Christian Eggers

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Christian Eggers (2014)

Christian Eggers (born September 15, 1938 in Geislingen ; † January 10, 2020 ) was a German child and adolescent psychiatrist and specialist in paediatrics . At the University Hospital Essen , he was the founding director of the Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and played a key role in developing youth psychiatric care in Essen and the Ruhr area .

Life

Christian Eggers is the son of the chemist Hans Eggers (1905–1996) and Gertrud Helene Lilly Schmidt-Lauenstein (1902–1976) - both came from respected merchant families from Celle and Bremen. As a result of his refusal to join the NSDAP , Hans Eggers were denied leading positions in the Reich Patent Office or the Battelle Institute .

The first child, daughter Bärbel, was mentally retarded. Christian Eggers was born prematurely and was judged to be "not viable". So from early childhood he questioned his right to live.

In 1958 Eggers began studying at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . Above all, he valued researchers such as Otto Koehler , Friedrich Oehlkers and Fritz Pringsheim , Eggers' liaison lecturer, who received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation .

From 1962 Eggers studied in Marburg and began his clinical traineeship in 1963 - first at the pathological institute of the Bremen-Mitte Clinic , then at the St. Antonius Hospital in Wissen and finally in the children's clinic at the Philipps University in Marburg . In 1965 Eggers passed the state examination. During the subsequent time as an assistant at the Marburg Child Psychiatric Clinic, he began his dissertation , which was later rated magna cum laude : He examined the course of schizophrenic psychoses with a very early onset (age of onset between seven and 14 years) in 57 patients who have now reached adulthood had.

From his investigation eight years later was the monograph course ways childlike and präpuberaler schizophrenia After the approval Eggers 1967 began training as a pediatrician at the Children's Hospital of the University Hospital of Heidelberg at Horst Bickel , where he was in 1974 for the specialist pediatric habilitation. In 1975 he changed specialist area and university: he took on an assistant position at the University Hospital Tübingen , in the department for child and adolescent psychiatry under the direction of Reinhart Lempp .

Services

  • 1979 to 2004 director of the clinic for child and adolescent psychiatry at the University Hospital Essen
  • 1984 Founding of the Essener Verein für Sozialtherapie eV as a provider of therapeutic residential groups
  • 1997 Foundation of Prof. Dr. Eggers Foundation
  • 2006 Development of the special course ( Prof. Eggers course ) with the Volkshochschule Essen

Awards

  • Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2015)
  • Antistigma Award DGPPN (German Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy) (2015)
  • Honorary award for social commitment from the Rhineland Regional Council (2011)
  • Sponsorship award for inclusion from the community psychiatry in the Rhineland (2013)
  • Sponsorship award from the Help an Hope Foundation in the care category

Works (selection)

  • Progression of childhood and prepuberal schizophrenia. (= Monographs from the entire field of psychiatry. Volume 9). Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 1973, ISBN 3-662-13372-5 .
  • Christian Eggers, Horst Bickel: Pre-, peri- and postnatally conditioned idiotic forms. In: Results of internal medicine and paediatrics. Volume 34, Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 1974, ISBN 3-540-06519-9 .
  • Childhood depression from a developmental perspective. In: Acta Paedopsychiatrica. Volume 46, Nos. 5-6, Feb 1981, pp. 263-273.
  • Bullshit. In: UH Peters (Ed.): Encyclopedia: Psychology of the 20th Century. Volume X, Kindler-Verlag, Zurich 1980.
  • Christian Eggers, Joest Martinius, Gerhardt Nissen: Child and adolescent psychiatric pharmacotherapy . Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 1984, ISBN 3-540-12520-5 .
  • Relationships between child psychoses and adult psychoses. In: Reinhart Lempp (ed.): Psychological development and schizophrenia. Huber-Verlag, Bern / Stuttgart / Toronto 1984.
  • Convergent interaction of neurobiological and developmental psychological attachment factors: stimulus protection model of schizophrenic genesis. In: Werner Janzarik (Ed.): Personality and Psychosis. Enke Verlag, Stuttgart 1988.
  • Disturbances in the experience of the self and the assessment of reality. In: H. Remschmidt, MH Schmidt (ed.): Child and adolescent psychiatry in clinic and practice. Thieme-Verlag, Stuttgart / New York 1988.
  • Detlef Bunk, Christian Eggers, Renate Schepker: Reception of youth psychiatric court reports by the perpetrators. In: R. du Bois (Ed.): Practice and environment of child and adolescent psychiatry. Huber-Verlag, Bern / Stuttgart / Toronto 1989, ISBN 3-456-81842-4 .
  • Psychological consequential damage after being held in the camp up to the third generation. In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt. Volume 87, No. 9, 1990, pp. 501-503.
  • Developmental aspects of anhedonia. In: H. Heimann (Ed.): Anhedonie. Loss of joie de vivre. A central phenomenon of mental disorders . Fischer-Verlag, Stuttgart / New York 1990.
  • Schizophrenia and Youth: Etiology and Therapeutic Consequences. Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg 1991, ISBN 3-662-02684-8 .
  • Detlef Bunk, Christian Eggers: Long-term effects of early childhood traumas using the example of the children of Nazi victims. In: F. Proustka, U. Lehmkuhl (ed.): Endangering child development. Quintessenz, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-86128-142-2 .
  • Christian Eggers, Reinhart Lempp, Gerhardt Nissen, Peter Strunk: Textbook of general and special child and adolescent psychiatry. 7th edition. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg / Tokyo / New York 1994, ISBN 3-642-16579-6 .
  • Xenophobic violence and hatred of foreigners among children and young people. In: E. Koch, M. Özek, WM Pfeiffer (eds.): Psychology and pathology of migration. German-Turkish perspectives. Lambertus-Verlag, Freiburg 1995.
  • Theses on violence and hatred of foreigners among German youth. In: H. Brodorotti, Ch. Stockmann (Ed.): Racism and German asylum policy - Germany where ?! IKO-Verlag for Intercultural Communication, Frankfurt 1995.
  • Selflessness as a cause of xenophobic violence. In: New Collection. Volume 36, 1996, ISSN  0028-3355 .
  • Detlef Bunk, Christian Eggers: The importance of relationship dynamics factors for the psychopathogenesis of Nazi persecuted in childhood. In: Advances in Neurology Psychiatry. Volume 36, 1996, pp. 245-258.
  • Irritation protection model of early schizophrenia: an integrative etiological and therapeutic approach. In: Practice of child psychology and child psychiatry. Volume 47, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1998.
  • Schizophrenia of childhood and adolescence. Medical Scientific Publishing Company, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-941468-39-9 .
  • Jörg M. Fegert, Christian Eggers, Frank Resch: Psychiatry and psychotherapy of children and adolescents. 2nd Edition. Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-642-19846-5 .
  • A life's work for mentally ill children and young people. Paranus Verlag, Neumünster 2015.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christian Eggers: A life's work for mentally ill children and young people. 2015, p. 3ff.
  2. ↑ Christian Eggers: A life's work for mentally ill children and young people. 2015, p. 119.
personal data
SURNAME Eggers, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German child and youth psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Geislingen
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 2020