Alfred Pritz

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Alfred Pritz (born October 31, 1952 in St. Lorenzen near Scheifling ) is an Austrian psychoanalyst , publicist , editor , founding rector of the Sigmund Freud University in Vienna and president of the World Council for Psychotherapy .

Alfred Pritz at the opening of a symposium in the Palais Liechtenstein in Vienna

Short biography

In addition to and after studying psychology, psychopathology and education in Salzburg, Alfred Pritz completed numerous therapeutic trainings (according to Carl Rogers , gestalt therapy , hypnosis and finally psychoanalysis in Vienna).

After receiving his doctorate, he worked as a psychotherapist at the outpatient clinic of the Vienna Regional Health Insurance Fund from 1977 and mainly dealt with therapies for the elderly , neuroses and personality disorders . He advocated the cash-funded therapy of the elderly and promoted short- term therapies in groups. Since 1978 he has held numerous teaching positions at home and abroad, including a. in Ukraine, Albania, South Africa and China. In 1980 he did a research stay at the Albert Einstein Hospital in New York with Leo Bellak . Since 1991 he has been working as a training analyst for individual and group analysis in Vienna. In 1995 he was represented in the Senate of the International Human Rights Tribunal (50 years of the Second Republic, 50 years of oppression and persecution of lesbians and gays in Austria); In 1996 he sat in a subcommittee of the judiciary committee in the Austrian parliament for the equality of the population group and the end of criminal prosecution.

vision

Alfred Pritz became known primarily through his professional commitment and his efforts to unite the fragmented and divided psychotherapeutic landscape in Austria. As deputy chairman of the umbrella organization of Austrian Psychotherapeutic Associations, he was significantly involved in the creation of the Psychotherapy Act from 1986 . Together with Hans Strotzka and Raoul Schindler , he was involved in the Austrian Working Group for Group Therapy and Group Dynamics (ÖAGG), a training and research institution in the field of group work. In 1991 he was elected President of the Austrian Psychotherapy Association and in 1996 President of the World Association. In these functions he has organized and directed three world congresses for psychotherapy in Vienna (1996, 1999, 2002) and is involved in other world congresses in Buenos Aires (2005), Beijing (2008) and Sydney (2011).

From 2003 to 2005 Pritz was involved in the reconciliation project with psychotherapists in the former Yugoslavian countries. Since the early 1990s, Alfred Pritz (also in European Septimus and Tacis projects) has been trying to build a psychotherapeutic infrastructure in the post-communist countries of Albania, Latvia, Russia and Ukraine, as well as to integrate refugees in Austria.

In 2005 he founded - together with Jutta Fiegl , Heinz Laubreuter and Elisabeth Vykoukal - the world's first university for psychotherapy sciences, the Sigmund Freud University of Vienna . The outpatient clinic set up there, of which he was initially head (now it is Eva Pritz), ensures basic psychotherapeutic care for three districts of Vienna. Furthermore, together with Elisabeth Vykoukal, he conceived a research project on the messie syndrome and supervises and promotes diploma theses and dissertations on psychotherapy for marginalized and discriminated population groups.

Work as an editor

Alfred Pritz wrote little, but edited many volumes. Time and again he has succeeded in motivating committed co-editors and a large number of authors for common concerns. As the editor of numerous compilations, he has made a name for himself in particular with the encyclopedic works Lexicon of Psychotherapy and Personality Encyclopedia of Psychotherapy , both edited by Springer, both conceived together with Gerhard Stumm , but the other listed volumes are also unique in their field and count today to the standard works.

Functions

  • Deputy chairman of the umbrella organization of Austrian psychotherapeutic associations , 1986–1992
  • Secretary General of the Austrian Working Group for Group Therapy and Group Dynamics (ÖAGG), 1991–2001
  • President of the Austrian Federal Association for Psychotherapy (ÖBVP), 1991–2001
  • Secretary General of the European Association for Psychotherapy (EAP), since 1991
  • Proponent, co-founder and president of the World Council for Psychotherapy , since 1995
  • Chairman of the Marianne Ringler Research Promotion Association , since 2004
  • Rector of the Sigmund Freud University of Vienna , since 2005

Honors

In addition, Alfred Pritz has been awarded four honorary doctorates so far - 1997 from the Medical University in Lviv , 2006 from the Eastern European Institute for Psychoanalysis in St. Petersburg , 2009 from the Ricardo Palma University in Lima and 2010 from the Kiev National University .

Since 2011 Pritz has been an external member of the Ukrainian Academy of Pedagogical Sciences .

Publications

As an author

  • Self-help with stress , introduction to autogenic training, Hollinek Vienna, 1984
  • Short group psychotherapy , Springer Heidelberg, 1990
  • Psychologist Act, Psychotherapy Act , short commentary, together with M. Kierein and G. Sonneck, Orac Vienna, 1991
  • Technical articles in various magazines and specialist books

As editor

  • The dirty paradise , Psychoanalytic Contributions to the Ecological Movement, Böhlau, 1983
  • with G. Sonneck: Medicine for Psychologists and Non-Medical Psychotherapists, Springer Heidelberg, 1990
  • with H. Petzold: The concept of illness in modern psychotherapy, Junferman Paderborn, 1992
  • with P. Muhr: Philosophy on the Coach. Psychoanalytical excursions into philosophical texts, WUV Vienna, 1994
  • with H. Dellisch: Psychotherapie im Krankenhaus , Orac Wien, 1994
  • with S. Madu and P. Baguma: Psychotherapy in Africa First investigations, WCP-Verlag Vienna, 4 volumes 1996–99
  • Psychotherapy - a new science of man , Springer Vienna-New York, 1996
  • The world of psychotherapy , with. T. Wenzel, Facultas Vienna, 1999
  • Dictionary of Psychotherapy , together with G. Stumm, Springer Wien-New York, 2000
  • with E. Töpel: Mediation in Austria , 2000, Orac, Vienna
  • with E. Vykoukal: Gruppenpsychoanalyse , 2001 Facultas Vienna, second edition 2003
  • Globalized Psychotherapy , Facultas, 2002
  • The psychotherapeutic report , with P. Lanske, Orac LexisNexis Vienna, 2003
  • Personality dictionary of psychotherapy , together with G. Stumm, P. Gumhalter, P. Voracek, N. Nemeskeri, Springer Vienna 2005
  • 100 Masterworks of Psychotherapy , Springer Vienna-New York, 2007
  • The Messie Syndrome , together with E. Vykoukal, Katharina Reboly and N. Agdari-Moghadam, Springer Vienna-New York, 2008
  • Intoxication without drugs. Substance-free addictions , together with Dominik Batthyany, Springer Vienna-New York, 2009
  • Book series Psychotherapy, Psychology and Psychosocial Medicine, LexisNexis Verlag Vienna, since 1992

Lectures

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b List of the bearers of the badge of honor for services to the Republic of Austria . Retrieved December 9, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Pritz, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian psychoanalyst, scientist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Sankt Lorenzen near Scheifling