Hans Hopf (psychoanalyst)

Hans Hopf (2006)

Hans Hopf (born September 9, 1942) is a German analytical child and adolescent psychotherapist , living in Mundelsheim , greater Stuttgart area .

Life

Hans Hopf was born in Teplitz-Schönau (the father was at war and later, until 1947, in Yugoslav captivity). After the end of the war, the mother and her three children fled to the west via several intermediate stops and finally found admission in 1947 in the Ebelsbach refugee camp in the Haßfurt district , where Hopf attended the camp elementary school. From 1954 to 1962 - the family had moved - followed the high school in Bamberg and Schorndorf ( Abitur ) and from 1962 to 1964 a teaching degree at the University of Education in Stuttgart in the subjects of mathematics and physics .

From 1965 Hopf taught as a teacher at the elementary school in Aufhausen , Aalen district , and from 1968 - together with his wife Gisela Hopf - at the Georg Hager School in Mundelsheim , where he was a member of the teaching staff until 1992.

At the same time as his teaching activity, Hopf completed training as an analytical child and adolescent psychotherapist at the Stuttgart Academy for Depth Psychology and Psychotherapy from 1971 to 1975 and opened a private practice as an analytical child and adolescent psychotherapist in 1975. In addition, from 1984 a five-year postgraduate course at Ulm University in the subjects of medical psychology , physiology and psychiatry followed . With a dissertation on the subject of content analysis of oknophilia and philobatism in the dreams of children and adolescents , Hopf received his doctorate in 1992 at the Faculty of Theoretical Medicine of Ulm University. rer. biol. hum. and has since worked as an analytical child and adolescent psychotherapist.

From 1979 Hans Hopf taught as a lecturer in the training of counseling teachers and drug information teachers and was a board member of the newly founded psychoanalytic teaching and research institute "Stuttgarter Gruppe" (today "Psychoanalytic Institute Stuttgart"). In 1982 he became a lecturer and control analyst at the “Psychoanalytical Institute Stuttgart” and in 1995 a member of the training committee with lectures on dissociality , neurosis theory , dreams, etc. and seminars on technology and case studies , 1996–2003 he was therapeutic director of the “ Osterhof ” therapy center , Baiersbronn ( Klosterreichenbach ). From May 1999, Hans Hopf was a reviewer for analytical and depth psychology-based psychotherapy for children and adolescents, and since August 2003 he has been back in his own practice as a psychotherapist , supervisor and reviewer ; at the same time with extensive lecturing and lecturing activities at psychoanalytic institutes, universities and at congresses. Since 1976 Hans Hopf has been writing articles for radio and - occasionally - television on educational and psychological topics, and since 2010 he has also been teaching psychoanalytic education as a lecturer at the Leopold-Franzens University in Innsbruck .

Publications

Hans Hopf wrote numerous books and scientific publications with a focus on aggression , fear , dreams and special neuroses in children and adolescents.

Books (selection)

• Aggression in analytical therapy with children and adolescents. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1998.
• with Evelyn Heinemann: Mental disorders in childhood and adolescence. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001; 5th edition 2015.
• ed. with Eberhard Windaus: textbook of psychotherapy. Volume V: Psychoanalytic and depth psychologically founded child and adolescent psychotherapy. CIP-Medien, Munich 2005.
• with Evelyn Heinemann: ADHD. Symptoms - psychodynamics - case studies - psychoanalytic therapy. Verlag W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Berlin / Cologne 2006.
• Dreams of children and young people. Diagnostics and psychotherapy. Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 2007.
• Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents. Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt am Main 2009.
• The boy's psychoanalysis. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2014.
• School fear and school phobia. Paths to understanding and coping. Help for parents and teachers. Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt am Main 2014.
• When children get sick. A little psychosomatic of cough, runny nose, hoarseness. Mabuse, Frankfurt 2015.
• Refugee children yesterday and today. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2017.
• Abysses - Spectacular cases from the life of a psychotherapist. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2020

Articles in books (selection)

• Afraid of the black man. The psychoanalytic treatment of a school phobia. In: M. Schulte-Markwort, B. Diepold, F. Resch (eds.): Mental disorders in childhood and adolescence. A psychodynamic case book. Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart 1998.
• The restless boys. Externalizing Disorders, Philobatism, and Masculinity. In: F. Dammasch: Boys in Crisis. The weaker sex. Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt am Main 2007.
• Philobatic tendencies in boys. Possible causes and the consequences. In: F. Dammasch, H.-G. Metzger, M. Teising: Male identity. Brandes & Apsel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009.

Articles in journals (selection)

• Gender differences in dreams. Content analysis of oknophile and philobatic dream images in the dreams of children and adolescents. In: Prax. Child psychol. Child psychiatry. 41, 1992, pp. 176-184.
• With Volker Tschuschke: Affects in the dreams of children and young people. In: Zsch. psychosome. Med. 2, 1993, pp. 160-173.
• Oknophilia and Philobatism - Two Psychological Types and Other Related Psychological Personality Theories. In: Contributions to analytical child and adolescent psychotherapy. 77, 1993, pp. 28-43.
• "... a wild beast to whom the protection of its own species is alien". The historical development of the concept of aggression in psychoanalysis and the different faces of aggression in the child's developmental phases. In: Analytical child and adolescent psychotherapy. XXVII vol. 89, 1996, pp. 51-71.
• With Rudolf Weiß: Horror and violent video consumption among young people. An examination of voice samples from video consumers with the Gottschalk-Gleser voice content analysis. In: Prax. Child psychol. Child psychiatry. 5, 1996, pp. 179-185.
• On the psychoanalysis of the hyperkinetic syndrome, in: Analytical Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, Issue 107, XXXI. Vol., 3/2000.
• With Gabriele Häußler: Early factors in the etiology of restlessness, hyperkinesis and inattentiveness. In: Analytical child and adolescent psychotherapy. XXXII. Vol. 112, 4/2001, pp. 487-508.
• "I have an ADD child, do you understand anything about it ...?" On the psychoanalytic understanding of hyperkinetic disorder and attention deficit disorder. In: Analytical child and adolescent psychotherapy. XXXIV. Vol. 117, 1/2003, pp. 7-23.
• The disappearance of real fear and shame. In: Analytical child and adolescent psychotherapy. 2006, pp. 143-162.
• Between empathy and setting limits - reflections on psychodynamics and treatment techniques in psychoanalytic therapies for hyperkinetic disorders. In: Prax. Child psychol. Child psychiatry. 56, 2007, pp. 333-355.
• I didn't feel alone in the difficult situation…. Supervision of the psychoanalytic treatment of a 9-year-old boy with a specialist diagnosis of ADHD. In: child analysis. 17/4/2009, pp. 335-365.
• Spaces - Movement - Externalizing. The joy of the young in the outer worlds. In: Analytical child and adolescent psychotherapy. XLII. Vol. 151, 3/2011, pp. 331-348.
• Psychoanalysis and attention. Inattentive perception of a significant phenomenon. In: Analytical child and adolescent psychotherapy. XLIII. Vol. 153, 1/2012, pp. 37-56.

Honors

• 2010 Honorary member of the Institute for Psychoanalysis and Analytical Psychotherapy Würzburg e. V.
• 2012 honorary member of the Psychoanalytic Institute Stuttgart
• 2013 Diotima Honor Prize of the German Psychotherapist Association of the Federal Chamber of Psychotherapists
• 2013 honorary member of the Association of Analytical Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists, Germany
• 2018 Staufer Medal

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Hopf in the catalog of the German National Library
• Laudation Prof. Richter on the awarding of the Diotoma Prize to Hans Hopf