Christine Swientek

Christine Swientek (* 1943 ) is a German educator, criminologist and university teacher. Her main areas of work are adoption (search), baby hatches and anonymous births and newborn killing .

Life

Christine Swientek studied psychiatry , social work and child and adolescent psychiatry in Kiel and then worked for several years as a social worker, among other things in the field of adoption placement. She then completed a further degree in educational sciences , psychology and sociology at the University of Hanover with a focus on pedagogy for behavioral disorders.

After working in prison (1976/77), she received her doctorate ( Dr. phil. ) In 1980 at the University of Hildesheim Foundation with the dissertation Autoaggressiveness in prisoners from an educational point of view . 1986 habilitation them at the University of Hanover about donating mothers in the adoption process .

Until her retirement, she taught as an adjunct professor at the Institute for Special Education at the University of Hanover . Swientek did research on neonaticide , adoption, suicide and social policy. She became known to a wider public as a vehement critic of the establishment of baby hatches. Swientek lives in Wölpinghausen .

Works (selection)

• Autoaggressiveness in prisoners from an educational point of view. Results of socio-educational work with prisoners at risk of suicide and suggestions for prophylaxis and crisis intervention (= criminological studies . Vol. 44). (also dissertation, Hildesheim Foundation University, 1980) Schwartz, Göttingen 1982, ISBN 978-3-509-01302-3 .
• "I gave my child away". The dark side of adoption . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1982. ISBN 3-499-15119-7 .
• The "giving away mother" in the adoption process. An investigation into the socio-economic conditions of the release for adoption, the mediation process and the psychosocial processing strategies (= theory and practice of women's studies . Vol. 4). (also habilitation thesis , University of Hanover 1986) Kleine, Bielefeld 1986, ISBN 978-3-88302-098-3 .
• Adopted in search of… their parents and their identity. Herder, Freiburg 2001. ISBN 3-451-05199-0 .
• Suspended - collapsed - anonymized: Germany's new foundlings . Kirchturm-Verlag, Burgdorf, 2007. ISBN 978-3-934117-10-5 .
• Last resort suicide. What drives old people to death. Herder, Freiburg 2008. ISBN 978-3-451-29979-7 .
• When women don't want to live anymore. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1990. ISBN 3-499-12785-7 .
• Newborn killing in Germany. When mothers kill. Viademica-Verlag, Berlin 2018. ISBN 978-3-939290-71-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Christine Swientek in the catalog of the German National Library
• Image accessed January 6, 2011