Esther Fischer-Homberger

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Esther Fischer-Homberger in the garden of her house in Bern

Esther Fischer-Homberger (born May 15, 1940 in Affoltern am Albis , Canton of Zurich ; † March 21, 2019 ) was a Swiss psychiatrist and medical historian .

Career

After attending school in Zollikon near Zurich and Basel , she completed a medical degree in Neuchâtel and Zurich, which she completed with a doctorate in psychiatry history called Circular Insanity . From 1968 to 1973 she was assistant to Erwin Heinz Ackerknecht at the Medical History Institute of the University of Zurich . After her habilitation with The Traumatic Neurosis. From somatic to social suffering in 1975 at the University of Zurich, she worked from 1978 to 1984 at the Chair of Medical History at the University of Bern , from which she resigned in 1984 in favor of psychotherapeutic practice. In 1993 she graduated from Esalen Institute, California with a Massage Practitioner Diploma . Since 1997 she has also been a therapist for catathymic imaginative psychotherapy and since 2005, after an assistant at the crisis intervention center of the University Psychiatric Services Bern (KIZ / UPD Bern), she has also been a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy.

She was interested in the psychological and social functionality or dysfunction of words and concepts, especially in psychiatric, psychotherapeutic and medical use. She is considered a free thinker . Her research interests included the history of psychiatry, psychosomatics and forensic medicine as well as the medical history of women. Her publications and texts have also been received internationally as theory-building and feminist. She did research on Pierre Janet (1849–1947). From 1961 to 2015 she worked as a film reviewer for various media.

Fischer-Homberger was married to Kaspar Fischer (1938–2000) from 1965 to 1988 . Their children were a son and twins, a son, and a daughter. Since 1984 she lived with Marie-Luise Könneker together with her son in the same household in Bern.

Hubert Steinke wrote in his obituary on April 17, 2019 in the Schweizer Ärztezeitung:

“The daily newspapers are amazed at the statistically proven effect that men's suffering is taken more seriously and that these are treated more quickly in an emergency. In women, medicine pays particular attention to specific women's diseases; other symptoms such as chronic pain or migraines are often rashly ticked off as typical female, hormonal or psychological ailments. One could also speak of the “woman's disease” and thus use the title of a book that Esther Fischer-Homberger published 40 years ago. At a time when medical history was still very much concerned with the successes of great men and gender history was only slowly developing in this country, she examined the male view of the female body. She explained how nervousness, hypochondria, hysteria and menstruation were constructed as diseases inscribed in the female body. Even if Fischer-Homberger made decidedly critical and historical arguments, her fluent texts could always be read as a contribution to current debates. "

Publications (selection)

  • The circular insanity. Juris, Zurich 1968 (Zurich medical-historical treatises, new series, volume 53).
  • Hypochondria. Melancholy to neurosis: diseases and conditions. Huber, Bern 1970.
  • The traumatic neurosis. From somatic to social suffering. Huber, Bern 1975, ISBN 3-456-80123-8 ; Psychosocial, Giessen 2004, ISBN 3-89806-275-9 .
  • History of medicine. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 1975; 2nd edition ibid 1977, ISBN 3-540-07225-X .
  • Disease woman and other works on the medical history of women. Huber, Bern 1979, ISBN 3-456-80688-4 .
  • Medicine in court. Forensic medicine from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Huber, Bern 1983, ISBN 3-456-81282-5 .
  • Jelly dishes, devil's kitchens (edited with Marie-Luise Könneker). Luchterhand, Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-630-86732-4 .
  • Hunger - heart - pain - gender. Breaks and joints in the image of body and soul. eFeF, Bern 1997, ISBN 3-905561-14-X .

literature

  • Urs Boschung: The Esther Fischer-Homberger Era, 1978-1984 . In: Medical history at the University of Bern. From the beginning until 2011 . Pp. 94–-106 ( PDF )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DLB CH: Esther Fischer-Homberger died , accessed on March 27, 2019.
  2. ↑ Prof. em. Dr. Esther Fischer-Homberger. (No longer available online.) April 1, 2016, archived from the original on March 27, 2019 ; accessed on March 17, 2019 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.img.unibe.ch
  3. ↑ Esther Fischer-Homberger: "The circular insanity." 1968 . In: EH Ackerknecht (Hrsg.): Zürcher medizingeschichtliche Abhandlungen . New series No. 53. Zurich 1968.
  4. ↑ Esther Fischer-Homberger: The traumatic neurosis. From somatic to social suffering . Huber, Bern 1975, ISBN 3-89806-275-9 , p. (Reprinted Psychosocial, Giessen 2004) .
  5. ↑ https://www.img.unibe.ch/ueber_uns/lösungen/prof_em_dr_fischer_homberger__2019_esther/index_ger.html , accessed on July 7, 2020
  6. ↑ Mark S. Micale: Beyond the Unconscious: Essays of Henri F. Ellenberger in the History of Psychiatry . Princeton University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-1-4008-6342-6 ( google.ch [accessed March 17, 2019]).
  7. ↑ Janet Price, Margrit Shildrick: Feminist Theory and the Body: A Reader . Routledge, 2017, ISBN 978-1-351-56709-1 ( google.ch [accessed March 17, 2019]).
  8. ^ JA Mangan, Roberta J. Park: From Fair Sex to Feminism: Sport and the Socialization of Women in the Industrial and Post-Industrial Eras . Routledge, 2013, ISBN 978-1-135-17570-2 ( google.ch [accessed March 17, 2019]).
  9. ^ Les Femmes Dans la Societe Europeenne Women in European society . Librairie Droz, ISBN 978-2-600-05055-5 ( google.ch [accessed on March 17, 2019]).
  10. ↑ Esther Fischer-Homberger. Retrieved March 17, 2019 .
  11. ^ Hubert Steinke: In memoriam Esther Fischer-Homberger . In: Swiss Medical Journal . tape 100 , no. 16 , April 17, 2019, p. 575-575 , doi : 10.4414 / saez.2019.17786 ( saez.ch [accessed June 1, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Fischer-Homberger, Esther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss psychiatrist and medical historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 2019