Dieter Beck

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Dieter Beck (March 4, 1935 - March 26, 1980 ) was a Swiss psychiatrist .

Life

Dieter Beck received his doctorate in 1960 from the University of Basel . In 1968 he received his habilitation there. In 1973 he was awarded the Dupois Prize of the Swiss Medical Society for Psychotherapy.

Beck was head of the psychosomatic ward of the medical university polyclinic and associate professor for psychosomatics and psychiatry at the University of Basel.

He argued that physical illnesses "often represent an attempt to compensate for a mental injury, to repair an internal loss or to resolve an unconscious conflict".

He was shot dead by a relative of a patient.

Fonts (selection)

  • Vegetative examinations, therapy and prognosis of exhaustion depression. In: Swiss Archive for Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry . Vol. 90 (1962), H. 2, pp. 370-391 (dissertation, University of Basel, 1962).
  • Gallstone disease from a psychosomatic aspect (= Journal for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychoanalysis . Supplement No. 1). Publishing house for medical psychology in the publishing house Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1970.
  • Brief psychotherapy: an introduction from a psychoanalytic aspect. Huber, Bern 1974.
  • Illness as self-healing: How physical illnesses can be an attempt at mental healing. Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1981.

literature

  • Prof. Dr. med. Dieter Beck March 4th, 1935– March 26th, 1980. In: Swiss Archive for Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry. 128: 307 (1981).

Individual evidence

  1. Kürschner's German Scholar Calendar . 13th edition (1980). P. 173.
  2. † Professor Dieter Beck (1935), Head of the Psychosomatic Ward of the Medical ... , Basler Chronik, website of the Basler Stadtbuch, accessed on April 6, 2018.
  3. Dieter Beck: Illness as self-healing. Quoted in: Kurt Fritzsche et al .: Basic psychosomatic care. Springer, Berlin 2003, p. 72 ( online ).
  4. Minutes of the 4th Assembly of Delegates (DV) of the Swiss Academy for Psychosomatic and Psychosocial Medicine SAPPM from May 26th, 2011, 6:00 pm - 7:15 pm, Lindenhofspital, Bern (PDF; 92 kB), website of the Swiss Academy for Psychosomatic and Psychosocial People Medicine, accessed January 7, 2012.