Gerhardt Nissen

Gerhardt Nissen (born September 21, 1923 in Tondern ; † July 19, 2014 ) was a German psychiatrist and director of the clinic for child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . He was one of the first representatives of his subject in Germany and, together with Hubert Harbauer, Reinhart Lempp and Peter Strunk, was the author of the German textbook in his field, which has been leading for decades (1st edition 1971, 7th edition 1994).

Live and act

Born in Denmark in 1923, Nissen was naturalized in Germany in 1930. He studied medicine in Vienna and Kiel from 1944 to 1950 . In Kiel he also completed a second degree in philosophy and psychology . After doctorate and license to practice medicine, he worked from 1950 to 1953 as a scientific assistant at the Pathological Institute of Kiel University and at pediatric and internal clinics. From 1953 to 1963 he worked in the Bremische Landesnervenklinik as a ward doctor in the “child observation ward ” and neurological and psychiatric wards. In 1958 Nissen was promoted to senior physician . In 1961 he took over the management of the department for child and adolescent psychiatry.

From 1963 to 1978 Nissen was director of the clinic for child and adolescent psychiatry in West Berlin . At the same time he was medical director of the Humboldt Hospital in Berlin-West with 15 specialist clinics from 1974 to 1978 . In 1971 he received his habilitation and in 1973 he was appointed adjunct professor at the Free University . He also worked as a lecturer at the University of Education in Berlin . In 1976, he did not accept an offer to a chair at the University of Essen . In 1978 he accepted a chair at the University of Würzburg, the first of this discipline in the Free State of Bavaria . He held his inaugural lecture in Würzburg on July 18, 1979 on the subject of biological and social aspects of child development and upbringing . In 1990 Nissen was appointed "State Doctor for Mentally and Emotionally Disabled Children and Adolescents". In 1991 Nissen retired.

Nissen's scientific focus was on depression in childhood and adolescence, to which he dedicated the world's first monograph in 1971. He was a member of numerous scientific societies at home and abroad.

Memberships

• “General Medical Society for Psychotherapy”, 1995 on the board
• “Professional Association of German Child and Youth Psychiatrists”, honorary member
• Federal Medical Association , from 1983 to 1991 member of the Federal Committee "Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Mental Hygiene", 1970 "Senate for Medical Training"
• “Consilium Paedopsychiatricum Europaeicum”, elected member
• "German EEG Society"
• " Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft " (DFG), 1979 replacement reviewer, from 1992 to 1996 expert reviewer for psychiatry, psychosomatics and child and adolescent psychiatry
• “German Society for the History of Neurology”, co-founder in 1990, chairman from 1995 to 2004
• "German Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry", 1969 to 1970 secretary, 1971 to 1979 president
• "German Society for Pediatrics", 1969 to 1979 advisory board
• "German Society for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Neurology" DGPPN
• "Europaeum Paedopsychiatricum (CEP)", elected member since 1976
• "European Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry", 1984 to 1992 Vice President
• "General Association of German Neurologists", to which 18 scientific societies and professional associations belonged, President 1987 to 1991
• “ Hermann Emminghaus Prize” for research in child and adolescent psychiatry, 1981 founder
• "Institute for Psychotherapy" in Berlin (West), from 1968 to 1974 on the board
• “Instituto de Psiquiatrías de Lengua Española”, board member since 2004
• “Safety Committee for the Child”, Munich, 1981 board member
• Board of Trustees “Research Prize for Psychotherapy in Medicine”, founder in 1996 and chairman since then
• State Medical Association Berlin (West), delegate from 1967 to 1969
• "National Committee for Therapy and Prognosis of Depression" (PTD Germany), member since 1984
• "Austrian Working Group for Neurology and Psychiatry of Children and Adolescents", honorary member
• "Psychotherapeutisches Kolleg Würzburg", founder 1989, chairman until 2004, since 2004 honorary chairman
• “Swiss Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy”, honorary member
• “Sociedad Espanola de Psicopatologia de la Expression”, honorary member
• “ Wilhelm Sander Foundation ”, Munich, from 1986 to 1995 research expert

Fonts (selection)

A total of several hundred publications are available, for the German-language articles see German National Library (see web links)

