Günter Ammon

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Günter Ammon (born May 9, 1918 in Berlin ; † September 3, 1995 there ) was a German psychoanalyst and founder of the Berlin School of Dynamic Psychiatry , the German Academy for Psychoanalysis .

Ammon spent his childhood and youth in the house at Grosse Hamburger Strasse 36. There is a plaque next to the entrance .

Life

Günter Ammon studied medicine, psychology , philosophy , anthropology and archeology in Berlin, Heidelberg and Greifswald. He underwent a major Freudian training analysis with Carl Müller-Braunschweig at the Berlin Psychoanalytical Institute of the IPV and a second ego-psychological training analysis with Isaac Ramsey in Topeka. For almost ten years he worked as a psychiatrist at the Menninger Foundation in Topeka / USA, where, together with Menninger, Frank, Applebaum, and Horwitz, he dedicated himself to the reintroduction of group therapy at the Menninger Clinic.

Back from the USA, Ammon became a lecturer and head of the student advice center at the Free University of Berlin in 1967 . Starting out from American dynamic psychiatry, he founded the German Group Therapeutic Society (DGG) and the specialist journal Dynamische Psychiatrie / Dynamic Psychiatry in 1968 . In the following year, the German Academy for Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry (DAP) and the Berlin Teaching and Research Institute (LFI). He founded the dynamic psychiatric clinic Menterschwaige ( Munich ) and in 1970 a group dynamic conference center of the DAP in Paestum (southern Italy). He was also the founder and president of the World Association for Dynamic Psychiatry (WADP). In 1995 he completed his habilitation at the Bechterew Institute in St. Petersburg .

For his services to the preservation of the ancient archaeological site Paestum , he was made an honorary citizen of the southern Italian community of Capaccio . As one of the few foreigners, he was given the honor of being buried in the Capri cemetery.

Grave on the island of Capri

Fonts (selection)

  • 1959: The Theoretical Aspects of Milieu Therapy
  • 1970: Group dynamics of aggression
  • 1972: group dynamics of creativity
  • 1973: group psychotherapy. Contributions to the theory and technique of schools of psychoanalytic group therapy
  • 1975: Psychotherapy of the psychoses
  • 1979: Child abuse
  • 1979: (Editor) Handbook of Dynamic Psychiatry , Volume 1
  • 1982: (Editor) Handbook of Dynamic Psychiatry , Volume 2
  • 1986: The multidimensional man. On the holistic view of people and science , 2nd edition 1995, 3rd edition 2019
  • 1998: The borderline syndrome. Disease of our time

literature

  • Hansjörg Hemminger: The therapeutic realm of Dr. Ammon. An Inquiry into the Psychology of Totalitarian Cults. Quell-Verlag, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-7918-2341-8 .
  • Maria Ammon (Ed.): WADP (World Association for Dynamic Psychiatry) 25 years: what is new in psychiatry? Pinel-Verlag, Berlin 2007

Honors

Web links

Commons : Günter Ammon  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Burbiel, Ilse: Günter Ammon - life and work. Retrieved June 12, 2020 .
  2. ^ Günter Ammon: The multidimensional man. Mattes, Heidelberg, 3rd edition 2019, p. 442.
  3. ^ Günter Ammon: The multidimensional man. Mattes, Heidelberg, 3rd edition 2019, p. 442.
  4. ↑ Knaurs Prominentenlexikon (3rd edition), p. 15.
personal data
SURNAME Ammon, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychoanalyst
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 3, 1995
Place of death Berlin