Ernst Berger (doctor)

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Ernst Berger (born December 13, 1946 in Vienna ) is an Austrian psychiatrist , neurologist and child neuropsychiatrist.

Life

Berger completed his habilitation in 1982; since 1999 he has been an associate professor at the university . After more than a decade at the University Clinic in Vienna , Ernst Berger took over the position of Primarius at the Neurological Center Rosenhügel in 1990 .

From 1986 to 2010 Ernst Berger was a consultant for the Psychosocial Service of the City of Vienna, responsible for the field of youth and handicapped psychiatry. From 2001 to 2006 he was project manager for the city of Vienna for child and adolescent psychiatric care. In 2002 Berger was one of the initiators of the popular initiative “Welfare State Austria”. In 2006 he led the psychosocial team that took care of Natascha Kampusch , who was kidnapped in 1998 . This team also included Max Friedrich , with whom Ernst Berger had worked closely since the late 1970s.

Berger's fields of work and research include the areas of social medicine , social psychiatry (children and adolescents), developmental neurology, neurorehabilitation in children and adolescents, as well as education and psychiatry for the disabled .

Ernst Berger teaches at the Medical University of Vienna (child and adolescent psychiatry) and the Danube University Krems .

In 2012, Ernst Berger was appointed head of one of the commissions for human rights by the Ombudsman's Office (Commission 4 - responsible for Vienna's districts 3 to 19 and 23).

Ernst Berger has been on the advisory board of Instahelp, a start-up for psychological online counseling, since 2015.

Ernst Berger has published over 150 scientific papers and in 2008 awarded a sponsorship award for social psychiatric research endowed with 1000 euros annually. In 2018 Ernst Berger, together with his son René Berger, donated the Ferdinand Berger Prize, which is awarded every year by the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance .

Awards

Publications

Monographs

  • Developmental neurological examination in the first three years of life: an empirical contribution to the theory of the functional development of the brain. Thieme, Stuttgart 1982.
  • with Max H. Friedrich , Bibiana Schuch: Behavioral assessment in children and adolescents: General and special psychopathology. Thieme, Stuttgart 1985.
  • School Problems: Causes and Suggestions for Coping Advice for Parents, Teachers, and Students. Trias, Stuttgart 1989.
  • Neuropsychological basics of child development. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2010.

Editorships

  • Partial performance weaknesses in children. Huber, Bern 1977.
  • Minimal cerebral dysfunction in children: critical review of the literature. Huber, Bern 1977.
  • Persecuted childhood: children and young people as victims of the Nazi social administration. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2007.
  • with Georg Feuser : Recognize and act: Moments of a cultural-historical (handicapped) education and therapy. For Wolfgang Jantzen on his 60th birthday. Pro Business, Berlin 2002.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berger Ernst on Physikus - Biobibliographical portal of the representatives of the Vienna Medical School (s), accessed on October 3, 2013.
  2. ^ Website of the popular initiative “Welfare State Austria”: The initiators of the popular initiative ( Memento of October 22, 2001 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Commission 4: Vienna , website of the Ombudsman Board, accessed on November 2, 2016.
  4. ↑ Instahelp.me - About us. Retrieved June 9, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Berger, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian neurologist and psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna