Paul Matussek

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Paul Matussek (born February 1, 1919 in Berlin ; † June 19, 2003 in Wimpersing / Chieming ) was a German neurologist , psychiatrist and psychoanalyst .

Life

Paul Matussek studied from 1937 in Breslau , Berlin , Würzburg and Heidelberg . He began to study medicine and at the same time took theology , but later switched to philosophy with Nicolai Hartmann and psychology with Eduard Spranger .

1944 Matussek was in Berlin on the critical historical representation of the doctrine of conscience at Ree, Wundt, Paulsen, Rümelin, Scheler and Stoker Dr. phil. PhD . A second doctorate to Dr. med. followed in 1946 in Heidelberg with a dissertation on metaphysical problems in medicine. A contribution to the principles of psychotherapy . From 1946 to 1950 he worked as a research assistant in a Heidelberg psychiatric clinic. In 1952 he completed his habilitation with Kurt Schneider in Heidelberg with a thesis on general psychopathology and the symptom of delusional perception .

From 1952 he took on a teaching position as a private lecturer at the University of Munich and began his research at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich. In 1956 he was appointed Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Munich.

Under his direction, an independent “Research Center for Psychopathology and Psychotherapy in the Max Planck Society” was set up in 1966, which he headed as director until 1984 and which was closed after his retirement (year of closure then 1987). He then worked as President of the Foundation for Analytical Psychiatry in Munich until his death.

Matussek is the author of numerous publications, including Endogenous Depression (1965, together with Amrei Halbach and Ursula Troeger ), Ideology, Faith and Conscience (1965, together with Richard Egenter ), Concentration Camp Detention and its Consequences (1971), Creativity as Opportunity (1974) as well as publications in scientific journals. From the beginning of the 1990s until his death, he developed a model of psychosis that helps to recognize delusional tendencies beyond the clinical area - even in supposedly stable, outwardly successful people. The biographical case studies for this were created by the cultural scientist Peter Matussek , a nephew of Paul Matussek. The fruits of this cooperation are u. a. the two volumes Analytical Psychosentherapie (1993 and 1997) and the book Hitler. Career of a madness (2000, with Jan Marbach).

His brother was the social politician Josef Matussek . In addition to Peter Matussek , Matthias Matussek and Thomas Matussek are his nephews.

Fonts (selection)

  • Historical-critical presentation of the doctrine of conscience in Ree, Wundt, Paulsen, Rümelin, Scheler and Stoker. Dissertation, University of Berlin, 1944.
  • Metaphysical Problems of Medicine: A Contribution to the Principles of Psychotherapy. Springer, Berlin 1948 (dissertation, University of Heidelberg, 1946).
  • General psychopathology and the symptom of delusional perception.
  • (with Amrei Halbach and Ursula Troeger ) Endogenous Depression: A Statistical Examination of Untreated Cases. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich 1965.
  • (with Richard Egenter ) Ideology, Faith and Conscience: Discussion at the border between moral theology and psychotherapy . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1965.
  • The concentration camp imprisonment and its consequences. Springer, Berlin 1971, ISBN 3-540-05214-3 .
  • Creativity as an opportunity. The creative person in a psychodynamic view. Piper, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-492-02091-7 .
  • Analytical psychosis therapy. 2 volumes. Springer, Berlin 1993/1997, ISBN 3-540-56029-7 , ISBN 3-540-62044-3 .
  • (with Peter Matussek, Jan Marbach) Hitler. Career of madness. Herbig, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-7766-2184-2 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Redaktionsbüro Harenberg: Knaurs Prominentenlexikon 1980. The personal data of celebrities from politics, economy, culture and society . With over 400 photos. Droemer Knaur, Munich / Zurich 1979, ISBN 3-426-07604-7 , Matussek, Paul, p. 298 .
  2. ^ History of the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry
personal data
SURNAME Matussek, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neurologist, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 2003
Place of death Wimpersing, Chieming