Doris Ryffel-Rawak

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Doris Ryffel-Rawak (* 1945 in Montevideo , Uruguay as Doris Rawak ) is a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy and the author of several specialist books on the subject of attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) as well as a co-author of various specialist books and medical journals. As a member of the "European ADHD Network" she gave lectures and advanced training courses in Germany and abroad.

Life

Doris Ryffel-Rawak was born as the daughter of German-Jewish emigrants in Montevideo, Uruguay, and grew up there. After graduating from high school, she and her parents moved to Germany at the age of 20, where she studied medicine. With her dissertation The gallstone of 29 June 1970 she completed her doctorate at the Medical Faculty Mannheim of Heidelberg University to Dr. med. After finishing her studies, she married and moved to Switzerland. After a ten-year hiatus, she resumed her medical career and became a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy .

As a resident doctor with her own practice in Bremgarten near Bern , Ryffel-Rawak primarily focused on the issue of attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder in adults . As the author of ADHD guides, she gained national recognition.

In addition to her practical work, she has given lectures and further training courses at home and abroad. Ryffel-Rawak was instrumental in founding self-help organizations for adult ADHD sufferers in Switzerland and the Swiss Association for ADHD (SFG-ADHD) in 2005.

Ryffel-Rawak has also been an artist since her youth. Her works were initially exhibited in Switzerland and, since 2005, mainly in her home country Uruguay. She has published two volumes of poetry in Montevideo , Sutilezas (2008) and Imprudencias (2010). In 2013 her first novel was published , Looking for traces on the Río de la Plata , which was also presented at the Goethe-Institut in Montevideo with a reading in German and Spanish in 2014 . In the novel, her actual life story mixes with fiction: On the one hand, she processes her own childhood and youth in Uruguay, on the other hand, she invents "a turbulent love story with a Latin lover" at the same time.

Ryffel-Rawak is the mother of three grown sons and a grandmother. She lives in Uruguay and Switzerland.

Publications

Selection of publications by Doris Ryffel-Rawak:

ADHD counselor

  • ADHD in adults. Those affected report from their lives . 2., revised. Edition. Huber, Bern 2007, ISBN 978-3-456-84466-4 (1st edition: ADS in adults , 2001).
  • We feel different! How affected adults with ADHD experience themselves and their partnership . 3. revised Edition 2016; Hogrefe Verlag, Bern ISBN 978-3-456-85672-8 (1st edition: 2003).
  • ADHD in women - at the mercy of feelings. 4th, updated edition 2017; Hogrefe Verlag, Bern; ISBN 978-3-456-85824-1 (1st edition: 2004).
  • ADHD and partnership - a challenge. 1st edition. Huber, Bern 2007, ISBN 978-3-456-84455-8 .
  • Our multifaceted life . ADHD collagen to make you smile. Defying adversity, sometimes laughing liberally. 1st edition 2017. Verlag tredition GmbH, Hamburg ISBN 978-3-7439-5643-8

Novels

  • Searching for traces on the Río de la Plata. Records of a Jewish emigration to Uruguay . Acabus, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86282-189-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ryffel-Rawak, Doris . Acabus-Verlag website, accessed January 17, 2016.
  2. ^ Doris Ryffel-Rawak: Curriculum . Private website, accessed January 17, 2016.
  3. ↑ Looking for traces on the Río de la Plata . Goethe-Institut Uruguay, book presentation on November 26, 2014, accessed on January 17, 2016.
  4. ↑ Luzia Stettler: A declaration of love to Uruguay . Swiss Radio and Television (SRF), July 21, 2014, accessed on January 17, 2016.
  5. ↑ Andreas Refardt: Doris Ryffel-Rawak: We feel different! (PDF; 72 kB). In: Swiss Society for Pediatrics: Paediatrica . 14th vol., No. 4, 2003, p. 72 (review).
personal data
SURNAME Ryffel-Rawak, Doris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rawak, Doris (maiden name); Ryffel, Doris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Psychiatrist, psychologist and author
DATE OF BIRTH before 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Montevideo , Uruguay