Gerhard Medicus

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Gerhard Medicus (born June 12, 1950 in Salzburg ) is an Austrian human ethologist and psychiatrist who thinks about evolutionary biology .

Life

In 1982 Gerhard Medicus received his doctorate in medicine from the University of Innsbruck . The following year he became research assistant to Rupert Riedl at the Zoological Institute of the University of Vienna . Between 1985 and 1988 he completed his training as a general practitioner at the Innsbruck clinic and then as a specialist in psychiatry at the regional hospital in Hall (1989–1993). From 1994 to 2015 he worked in Hall as a specialist and most recently as senior physician at the psychiatric day clinic.

Medicus has been a freelancer in the human ethology group in the Max Planck Society since 1988 , first in Andechs and later in Seewiesen . As a freelancer, he collaborated on several research projects on the Trobriand Islands ( Papua New Guinea ), with the Eipo in the highlands of Western New Guinea ( Indonesia ), on the Moluccas (Indonesia), in Himbaland ( Namibia ) as well as in Vanuatu and Burkina Faso .

From 1990 to 2010 Medicus read the lecture Human Ethology at the Institute for Psychology at the University of Innsbruck together with Margret Schleidt and Wulf Schiefenhövel , and since 2010 he has only read with Schiefenhövel.

Some of Gerhard Medicus' scientific contributions have found their way into specialist and non-fiction books as well as into scientific lexicons: Overviews of the behavioral evolution of vertebrates (e.g. evolutionary roots of cognition , of property behavior and of ranking and hierarchy, biopsychology of gender difference, roots of moral ability , on the evolution of consciousness ). He was able to show that the basic biogenetic rule has no relevance for the child's psychomotor development. His contributions also include foundations for psychotherapy . In addition, his work also deals with the interdisciplinary nature of the natural sciences and the humanities in terms of scientific theory .

Medicus has summarized his most important contributions in the book What Unites Us - Offers for Understanding between Natural, Cultural and Humanities (fifth extended edition in 2020). The English edition was published in 2015; In the foreword, Wulf Schiefenhövel points out that the book could prove to be a contribution to the theory of psychology. In summary, the philosopher Gerhard Vollmer writes that the book is about “a theory of interdisciplinarity that is supposed to combine the natural sciences and the humanities”.

Publications

  • 1985: Evolutionary Psychology. In: JA Ott, GP Wagner, FM Wuketits (Eds.), Evolution, Order and Knowledge , Berlin: Paul Parey, pp. 126–150.
  • 1987: Toward an Etho-Psychology: A Phylogenetic Tree of Behavioral Capabilities Proposed as a Common Basis for Communication between Current Theories in Psychology and Psychiatry. In: JR Feierman (ed.), The Ethology of Psychiatric Populations ; Ethology and Sociobiology, Vol. 8, No. 3S (supplement). New York: Elsevier, pp. 131-150 ( DOI: 10.1016 / 0162-3095 (87) 90025-2 ).
  • Medicus G. & S. Hopf, 1990: The Phylogeny of Male / Female Differences in Sexual Behavior. In: JR Feierman (ed.), Pedophilia, Biosocial Dimensions , New York: Springer, pp. 122-149 ( DOI: 10.1007 / 978-1-4613-9682-6_5 ).
  • 1992: The Inapplicability of the Biogenetic Rule to Behavioral Development. Human Development, 35, Issue 1, pp. 1-8 ( DOI: 10.1159 / 000277108 ).
  • 1995: Ethological Aspects of Aggression. Evolution and Cognition, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 54-63.
  • 2005: Mapping Transdisciplinarity in Human Sciences. In: JW Lee (ed.), Focus on Gender Identity . New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc., pp. 95-114.
  • 2010: Zoon politikon: Biopsychological Aspects. In: Brüne M., Salter F., and McGrew WC (eds.), Building Bridges between Anthropology, Medicine and Human Ethology - Tributes to W. Schiefenhövel. Bochum: European University Press.
  • 2012: “What unites us humans - offers for communication between natural, cultural and human sciences”. Berlin: Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung, (all editions 600 copies each) 5th revised and expanded edition 2020, ISBN 978-3-86135-616-5 ; Translations into English (2nd edition, ISBN 978-3-86135-587-8 ) and Russian ( ISBN 978-5-907117-89-1 )
  • 2015: Being Human. Bridging the Gap between the Sciences of Body and Mind. Berlin: Publishing house for science and education. 2nd edition 2017, ISBN 978-3-86135-584-7 (English edition).

Web links

  • [1] Keyword human dignity, Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau 1.2018
  • [2] Keyword ranking, Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau 3,2019
  • Dr. Gerhard Medicus Personal details in the ZPID , with a link to the list of publications
  • Gerhard Medicus entry in the FamilienWIKI
  • [3] Lecture Human ethology and the understanding of personality disorder, April 10, 2019

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt : The biology of human behavior - outline of human ethology. 3. Edition. Piper, Munich 1995, p. 206. Helmut Pechlaner writes in Vetmed magazine (2012, 2: p. 32): “A fascinating book that makes our animal mirror images scientifically structured and well-founded understandable, so that the partial special position of humans is concise and thus contributes important findings to the central question of who and what we humans really are. "
  2. ↑ Lexikon der Biologie (1999-2004): Keyword Humanity (2001, Volume 7, p. 264). Heidelberg Spectrum Academic Publishing House.
  3. ↑ Frans de Waal (2011): The principle of empathy , Munich, Hanser.
  4. ↑ Lexicon of Biology (1999-2004), keyword Biogenetic Basic Rule (1999, Volume 2, P. 12 f.) Heidelberg, Spektrum Akademischer Verlag.
  5. ↑ Lexikon der Biologie (1999–2004): Keyword Ethology (2000, Volume 5, p. 210) and interdisciplinary (2001, Volume 7, p. 410). Heidelberg, spectrum academic publisher.
  6. ↑ See review by Gerhard Vollmer , first published in Naturwissenschaftlichen Rundschau 7/2012.
  7. ^ Foreword to the English edition, p. 12: “To date, there is no comprehensive, unifying theory of psychology. The various subdisciplines, from psychoanalysis to the psychology of management and business, have their own theoretical underpinnings. It seems to me that Gerhard Medicus' analytical concept lays the groundwork for a building in which all members of the family of psychology could feel at home. " Quoted on the book cover of the English edition , 2nd edition 2017 (PDF).
  8. ↑ See also a review by Jay Feierman (2015) in Human Ethology Bulletin 30; Pp. 13–15 (PDF, English).
  9. ↑ See also a review by Luis Alonso (2015) in Mente y Cerebro 74, pp. 92–94 (PDF, Spanish).
  10. ↑ Gerhard Vollmer: In the light of evolution . Hirzel, Stuttgart 2017, p. 497.
  11. ↑ Hoimar von Ditfurth already commented on Gerhard Medicus' first work in his book So let's then plant an apple tree in footnote 149 with "Gerhard Medicus gives a very good overview ... There is also a wealth of further literature".
  12. ↑ https://www.uibk.ac.at/psychologie/humanethologie/einfuehrung-in-die-humanethologie/daten/humandevelopment.pdf
  13. ↑ https://www.uibk.ac.at/psychologie/humanethologie/einfuehrung-in-die-humanethologie/daten/mappingisbn1-59454-212-0.pdf
  14. ↑ http://www.vwb-verlag.com/Katalog/m616.html Information from the publisher on the 5th edition 2020, with table of contents. Part I: Theory of interdisciplinarity, Part II: Contributions to theory formation in psychology and psychotherapy.
  15. ↑ Information from the publisher on the 2nd edition 2017 , with table of contents.
personal data
SURNAME Medicus, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian human ethologist and evolutionary-biological thinking psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg