Dieter Vaitl

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Dieter Vaitl (* 1940 ) is a German psychologist, scientist and book author.

Life

After graduating from the humanistic grammar school in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Vaitl studied philosophy and theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome (licentiate in philosophy 1962) and psychology at the University of Freiburg (diploma in 1967) with a scholarship from the Bavarian state ( scholarship for particularly gifted people ) . From 1967 to 1969 he was an assistant in the psychosomatic department of the University Children's Hospital in Freiburg. In 1969 he went to the Psychological Institute of the University of Münster. There he received his doctorate in 1973 and in the same year received a professorship (H3) for psychophysiology and methodology. In 1975 he was offered the chair for clinical and physiological psychology at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen , which he held until his retirement in 2005. There he founded the Institute for Psychobiology and Behavioral Medicine in 1988 and the Bender Institute of Neuroimaging (BION) in 2000 , in which a magnetic resonance tomograph is used for psychological research. Since 2001 he has headed the Institute for Border Areas of Psychology and Mental Hygiene (IGPP) in Freiburg im Breisgau . From 1997 to 2002 he headed an international research network on the subject of " Altered states of consciousness ", which dealt with the neuroscientific research of trance , hypnosis , meditation and hallucinations .

Services

From 1982 to 1988 Vaitl was the founding president of the German Society for Psychophysiology and Its Application (DGPA) and President of the Association of European Psychophysiology Societies (FEPS) (1994–1996). He is a member of several scientific societies: Fellow of the International Organization of Psychophysiology , Member of the Scientific Society of the University of Frankfurt, Member of the Center for the Study of Emotion and Attention of the National Institute of Mental Health (USA), at the University of Florida. Through his research and academic teaching, he contributed to the biological orientation of German psychology. For many years he was an expert reviewer for the German Research Foundation .

In 1983, together with Renate Frank, he developed a further training program for the accreditation of prospective psychological psychotherapists, which served nationwide as a model for postgraduate programs in behavioral therapy.

Vaitl carried out clinically relevant basic research in the following research areas and published the results of its studies in renowned specialist journals and compilations:

Awards

  • 1997: German Psychology Prize for his work in clinically relevant psychophysiological research and his commitment to the further training of clinical psychologists.
  • 2007: Honorary member of the German Society for Psychophysiology and its Application (DGPA).

Fonts (selection)

  • Hypertension (Advances in Psychotherapy, Volume 13). Hogrefe, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 978-3-8017-1124-5 .
  • Meditation: Neurobiological basics and clinical application. Steiner, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-515-10286-5 .
  • Altered states of consciousness: Basics - Techniques - Phenomenology. Schattauer, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-7945-2549-2 .
  • (with F. Petermann): Relaxation process: The practical handbook. 5th edition. Beltz, Weinheim 2014, ISBN 978-3-621-28125-6 .
  • (with G. Mayer, M. Schetsche, I. Schmied-Knittel): At the limits of knowledge. Manual of Scientific Anomalies. Schattauer, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-608-42922-0 .
  • Ordinary madmen: The spectrum of extraordinary experiences. Steiner, Stuttgart 2020, ISBN 978-3-515-12730-1 .
  • (Ed.): At the limits of our knowledge. About the fascination of the paranormal. Herder, Freiburg i. Br. 2020, ISBN 978-3-451-38737-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The BION - yesterday and today . Homepage at the University of Giessen. Retrieved October 11, 2014.
  2. ↑ P. Grossmann, KHL Janssen, D. Vaitl (Ed.): Cardiorespiratory and Cardiosomatic Psychophysiology. Plenary, New York 1986.
  3. ↑ D. Vaitl, R. Schandry (Eds.): From the heart to the brain. Lang, Frankfurt 1995.
  4. ↑ Neurobiology of fear and disgust . In: International Journal of Psychophysiology , 57 (1), pp. 1-4, PMID 15935257 .
  5. ↑ D. Vaitl: Neurobiology of emotions . In: G. Schiepek: Neurobiology of Psychotherapy. Schattauer, Stuttgart 2011.
  6. ↑ Psychobiology of Altered States of Consciousness . In: Psychological Bulletin , 131 (1), pp. 98-127, PMID 15631555 .
  7. ^ German Psychology Prize - Former Prize Winners . Retrieved October 11, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Vaitl, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1940