Christian Müller (doctor, 1921)

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Christian Müller (born August 11, 1921 in Münsingen ; † March 29, 2013 in Bern ; entitled to live there ) was a Swiss psychiatrist . For more than 25 years he was director of the Cery psychiatric institution and professor of psychiatry at the University of Lausanne . Müller was one of the early psychiatry reformers in Switzerland.

Life

education

Christian Müller was the son of Max Müller and his wife Gertrud Müller-Adrian. On his father's side, he comes from an old family of doctors and theologians. His grandfather was already a psychiatrist and his father Max Müller was most recently full professor of psychiatry at the University of Bern .

After attending primary and secondary school in Münsingen, he passed his Matura in 1940 at the grammar school in Bern . He then studied medicine in Geneva and Bern, which he graduated with the state examination in 1946. Several months of mobilization-related interruptions took place during the studies .

He completed his medical internships in neurology at the Belgian Neurological Institute in Brussels and at the Hôpital de la Salpêtrière in Paris. In autumn 1947 he started working as an assistant doctor at the Burghölzli Clinic in Zurich under Manfred Bleuler . From 1949 he was an assistant doctor for internal medicine at Inselspital in Bern and published his first publications on the psychosomatic problems of a diabetic. After moving to the Zurich Polyclinic, he continued his training with an analysis with Ernst Blum .

In 1953 he became senior physician at the Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Lausanne under Hans Steck and dealt intensively with the analytically oriented psychotherapy of schizophrenics . In 1957 he was brought from Bleuler as a senior physician in Zurich and in 1959 he was with the work over the senility of schizophrenics habilitation . In 1960 he applied for the chair of his former Hans Steck in Lausanne. There he was elected professor in 1961.

Clinic Director

He reformed the clinic, expanded the school for psychiatry nurses and nurses and arranged for a separate geriatric psychiatric center to be built.

He carried out a multi-year research program financed by the National Fund on the progression of mental illnesses. Together with Luc Ciompi , he was able to prove that the previous trend figures had to be corrected. The follow-up time for schizophrenia in her studies was the longest to date. He was asked several times to run for chairs in Germany and in 1975 accepted an offer to Bern, which he left after a few days due to unpleasant experiences with the health department and returned to his previous post in Lausanne.

For several years he was co-editor of the textbook Psychiatry of the Present and the series of monographs at Springer-Verlag , Heidelberg. He was commissioned by the cantonal governments of Freiburg, Solothurn, Lucerne and Thurgau to provide expert opinions on the organization of their psychiatric institutions. To train the assistants, he organized a four-year course for the first time in Switzerland with colleagues from the neighboring psychiatric institutions. In 1963 he became a member of the board of the Swiss Academy of Medicine . From 1978 to 1982 he was a member of the board of directors of the International Psychiatry Society and in the same years presided over the community of Swiss chief physicians in psychiatry. He was a member of the editorial team of the Swiss Archive for Neurology and Psychiatry , as well as the journal Der Nervenarzt , and founded the journal Sozialpsychiatrie together with Caspar Kulenkampff . From 1968 he was a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and made numerous trips to the German Democratic Republic . In 1959 he became a full member of the Swiss Society for Psychoanalysis . He was an honorary member of the Swiss Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy .

Further life

After his retirement in 1986, he settled on Lake Neuchâtel and in Bern, where he opened a practice and dealt intensively with the history of psychiatry . Together with Urs Boschung and Ms. Ammann, he designed the Swiss Psychiatry Museum in Bern, founded by Wolfgang Böker .

Christian Müller was born in 1947 with Madeleine. Schaetti married and had three children with her.

Awards

In 1971 Christian Müller received the Hermann Simon Prize for his work and the Theodor Nägeli Prize in 1976 . In 1980 the University of Heidelberg awarded him an honorary doctorate .

Publications

Of over 200 publications, the following should be mentioned:

  • About the senium of schizophrenics. At the same time a contribution to the problem of the schizophrenic end states (= Bibliotheca psychiatrica et neurologica. Vol. 106). Karger, Basel 1959 (= habilitation thesis , University of Zurich, 1959).
  • About psychotherapy for a chronic schizophrenic. In: Psyche . Vol. 9 (1955), edition 18, pp. 350–369 ( online ; PDF; 1.9 MB).
  • Manuel de Gerontopsychiatry. Masson, Paris 1959.
  • Geriatric psychiatry. Thieme, Stuttgart 1967.
    • French version: Manuel de géronto-psychiatrie. Masson, Paris 1969.
      • Revised edition (with Jean Wertheimer): Psychogériatrie. Masson, Paris 1981.
  • (Ed.) Lexicon of Psychiatry: Collected treatises of the most common psychopathological terms. Springer, Berlin 1973, 2nd edition 1986.
  • (with Luc Ciompi ) Life and age of the schizophrenics. Springer, Heidelberg 1976.
  • The development from a large hospital to community-based psychiatry. In: The neurologist . Vol. 47 (1976), pp. 295-299.
  • Psychiatric institutions. Your possibilities and limits. Springer, Berlin 1981.
  • Transformation of Psychiatric Institutions. In: Contemporary Psychiatry. Vol. 2. Springer, Berlin 1989, pp. 339-368.
  • The thoughts become palpable. Springer, Berlin 1992, 2nd edition 1994.
  • From madhouse to psychocenter. Pressler, Hürtgenwald 1993.
  • Portraits de psychiatres romands. Payot, Lausanne 1995.
  • Who freed the insane from their chains? Sketches for the history of psychiatry. Edition das Narrenschiff, Bonn 1998.
  • Etudes sur la psychotherapy of psychosis. Harmattan, Paris 1998.
  • Paul Dubois : A Forgotten Psychotherapist. Schwabe, Basel 2001.
  • Fight against crime in the institution state. Psychiatry, criminology and criminal law reform in Germany 1871–1933. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004 (dissertation, University of Essen, 2002).
  • Hermann Rorschach : Correspondence. Selected and ed. by Christian Müller and Rita Signer. Huber, Bern 2004.
  • Farewell to the madhouse. Essays on the history of psychiatry. Huber, Bern 2005.
  • Essays on the history of psychiatry. Pressler, Hürtgenwald 2009.
  • The Lathes in the History of Psychiatry. In: Gesnerus: Swiss Journal of the history of medicine and sciences. 55th year 1998, issue 1–2, pages 17 to 32

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Christian Müller (with picture) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on July 28, 2016.
  2. ↑ Neue Zürcher Zeitung , April 5, 2013, p. 14
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Münsingen BE
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 2013
Place of death Bern