Brigitte Woggon

Brigitte Woggon b. Steiner (born November 14, 1943 in Naumburg ; † July 28, 2019 near Zurich ) was a German psychiatrist and specialist journalist .

Life

After completing her medical degree in Berlin , she worked at the Psychiatric University Clinic in Zurich from 1970 until her retirement in 2008 . In 1973 she became the first woman to be senior physician . From 1991 she led a special outpatient consultation and a psychopharmacotherapeutic information center for doctors, and from 1996 until her retirement in 2008 she also taught pharmacotherapy at the Medical Faculty of the University of Zurich . As a publicist, she emerged from her therapeutic practice with her textbook Treatment with Psychotropic Drugs and two books. As an advocate of high-dose pharmacotherapies ("woggonizing"), she was repeatedly criticized.

In addition to her work as a professor of pharmacotherapy at the Psychiatric University Clinic, she was President of the Equal Opportunities Commission of the University of Zurich for seven years.

From 2008 to the end of 2015, Woggon worked in the Woggon practice group in Zurich. She died on July 28, 2019 at the age of 75 near Zurich.

Fonts (selection)

Quantitative studies on pulmonary fat embolism. Dissertation, FU Berlin, 1971.
Hashish. Consumption and Effect . Springer, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-540-06917-8 .
Prognosis of psychopharmacotherapy. Clinical investigation into the predictability of the short-term therapeutic success of neuroleptics and antidepressants. Enke, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-432-93451-3 ( habilitation thesis , University of Zurich, 1983).
Treatment with psychotropic drugs - up-to-date and customized . Huber, Bern 1998; 3rd, updated edition 2009, ISBN 978-3-456-84694-1 .
I can't want to! Reports from Depressed Patients . Huber, Bern 1998; 3rd edition 2002, ISBN 3-456-83892-1 .
Nobody helps me! Treatment protocols for allegedly incurable psychiatric patients . Huber, Bern 1999, ISBN 3-456-83193-5 .

Web links

Brigitte Woggon on the website of the University of Zurich , Gender Equality
David Werner: "If you don't defend yourself, you perish." (PDF) Portrait in: University of Zurich, Equal Opportunities, July 2010.
Brigitte Woggon ( Memento from February 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the practice group at the time
Barbara Lukesch : "Like a herb witch" . In: Die Weltwoche , 45/2007 of November 7, 2007; Interview (PDF)
Controversial medic Brigitte Woggon has died. In: srf.ch from August 7, 2019.
Dorothee Vögeli: On the death of Brigitte Woggon: Unjustly branded as a “pharmaceutical witch”. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from August 8, 2019.

Individual evidence

↑ entry about Brigitte Woggon in the lexicon of the association authors of Switzerland , accessed on July 19, 2013.
↑ ^a ^b Thomas Wyss: The university rector called her "mother's moral courage". Obituary, Tages-Anzeiger , August 7, 2019, p. 15.
↑ ^a ^b Brigitte Tag, Elisabeth Maurer, Brigitte Blöchlinger (Ed.), Tanja Wirtz (Ed.): Listen - Look - Act. Civil courage and science . ( Memento from July 18, 2013 on WebCite ) (PDF) University of Zurich , Universelle No. 9, May 9, 2009, introduction p. 8.

personal data
SURNAME	Woggon, Brigitte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Steiner, Brigitte (single name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German psychiatrist and specialist journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 14, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH	Naumburg
DATE OF DEATH	28th July 2019
Place of death	near Zurich

[1] try about Brigitte Woggon in the lexicon of the association authors of Switzerland , accessed on July 19, 2013.

[tagi-2] Thomas Wyss: The university rector called her "mother's moral courage". Obituary, Tages-Anzeiger , August 7, 2019, p. 15.

[usz-3] Brigitte Tag, Elisabeth Maurer, Brigitte Blöchlinger (Ed.), Tanja Wirtz (Ed.): Listen - Look - Act. Civil courage and science . ( Memento from July 18, 2013 on WebCite ) (PDF) University of Zurich , Universelle No. 9, May 9, 2009, introduction p. 8.