• with Hubert Harbauer (later Christian Eggers ), Reinhart Lempp and Peter Strunk: textbook on special child and adolescent psychiatry. Springer, Berlin et al. 1971, ISBN 3-540-05337-9 (several editions).
• Depressive Syndromes in Childhood and Adolescence. Contribution to symptomatology, genesis and prognosis (= monographs from the entire field of psychiatry. Vol. 4). Springer, Berlin et al. 1971, ISBN 3-540-05493-6 .
• Biological and social aspects of child development and upbringing. [Inaugural lecture on June 18, 1979 at the Julius Maximilians University in Würzburg] In: Lothar Bossle (Ed.): Reden zur Zeit. Edited on behalf of the Institute for Democracy Research. Würzburg 1980 (= speeches at the moment. Volume 53).
• as ed. with Otto Schrappe: Universitäts-Nervenklinik. Contributions on the occasion of the commissioning of the new building. Wurzburg 1982.
• Psychopharmacotherapy in the child. In: Gerhard Langer , Hans Heimann (Ed.): Psychopharmaka. Basics and therapy. Springer, Vienna et al. 1983, ISBN 3-211-81746-8 , pp. 575-590, doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-7091-7645-0_19 .
• with Christian Eggers and Joest Martinius: Child and adolescent psychiatric pharmacotherapy. In clinic and practice. Springer, Berlin et al. 1984, ISBN 3-540-12520-5 .
• as editor: Psychiatry of the school age. Neuroanatomical, psychopathological, anthropological, curative educational, cerebral organic, psychodynamic and psychopharmacological aspects. [in memoriam of Prof. Dr. Otto Schrappe (1924–1983)]. Bern 1984.
• as ed., with the collaboration of Francisco Alonso-Fernandez (ed.): Psychiatrie des Pubertätsalters. Endocrinological, anthropological, adolescent psychiatric, psychosexual, psychodynamic, learning psychological, psychopathological and psychopharmacological aspects. Bern 1985.
• as ed. with Gundolf Keil : Psychiatry on the way to science. Psychiatry-historical symposium on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the opening of the "Psychiatric Clinic of the Royal University of Würzburg". Thieme, Stuttgart / New York 1985.
• as editor: Psychiatry of adolescence. Endomorphic, anthropological, neurochemical, organic brain, psychodynamic, family therapeutic, psychopathological and psychopharmacological aspects. Bern 1986.
• as ed., with the collaboration of Francisco Alonso-Fernandez: Somatogenic Psychosyndromes and their Therapy in Childhood and Adolescence. Medical historical, neurological, neurophysiological, neuropsychological, psychological, neurosurgical, endocrinological, psychiatric, prognostic and therapeutic aspects. Bern 1990.
• Childhood Psychopathology. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1977, ISBN 3-534-04883-0 (From the 2nd edition as: Psychological disorders in childhood and adolescence. Later with Götz-Erik Trott: 3rd, completely revised and considerably expanded edition. Springer, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-540-58966-X ; In Spanish: Trastornos psíquicos en la infancia y juventud. Compendio de psiquiatría infantil y juvenil. Prólogo Francisco Alonso-Fernández. (Versión castellana de Claudio Gancho). Herder, Barcelona 1991, ISBN 84-254-1741-4 ).
• with Jürgen Fritze and Götz-Erik Trott: Psychotropic drugs in childhood and adolescence. Fischer, Ulm 1998, ISBN 3-437-51380-X (several editions).
• Cultural history of mental disorders in children and adolescents. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-608-94104-5 .
• Mentally disturbed children and young people yesterday and today. Personal memories from 60 years. Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2009, ISBN 978-3-89806-857-4 .

Awards

• 1985 Ernst von Bergmann plaque from the German Medical Association
• 1987 Tokai University , Japan Knowledge and Research Plaque
• 1988 Honorary Professor at the Complutense University of Madrid
• 1988 Federal Cross of Merit, 2nd class
• 1989 Albert Szent-Györgyi plaque from the University of Szeged , Hungary
• 1993 Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
• 1993 Corresponding member of the “Royal National Academy of Medicine”, Madrid
• 1993 Dr. Heinrich Hoffmann medal of the "German Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry"
• 1994 Fellow “Academia, Medicinae & Psychiatriae Foundation”, USA
• 2001 Medalla Académica “Real Academía Nacional de Medicina”, Madrid
• 2003 Bavarian Order of Merit

Web links

• Literature by and about Gerhardt Nissen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Professional association for child and adolescent psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy in Germany V.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary notice ( memento from August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) of the Medical Faculty of the University of Würzburg, Main-Post , July 26, 2014.