Hans-Christian Kossak

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Hans-Christian Kossak (* 1944 ) is a German psychologist , psychotherapist and non-fiction author . He contributed to the increased combination of hypnotherapeutic and behavioral therapy methods.

Live and act

Hans-Christian Kossak studied psychology at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. Later he had teaching positions at the Ruhr University in Bochum and received his doctorate with a thesis on the combination of modern cognitive-behavioral therapy with modern hypnosis at the University of Bremen . He also completed training in behavioral therapy , conversation psychotherapy and hypnosis. Kossak received approvals as a psychological psychotherapist and as a child and adolescent psychotherapist .

From 1969 until his retirement in 2009, he was in charge of the Catholic counseling center for parenting and family issues in Bochum and the children's outpatient clinic he founded there. Kossak was and is active, among other things, as a psychotherapist, conversation therapist, hypnotherapist, child and adolescent psychotherapist and behavioral therapist as well as a trainer, in particular for the combination of behavioral therapy and hypnosis. He has been practicing hypnosis himself since the mid-1970s, especially in combination with cognitive-behavioral therapy, and is a lecturer at training institutes for psychotherapy .

Kossak is the author of a textbook on hypnosis and has also published numerous specialist and non-fiction books as well as specialist articles in specialist journals. He is an avowed comic book reader.

Publications

  • Cope better with studies and exams. New ways of dealing with learning and performance problems in school and university. 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Quintessenz, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-86128-317-4 .
  • Hypnosis and the Art of Comics or How To Get Green Circles In Your Eyes. A picture and reading book on the effect and reality of hypnosis. Carl-Auer-Verlag, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-89670-128-2 .
  • Learning made easy. Well prepared and without fear of exams to success (for school, study and work). 2nd Edition. Carl-Auer-Verlag, Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-89670-523-5 ( review ).
  • together with Gisela Zehner: Hypnosis at the children's dentist. Behavioral Leadership and Communication. With 14 tables. Springer, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-17737-8 (with online video).
  • Hypnosis. Textbook for psychotherapists and doctors (=  PVU Psychologie Verlags Union program ). 5th, completely revised edition. Beltz Verlag, Weinheim u. a. 2013, ISBN 978-3-621-27975-8 (additional online materials for the book at www.beltz.de).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See information on Hans-Christian Kossak, in: Winfried Häuser. Review of November 4, 2006 to: Hans Christian Kossak: Learning made easy (exam preparation). Carl-Auer-Verlag, Heidelberg 2006. In: socialnet reviews, ISSN  2190-9245 ( online ; accessed on September 30, 2012).
  2. ↑ See e.g. B .: Hypnosis - Bibliography . On: website of the Center for Applied Hypnosis, Northern Germany ; Retrieved September 30, 2012.
  3. ↑ a b c Author information on Hans-Christian Kossak, in his specialist article: Methods and dangers of show hypnosis. Posted in: Skeptics. Journal for Science and Critical Thinking , Ed .: Society for the Scientific Investigation of Para sciences (GWUP), Issue 4/2001, ISSN  0936-9244 , p. 171 ff. ( Online on the GWUP website; accessed on September 30, 2012).
  4. ↑ a b Information on Hans-Christian Kossak as a speaker at the 19th International Hypnosis Congress 2012 in Bremen; List as download on the congress website: Speakers →  Hans-Christian Kossak  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Pp. 54–55 ( PDF file, 1.16 MB; accessed September 30, 2012).@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / cx-services.com  
  5. ^ A b Author information on Hans-Christian Kossak, at Carl-Auer-Verlag ; on the publisher's website for Kossak's non-fiction book Learning Made Easy , 2nd edition from 2008 ( Hans-Christian Kossak ; accessed on September 30, 2012).
personal data
SURNAME Kossak, Hans-Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist and psychological psychotherapist
DATE OF BIRTH 1944