Friedemann Pfafflin

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Friedemann Pfäfflin (* 1945 ) is a German psychiatrist , sexologist , psychotherapist and university professor who gained public attention in the field of forensic psychiatry and gender identity.

Career

Pfäfflin is a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy . From 1978 to 1992 he worked in the department for sex research in the psychiatric and nervous clinic at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf . In 1992 he accepted a professorship for psychotherapy, combined with the management of the former Forensic Psychotherapy Section at the Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy at the Ulm University Hospital , where he worked until his retirement on September 30, 2010.

Focus of work

Pfäfflin's focus was on transsexualism, psychotherapeutic progress research, forensic psychiatry and psychotherapy and the history of psychiatry. He also worked as a forensic expert .

His work in the field of transsexuality began with an internship at the Psycho-Hormonal Research Unit of the Psychiatric Clinic at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore with John Money , the coordinator of the Gender Identity Clinic. During his time at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, one of the largest samples on transsexuality was carried out there. In the period from January 1, 1978 to March 31, 1992, he said he treated 616 patients with transsexual symptoms, including individual patients from abroad. He continued this work in Ulm.

Pfäfflin was initially skeptical to negative about hormonal and surgical treatments for transsexual people. He later recognized, however, that such treatment often contributes to an improvement in the living conditions and the psychological well-being of the patients and that the phenomenon is far more complex, not as typified and more complex than has been partially assumed by research.

From 1995 to 1997 he was President of the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association, Inc. In 1997, together with Eli Coleman, he founded The International Journal of Transgenderism

Mollath case

Pfäfflin gained public attention as an expert in the " Gustl Mollath case ". Mollath was established in 2006 as a public danger to the Bayreuth Regional Hospital , Department Clinic for Forensic Psychiatry admitted Bayreuth after 2003 complaint of black money transfers to employees of HypoVereinsbank had refunded. Pfäfflin later stated in an expert report that Mollath's statements were still to be regarded as a “delusional disorder” and thus confirmed the diagnosis of the admission. Mollath's thoughts, according to Pfäfflin, revolved around a "distant point of injustice" that is occurring in the world and which is the crystallization point of the delusional disorder. Since 2011, the political magazine Report Mainz has reported on the case several times.

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Pfäfflin also gained public attention through an exonerating opinion in the case of a monk from the Benedictine monastery in Ettal, who in February 2015 confessed to the sexual abuse that he had been accused of for years before the Munich II district court, see Münchner Merkur and Münchner Kirchennachrichten
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Fonts (selection)

  • with Hendrik van den Bussche and Christoph Mai: The Medical Faculty of the Hamburg University and the Eppendorf University Hospital. In: Eckart Krause, Ludwig Huber, Holger Fischer (eds.): Everyday university life in the »Third Reich«. The Hamburg University 1933–1945. 3rd part. Berlin / Hamburg 1991 (= Hamburg contributions to the history of science. Volume 3), pp. 1259–1384.
  • with Astrid Junge: gender reassignment. Treatises on transsexuality. Schattauer, Stuttgart et al. 1992, ISBN 3-7945-1512-9 .
  • Transsexuality: Contributions to psychopathology, psychodynamics and the course. Enke, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-432-25921-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedemann Pfäfflin: Transsexuality: Contributions to psychopathology, psychodynamics and the course. P. 13 f.
  2. ^ Friedemann Pfäfflin: scalpel or couch? Transsexual Problems. In: Der Spiegel No. 7/1980 (available on the Internet , PDF of the original edition )
  3. ↑ Barbara Kamprad, Waltraud Schiffels (ed.): In the wrong body. Kreuz Verlag Zürich 1991, p. 114, Interview Pfäfflin von Kamprad
  4. ↑ Report from February 12, 2011 [1] (PDF; 25.8 MB)
  5. ^ Constitutional complaint from Gustl Mollath. [2] (PDF; 4.2 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Pfäfflin, Friedemann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatrist, sexologist, psychotherapist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1945