Giselher Guttmann

Giselher Guttmann (born October 2, 1934 in Vienna ) is an Austrian psychologist , psychotherapist and university professor .

academic career

He received his doctorate in 1963 with an empirical thesis on the pointing experiment by Erich Mittenecker . After moving to Erlangen to join Walter Toman , who had just returned from the USA, Hubert Rohracher brought him back to Vienna in 1965. He qualified as a professor in 1968 and was awarded a post in the same year. Full professor and in 1972 full professor for psychology at the University of Vienna and also took over the chair of Hubert Rohracher, who died surprisingly. In 1973 he took over the function of the institute's director alternately or partly together with Gerhard H. Fischer . In 1975 Guttmann was the last dean of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Vienna, which was then divided into three faculties. Guttmann retired at the end of the 2001/02 academic year.

Since 1983 Giselher Guttmann has been a real member of the mathematical and natural science class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . In 2000 he became the founding rector of the University of Human Sciences in the Principality of Liechtenstein (today: Private University in the Principality of Liechtenstein (UFL)), and in 2005 he became the founding dean of the Sigmund Freud Private University . There he also took over responsibility for the master’s degree course and is currently head of the department for the neuroscientific foundations of psychotherapy. Giselher Guttmann also worked as the scientific director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Consciousness Psychology and Transcultural Psychotherapy and as President of the Austrian Society for Scientific Hypnosis .

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After returning from Erlangen, Guttmann carried out experimental neuropsychological (EEG) examinations in Vienna, in particular on neuronal activation. His research interests are in the areas of general psychology, bio- and neuropsychology, and differential psychology.

selected Writings

Introduction to neuropsychology. Huber, Bern 1972/1974.
Neuropsychology textbook. Huber, Bern 1981.
Learn. The wonderful ability to change mental and physical functions. Hölder, Pichler & Tempsky, Vienna 1990.
I see, think, dream, die. The being here and now, the being and not being of humans in the mirror of research. Ehrenwirth, Munich 1991 (with Friedrich Bestereiner ).
with I. Scholz-Strasser (Ed.) Freud and the Neurosciences. From Brain Research to the Unconscious. ÖAW publishing house, Vienna 1998.
Neuropsychology in Austria. The university perspective. Springer, Vienna 2007.