Christian Pross

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Christian Pross (born July 3, 1948 in Göppingen ) is a German doctor, psychotherapist and medical historian. His work focuses on the areas of medicine under National Socialism and psychotraumatology .

Live and act

Christian Pross was born on July 3, 1948 in Göppingen . After attending school and high school at the Taunusgymnasium Königstein / Ts. From 1968 to 1974 he studied human medicine at the University of Heidelberg . From 1971 to 1972 he was a DAAD scholar at the Bristol Medical School UK . From 1976 to 1983 he completed his training as a general practitioner at the Children's Clinic of the Rudolf Virchow Hospital in Berlin and at the Moabit Hospital . In 1980 he was at the Free University of Berlin with a thesis on the early childhood and perinatal morbidity after childbirth by ventouse and forceps with special consideration of protracted delivery history doctorate .

1983–1984 Christian Pross headed a project on the persecution of Jewish doctors at the Moabit Hospital . The knowledge gained was presented in an exhibition and a book in 1984.

From 1985 to 1986 he worked as a scholarship holder at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research on the German "reparation policy" and on the medical assessment of concentration camp survivors.

From 1987 to 1988, as a scholarship holder of the German Research Foundation, he conducted research at the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore / USA in a project on the attitude of German émigré doctors to medicine during National Socialism .

On the occasion of the 92nd German Medical Association in Berlin in May 1989, Christian Pross, as project manager, organized the exhibition The Value of People - Medicine in Germany 1918–1945 .

In 1991, after the first Gulf War , he was commissioned by the Berlin Medical Association and the Berlin Senate to lead the relief campaign to help Berliners Kurds . As part of this action, a field hospital for Iraqi Kurdish refugees was operated in southern Turkey. In addition, five rural outpatient clinics have been set up in northern Iraq .

Treatment center for torture victims Berlin (bzfo) - research projects

The preoccupation with the trauma of the concentration camp survivors and the experience gained during the relief campaign for Kurdish refugees led to the establishment of the Treatment Center for Torture Victims Berlin (bzfo) in 1992 , which Christian Pross headed until 2003.

Professional training (selection)

  • 2000 Completion of training in psychotherapy based on depth psychology at the Institute for Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics Berlin (advanced training institute of the DPG ), additional title in psychotherapy, Berlin Medical Association.
2004/2005 training as a supervisor ( DGSv ).
  • 2006 Habilitation at the Medical Faculty of the University of Göttingen . Subject of the habilitation thesis: "Traumatic after-effects of war and persecution - consequences for medical action."
2008 honorary professor at the Charité University Medicine Berlin .

Offices and Awards

Publications (selection)

  • Early childhood and perinatal morbidity after childbirth using a suction cup and forceps with special consideration of the protracted birth process. Inaugural dissertation from the women's clinic and polyclinic in the Steglitz Clinic of the Free University of Berlin. Dir. Prof. Dr. Georg Hörmann , Berlin 1980.
  • Together with Rolf Winau (as ed.): Do not abuse. The Moabit Hospital: 1920–1933 a center for Jewish doctors in Berlin, 1933–1945 persecution - resistance - destruction. Edition Hentrich, Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-926175-20-6
  • Reparation - The guerrilla war against the victims. Published by the Hamburg Institute for Social Research , Athenaeum, Frankfurt 1988, ISBN 3-610-08502-9 .
  • Together with Götz Aly : The Value of Man - Medicine in Germany 1918–1945. Edition Hentrich, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-926175-62-1 . (English version: The Value of the Human Being, Medicine in Germany 1918–1945. Hentrich, Berlin 1991)
  • Paying for the past. The Struggle over Reparations for Surviving Victims of the Nazi Terror. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 1998.
  • The Attitude of German Émigré Doctors Towards Medicine under National Socialism. In: Social History of Medicine. 22, No. 3, 2009, pp. 531-552
  • Injured helper - dealing with trauma: Risks and ways to protect yourself. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-608-89090-7 .
  • The view of German émigré doctors on Nazi “racial hygiene”. In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt . 107, issue 50, December 17, 2010 (digitized version)
  • Together with Lea Hermann. Memory as a reconstruction of reality - group dynamic processes in the processing of the trauma of imprisonment and decomposition in the SED dictatorship on the stage. In: Journal of Psychotraumatology, Psychotherapy Science and Psychological Medicine. Part 1: 11, Issue 4, 2013, pp. 79-89; Part 2: 12, Issue 1, 2014, pp. 88–99.
  • We wanted to run to ruin - the history of the socialist patient collective Heidelberg 1970-1971. With the collaboration of Sonja Schweitzer and Julia Wagner, funded by the Hamburg Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Culture, Psychiatrie Verlag, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-88414-672-9 (summary in English (pdf) )
  • Missed chance to clear up a dramatic chapter in the history of psychiatry. The documentary "SPK Complex". In: Neurology 2018; 37: 826-831 (digitized pdf)

