Andreas Benz (psychoanalyst)

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Andreas Benz (* 1942 in Marburg ) is a Swiss writer , psychoanalyst and psychiatrist of German descent.

Life

The author of non-fiction books on ethnopsychoanalysis and short forms of psychotherapy lives with his family in Zurich.

Born as a war child from an educated middle-class background in the university town of Marburg, shortly after the end of the war, Andreas Benz moved with his mother and siblings to the Swiss economic metropolis of Zurich, where he grew up. After graduating from high school, he studied medicine at the universities of Geneva , Zurich and Heidelberg . He then obtained Swiss citizenship in the Canton of Zurich . In 1975, at the age of 33, he started his own psychotherapeutic practice as a resident doctor there, too. In addition to patient care, he devoted himself from the beginning to trauma research (including victims of war and violence ) and wrote a number of specialist articles and books on it.

Works

  • The survivor: three productions to overcome a trauma . Europ. Publishing house, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-434-46233-3 .
  • Arousal and being aroused: Potency and impotence in men as an expression of power / powerlessness conflicts. In: Sexualberatungsstelle Salzburg (ed.): Drive, inhibition, desire - psychoanalysis and sexuality. Publishing house Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1998.
  • We need a lot of time to get young. The contradicting levels of time experience in psychotherapy. In: Werkblatt. No. 43, issue 2/1999
  • Surgical results of 74 cases of aneurysm of the anterior communicating artery . Diss. Med. Zurich 1969.
  • Moments change more than time. The psychoanalytic interview as a first impression of the therapist and interlocutor. In: Psyche, 42, Heft 7, 1988, pp. 577-601.

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personal data
SURNAME Benz, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer, psychoanalyst and psychiatrist of German descent
DATE OF BIRTH 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Marburg