Helmut Enke

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Helmut Enke (born December 4, 1927 in Marburg ; † May 1, 2011 in Stuttgart ) was a German internist , psychoanalyst and university professor. His focus was on research and teaching in the field of group psychotherapy .

Live and act

Enke was the eldest son of Willi Enke and Anna Karoline Elisabeth Enke (nee Keil). Both parents were specialists in neurology and psychiatry , the father was a professor at the University of Marburg . The mother was of half-French descent. Enke had two younger brothers and grew up in Marburg. From 1945 to 1951 he studied psychology and medicine in Marburg, Tübingen and Freiburg im Breisgau . In 1952 he received his doctorate at the Medical Faculty in Marburg on "the personality of the athlete with special consideration of the question of talent". He worked as an assistant doctor in Treysa in 1951 and in Tübingen from 1952 to 1956 under Ernst Kretschmer . In 1957 he took over the deputy management and in 1961 the management of the psychosomatic department of the medical university clinic Freiburg im Breisgau. He completed his habilitation in Freiburg in 1963, received the venia legendi for "internal medicine, in particular psychotherapy", and in 1967 followed the founding rector Ludwig Heilmeyer to the newly founded University of Ulm . There he was appointed adjunct professor and head of the department for medical sociology and social psychology . In 1967 he became head of the then newly founded research center for psychotherapy in Stuttgart , which he headed until his retirement in 1988. He was particularly interested in psychodynamic processes in therapeutic groups, which he - funded by the Volkswagen Foundation and the DFG - examined using psychophysiological methods.

In 1967 he founded the German Working Group for Group Psychotherapy and Group Dynamics (DAGG) together with Annelise Heigl-Evers , Dorothea Fuchs-Kamp, Alf Däumling and Georg Schwöbel . From 1969 Enke was a member of the General Medical Society for Psychotherapy (AÄGP) and later its chairman. In 1972/1973 he became a member of the psychotherapy / psychosomatics working group of the German Bundestag's Enquête Commission on the state of psychiatry. He was instrumental in founding the psychoanalytic teaching and research institute "Stuttgarter Gruppe" (today: "Psychoanalytisches Institut Stuttgart eV"), which was established in 1979, where he also worked as a lecturer and training analyst . From 1979 to 2000 he was a member of the scientific advisory board of the Lindau Psychotherapy Weeks , from 2001 to 2002 an honorary board of the Lindau Psychotherapy Weeks.

Enke was married to the psychotherapist Editha Ferchland until 1977.

Fonts

  • Constitutional psychological contribution to the personality of the athlete with special consideration of the question of talent. Marburg 1951 (dissertation, University of Marburg, 1952).
  • The course in clinical psychotherapy: Problems and possibilities of an objectifying psychodiagnostics of the course of treatment in inpatient psychotherapeutic patients with organ dysfunction and psychosomatic illnesses. Springer, Berlin 1965 (habilitation thesis, University of Freiburg im Breisgau, 1963).
  • With Editha Enke-Ferchland, Brigitte Malzahn: Textbook of Medical Psychology. Textbook for students and teachers. Urban & Fischer, Munich 1973; 4th edition 1977, ISBN 3-541-06094-8 .
  • The scientifically worthy handling of new or renamed psychotherapy procedures: Introductory lecture as part of the 31st Lindau Psychotherapy Weeks 1981 ( PDF ).
  • Edited with Volker Tschuschke , Walter Volk: Psychotherapeutic action. Basics, methods and results of research. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-17-007942-5 .

literature

  • Wolfram Ehlers u. a. (Ed.): Bio-psycho-social foundations for medicine: Festschrift for Helmut Enke. Springer, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-540-18999-8 .
  • Volker Tschuschke, Wolfgang Tress: Helmut Enke - An obituary. In: Journal for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy . Vol. 57 (2011), H. 3, pp. 299-301 ( PDF ).
  • Christoph Seidler: On the death of Helmut Enke. In: Group Psychotherapy and Group Dynamics . Vol. 47 (2011), p. 224 f. ( PDF ).
  • Heribert Knott: Obituary for Helmut Enke. In: Group Psychotherapy and Group Dynamics. Vol. 47 (2011), pp. 226-228 ( PDF ).
  • Christoph Seidler, Klaus Antons: On the death of Helmut Enke. In: Matrix. 1/2011, pp. 24-28 ( PDF ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Research Center for Psychotherapy: About Us ( Memento of the original of September 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.klinikum.uni-heidelberg.de
  2. ^ Psychoanalytic Institute Stuttgart: History (accessed on July 14, 2012)
personal data
SURNAME Enke, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German internist, psychoanalyst and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Marburg
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 2011
Place of death Stuttgart