapy and Family Therapy, 02-05 October 2002, Freiburg i.Br.
  • Borcsa, M. (2002). Self-thematisation as alterity: Identity constructions of blind people from three generations. Lecture at the International Congress "Psychological Constructions - Politics of Cognition" of the New Society for Psychology & Department of Subject Research and Critical Psychology at Freie Universität Berlin, 19-22 February 2002, Berlin.
  • Borcsa M. (1999). (Mass) communication and self-localisation in identity and alterity: Birth blindness in the media age. Lecture at the Workshop Conference "Mass Media and Alterity" of the SFB 541, 2 - 3 July 1999, University of Freiburg i.Br.
  • Borcsa, M. (1999). The function of the mass media as intermediary agencies of meaning. Explication in the case of blindness and media use. Lecture at the Workshop of the specialist group "Reception Research" of the German Journalism Society, 22-23 January 1999, LMU Munich.
  • Charlton, M. & Borcsa, M. (1997). Thematic bias, involvement and forms of identification. Discussion of a model of active spectatorship using an empirical example. Presentation at the Conference of the Collaborative Research Centre 321 "Science meets Fiction"30 November - 2 December 1995, University of Freiburg i.Br.
  • Charlton, M. & Borcsa, M. (1995). Cognitive, emotional and social conditions of the reception of audiovisual depictions of violence. Presentation at the media psychology symposium "The socio-emotional dimension in dealing with screen media", 02-04 April 1995, Cologne.
  • Borcsa, M. (1994). Public partnership(s): On 'family therapy' in broadcasting. Poster presented at the 1st European Conference on Family Research "Family and family problems in transition", 03-05 October 1994, University of Bamberg.
  • Borcsa, M. (2016). Reflexionserweiterungen - Globalisierte Familien und das Genogramm 4.0. Workshop as part of the symposium "The power of doubt - systemic practice in times of "certain" knowledge"13-15 October 2016, Heidelberg.
  • Borcsa, M. (2008). How do we improve the positioning and quality of systemic teaching and research in the German-speaking world? Leader of the strategy workshop at the 4th conference "Systemic research in therapy, education and organisational development" of the University and the University Hospital Heidelberg, 05-07 March 2008, Heidelberg.
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Systemic therapy: Is the family to blame after all?

01 October 2023

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