Web links

Individual records - works (selection)

  1. ↑ Christian Pross: The early childhood and perinatal morbidity after delivery with suction cup and forceps with special consideration of the protracted birth process. Inaugural dissertation from the women's clinic and polyclinic in the Steglitz Clinic of the Free University of Berlin. Dir. Prof. Dr. Georg Hörmann, Berlin 1980.
  2. ↑ Christian Pross, Rolf Winau (Ed.): Do not abuse. The Moabit Hospital: 1920–1933 a center for Jewish doctors in Berlin, 1933–1945 persecution - resistance - destruction. Edition Hentrich, Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-926175-20-6 .
  3. ^ Christian Pross. Reparation - The guerrilla war against the victims. Athenaeum, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-610-08502-9 .
  4. ^ Christian Pross: Paying for the Past. The Struggle over Reparations for Surviving Victims of the Nazi Terror. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 1998.
  5. ^ Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Department of the History of Medicine . Website. Retrieved March 11, 2016.
  6. ^ Christian Pross: The Attitude of German Émigré Doctors Towards Medicine under National Socialism. In: Social History of Medicine. 22, No. 3, 2009, pp. 531–552 (here, p. 543) (PDF) via Ch. Pross publications
  7. ↑ Christian Pross: The view of German émigré doctors on Nazi "racial hygiene". In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt . 107, issue 50, December 17, 2010, pp. A2494 – A2496 (here: 2495) (digitized version )
  8. ↑ 92nd German Medical Congress in Berlin from May 2 to 6, 1989 (PDF)
  9. ↑ 92nd German Medical Conference: Berlin Mixture: Overview of key topics and events . In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt. 86, issue 20, 1989, pp. A-1483-A-1486 (PDF)
  10. ↑ Christian Pross, Götz Aly : Der Wert des Menschen - Medicine in Germany 1918-1945. Edition Hentrich, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-926175-62-1 . (English version: The Value of the Human Being, Medicine in Germany 1918–1945. Hentrich, Berlin 1991)
  11. ↑ Marlies Emmerich: A healing garden should help victims of torture to come to terms with their traumatic experiences. Sowing, tending, harvesting. In: Berliner Zeitung. March 6, 2004 (digitized version)
  12. ↑ Christian Pross: Injured helpers - dealing with trauma: Risks and ways to protect yourself. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-608-89090-7 .
  13. ↑ Lea Hermann, Christian Pross: Memory as a reconstruction of reality - group dynamic processes in the processing of the trauma of imprisonment and decomposition in the SED dictatorship on the stage. In: Journal of Psychotraumatology, Psychotherapy Science and Psychological Medicine. Part 1: 11, Issue 4, 2013, pp. 79-89; Part 2: 12, Issue 1, 2014, pp. 88–99.
  14. ↑ Norbert Jachertz: Narrative Theater: The Magical Moment…. In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt. 108, 2011, pp. A1002 – A1003 (digitized version )
  15. ↑ Christian Pross with the assistance of Sonja Schweitzer and Julia Wagner: We wanted to run into ruin. History of the socialist patient collective Heidelberg. Psychiatrie-Verlag, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-88414-672-9 .
  16. ↑ Christian Pross: Manual for Good Practice and Management in Trauma Centers: Structural Aspects of Work Related Stress - Care for Caregivers, International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT). Copenhagen 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Pross, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, psychotherapist and medical historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Goeppingen