Hans Peter Dreitzel

Hans Peter Dreitzel (born January 3, 1935 in Berlin ) is a German sociologist and gestalt therapist .

Dreitzel began his scientific career in 1961 with his doctorate under Helmuth Plessner at the University of Göttingen , where he then worked as a research assistant at the chair of Hans Paul Bahrdt . After his habilitation in 1967 at Göttingen University with a fundamental thesis on the concept of sociological roles, he was appointed assistant professor at the New School for Social Research in New York, where he taught European sociology and sociological theory. In 1970 he was appointed to a chair for political science and sociology at the Free University of Berlin , where he worked at the Institute for Sociology until his retirement in 2000.

In his academic biography he developed from political sociology (dissertation “Concept of elite and social structure”) through the investigation of the intersection between society and the individual (post-doctoral thesis “The social suffering and suffering in society - preliminary studies on a pathology of role behavior”) and on socio-psychological-cultural-sociological (“reflexive sensuality”) and psychotherapeutic (“shape and process - a psychotherapeutic diagnosis”) topics. The sociology of the body and emotions was increasingly in the foreground of his research.

Dreitzel trained as a Gestalt psychotherapist in Berlin and New York in the 1970s. He subsequently made a name for himself as a therapist, supervisor and trainer of gestalt therapists.

Visiting professorships: University of California, Berkeley , 1968, and Cornell University , Ithaca, New York, 197 ...

Awards: Award for the best dissertation of 1961 at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Göttingen

After his retirement, Dreitzel lived in Greece for 10 years, then in Graz and today in the Bavarian Oberland

Fonts (selection)

• Concept of elite and social structure. A sociological concept analysis , Enke, Stuttgart 1962
• The social suffering and the suffering in society. Preliminary studies on a pathology of role behavior , Enke, Stuttgart 1968
• The loneliness as a sociological problem , the ark, Zurich 1970
• Unwanted self-destruction - reflections on dealing with catastrophic developments , (with Horst Stenger) 1990
• For a human right to free use of drugs. 28 theses against the ideologization of our discourse on drug use , 1997
• Reflexive Sensuality I. - Emotional Awareness - Human Environment Gestalt Therapy 1992, Psychological and Social Perspectives of Gestalt Therapy , DTB, Munich 1998
• Reflexive sensuality II. - Shape and process - A psychotherapeutic diagnosis or: The healthy person has little character , EHP, Bergisch Gladbach 2004
• Reflexive sensuality III. - Art of living and lust for life - development and maturation from a gestalt therapeutic and integral point of view , EHP Bergisch Gladbach 2014

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Peter Dreitzel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Personal website of Hans Peter Dreitzel (Gestalt therapy)
• Hans Peter Dreitzel: "Drugs for Everyone"