Gerd Biermann

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Gerd Biermann (born September 19, 1914 in Berlin ; † December 27, 2006 in Brixen / South Tyrol) was a pediatrician and psychotherapist . Biermann is considered a pioneer of psychoanalytic child psychotherapy and psycho-hygienic reforms. He was co-founder and first director of the Brühl Institute for Mental Hygiene.

Live and act

Biermann, 1999 in Kefalonia , Greece

He spent his childhood in his hometown. After graduating from high school, he studied medicine in Berlin , Heidelberg and Freiburg im Breisgau . The young doctor initially worked as a pathologist , then trained as a pediatrician. He also trained as a psychoanalyst with Alexander Mitscherlich in Heidelberg and with Gustav Bally in Zurich.

He was the first German pediatrician to work at the Hamstead Clinic in London , run by Anna Freud . In the capital of England he also met Nelly Wolffheim , with whom he worked on the new edition of Freud's publication on child psychology in 1964/65 . From 1959 to 1970 he was head of the psychosomatic counseling center for children and adolescents at the University Children's Polyclinic in Munich.

Gerd Biermann was a co-founder of the renowned Institute for Mental Health in Brühl near Cologne, of which he became the first director in 1970. There he founded the Nelly Wolffheim Archive , which was transferred to the archive of the Pestalozzi Froebel House in Berlin in 1997 . He developed the Brühl model , which was about bringing together all services such as paediatricians, educational counseling and family therapy , school psychology and educational counseling , speech therapy and child psychotherapy under medical supervision in a multidisciplinary team.

In 1977, based on the Brühl model , he founded the Medical Academy for Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents, which to date has trained nearly 1,000 paediatricians and child and adolescent psychotherapists to become psychotherapists. It was u. a. his success that psycho-hygienic reforms in children's hospitals have been implemented everywhere in the last few decades. So the rooming-in , the common intake of mothers and fathers with their children in the hospital, now a matter of course.

Focus of work

His main focus was child psychotherapy, especially psychosomatics . Gerd Biermann set up psychosomatic departments at children's clinics in Heidelberg and Hamburg. He was editor of the handbook for child psychotherapy (in 5 volumes), for which he wrote several articles, and which is still a standard work of analytical child psychotherapy . The pioneer of child psychotherapy had published several monographs, for example on child abuse , on the children of Chernobyl and the depth psychological drawing test The Enchanted Family .

In his private life too, Gerd Biermann campaigned well into old age and supported by his wife and colleague Renate for the needs of children in need.

Works (selection)

  • Handbook of Child Psychotherapy, Munich 1969 to 1995 (5 volumes)
  • Children in school stress, Munich 1977
  • Mother and child in hospital, Munich 1978
  • Our sick children. New ways of their treatment, Munich 1984
  • The medical discussion with children and adolescents, Munich 1985
  • Nelly Wolffheim and Psychoanalytic Pedagogy, Giessen 1997
  • The enchanted family. A depth psychological drawing test, Munich 1999
  • The children of Chernobyl. Nadezhda. Hope through help, Munich 1999
  • Autogenic training with children and adolescents, Munich 1999
  • Traumatization in Childhood and Adolescence, Munich 2001

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SURNAME Biermann, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pediatrician and psychotherapist
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 2006
Place of death Brixen