Daniel Hell

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Daniel Hell (born July 18, 1944 in Uzwil ) is a Swiss psychiatrist , psychotherapist and emeritus professor of clinical psychiatry. Hell takes a holistic approach to treating mental illness.

Career

Daniel Hell studied medicine at the Universities of Basel and Zurich , where he received his doctorate in 1971 . After various assistant and senior physician positions , he completed his habilitation in 1982 at the University of Zurich on marriages of depressed and schizophrenic people. In 1984 he was elected chief physician at the Breitenau Psychiatric Clinic, Schaffhausen (Switzerland). In the following years he converted the Schaffhausen Clinic into the first psychiatric center in Switzerland with continuous outpatient and inpatient treatment.

In 1991 Hell was appointed medical director of the Psychiatric University Clinic Zurich (PUK), and in the same year he was appointed full professor for clinical psychiatry. At the PUK, Hell formed treatment priorities, e.g. B. for affective, old age and addicts as well as for women with small children and for migrants. In addition to outpatient and semi-inpatient offers, he also introduced the partial opening of the wards and networked inpatient with outpatient treatment according to the sector model. He was chairman of the “Psychiatry Concept of the Canton of Zurich” working group set up by the Government Council, according to which cantonal psychiatry was reorganized close to the community.

In order to critically reflect on the largely biologically oriented thinking in academic psychiatry today , he suggested the establishment of a philosophy course for specialists in medicine and psychotherapy at the clinic in 2004 and generalized this initiative in 2007 by founding an "Institute Entresol" named after a historical model, From which emerged the network of the same name for philosophy, psychoanalysis and the sciences of the psyche for all of Switzerland in autumn 2008.

In 2009, after his retirement from PUK , Hell moved to the Hohenegg private clinic in Meilen , where he headed the “Depression and Anxiety” competence center until 2014. Since 2015, Hell has been involved as a board member of the Hohenegg Foundation in a socio-psychiatric way for marginalized and seriously mentally ill people and is also continuing his outpatient practice.

Teaching and research focus

Hell is a specialist in affective and psychotic diseases in their neuroscientific and anthropological complexity. He studies such disorders taking into account their socio-cultural, psychological and biological framework conditions and advocates an interdisciplinary, holistic approach and therapy. He opposes reductionism , which reduces people to material aspects. In addition to neurobiological research, knowledge and understanding of vulnerability, situations of loss and overstrain, relationship conflicts and personal difficulties of people are also required . In such difficult life situations, people often need psychiatric and psychotherapeutic help. Better self-awareness, psychotherapy, sociotherapy and psychotropic drugs can be possible, complementary therapeutic approaches.

Hell makes this topic accessible to the public in several books, lectures and interviews.

Memberships, activities

Hell was a member of the National Ethics Commission in Human Medicine (NEK). He is co-founder and since 2012 advisory board of «sintegrA», an organization for the social and professional integration of people with mental disabilities, and president of the association «Host Families for the Mentally Ill», which has been running a pilot project for the care of acutely mentally ill in host families since 2004 (as Alternative to hospitalization). Hell works as the editor of the Swiss Archive for Neurology and Psychiatry , is the initiator and board member of the Society for the History of Swiss Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (GGSP) and a member of the board of trustees of the non-profit foundations "Accentus" and "Empiris".

Fonts (selection)

  • Marriages of depressed and schizophrenic people: A comparative study on 103 patients and their spouses (= monographs from the entire field of psychiatry. Volume 33). Habilitation thesis . Springer, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-540-11775-X .
  • with Magret Gestefeld: Schizophrenia. Orientation aids for those affected. Springer, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-540-18660-3 .
    • with Daniel Schüpbach: Schizophrenia: A guide for patients and relatives. 5th, completely revised edition. Springer, Heidelberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-662-48932-1 .
  • What is the point of depression? An integrative approach. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1992, ISBN 3-499-19649-2 .
  • Understand the language of the soul. The desert fathers as therapists. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2002, ISBN 3-451-05191-5 .
  • with Heinz Böker: Therapy of affective disorders: Psychosocial and neurobiological perspectives. Schattauer, Stuttgart / New York 2002, ISBN 3-7945-2183-8 .
  • Soul hunger. The Sentient Man and the Sciences of Life. Huber, Bern 2003, ISBN 3-456-83983-9 .
    • abridged and revised paperback edition: Seelenhunger. From the sense of feelings. 2nd Edition. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2009, ISBN 978-3-451-05826-4 .
  • with Jérôme Endrass and Jürg Vontobel: Short textbook on psychiatry. The basic knowledge with review questions. Huber, Bern 2003.
    • 3rd, revised edition. Huber, Bern 2011, ISBN 978-3-456-84995-9 (with Jérôme Endrass, Jürg Vontobel, Ulrich Schnyder).
  • Upswing for the soul: ways of inner liberation. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2005, ISBN 3-451-05572-4 .
    • Revised, expanded new edition: The return of the soul: We are more than brain and spirit. 2nd Edition. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2010, ISBN 978-3-451-30126-1 .
  • Life as a gift and an answer. Wisdom of the desert fathers. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2005, ISBN 3-451-05624-0 .
  • Depression - What's Right? The most important answers. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2007, ISBN 978-3-451-05817-2 .
    • Revised, expanded new edition: Depression - Knowing what's right . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2015, ISBN 978-3-451-61365-4 .
  • The return of the soul - We are more than brain and spirit. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2009, ISBN 978-3-451-30126-1 .
  • with Helga Kessler: Ways out of the depression. Burn-out, life crisis, stress: help for those affected and their families. Observer, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-85569-468-6 .
  • Depression as a disturbance of balance. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-17-021713-3 .
  • Illness as a mental challenge. Schwabe, Basel 2013; 2nd edition 2014, ISBN 978-3-7965-2896-5 .
  • Praise of shame - only those who respect themselves can be ashamed. Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2018; ISBN 978-3-8379-2810-5 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Network entresol
  2. ↑ Media release ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Hohenegg Foundation, January 7, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hohenegg.ch
  3. ↑ A conversation with Daniel Hell about the concept of the soul, about mental ailments and their treatment. Nobody feels sorry for a brain. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . Zurich, May 8, 2015, p. 49.
  4. ↑ club sintegra
  5. ^ Association of host families for the mentally ill
  6. ^ Accentus Foundation
  7. ↑ Empiris Foundation
personal data
SURNAME Hell, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist, university professor and author
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Uzwil