Peter Mattes

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Hans Peter Mattes (born June 24, 1939 in Mannheim ) is a German psychologist and was a university professor , most recently at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Vienna .

Career

After graduating from high school in 1958 at Fürstenberg-Gymnasium Donaueschingen , he began studying music at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , first musicology and German studies, then psychology and philosophy, graduating as a qualified psychologist (Dipl.Psych.) In 1964. Was a research assistant or research assistant he at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg (Psychological Institute II), from 1970 at the Free University of Berlin , Psychological Institute (›PI‹) in Faculty 11, Philosophy and Social Sciences. In 1976 the doctorate to Dr. phil. in the subjects of psychology and philosophy. At the PI (later in the Psychology Course at the Free University of Berlin) he was a professor specializing in the theory and history of psychology until 2004, and from 1989 to 1999 he gave regular guest seminars at the Institute for Psychology at the University of Vienna. His last guest lecture took place in the academic year 2013/2014.

Act

Active in university politics in the late 1960s as assistant spokesman (member of the Bavarian and Federal Assistant Conferences ), in the 1970s alongside central committees of the Free University of Berlin, at times founding committees of the University of Bremen . 1991 one of the founders of the New Society for Psychology , together with Eva Jaeggi and Thomas Leithäuser, founding board member until 1995, resigned in 2019. Since its founding also member of the Austrian Society of Critical Psychologists (GkPP).

Scientifically, he works on the history and presence of discourse in psychology and its transdisciplinary references. He is considered to be one of the representatives of critical psychology in German-speaking countries - albeit at a distance from Klaus Holzkamp's critical psychology, whose generalization claims he does not want to share. His permanent seminar series Psychology and Postmodernism at the Free University of Berlin received a lot of attention . (Co-) editor of the journals Psychologie und Gesellschaftskritik as well as Journal für Psychologie , numerous individual publications.

Fonts (selection)

As editor

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federal Assistant Conference (Ed.): Communications from the Federal Assistant Conference . No. 2 - 4 . Bonn 1969, p. 2, p. 7; 4, p. 59 .
  2. ↑ Board of Directors | New Society for Psychology. Retrieved August 12, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Seminar series Psychological Theory and Postmodernism. In: Free University of Berlin. Retrieved August 1, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Mattes, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mattes, Hans Peter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim