Helmut Remschmidt

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Helmut Remschmidt (2012)

Helmut Remschmidt (* 25. April 1938 in Czernowitz , formerly Romania , now Ukraine ) is a German child and adolescent psychiatrist , psychologist and former director of the Clinic for child and adolescent psychiatry of the University of Marburg . He is one of the world's best-known representatives of his field and is considered the nestor of youth psychiatry in Germany.

Life

Helmut Remschmidt was born in April 1938 to parents of German origin in the capital of Bucovina , Chernivtsi . The maternal family comes from the area around Kieselbronn (today Baden-Württemberg ), the paternal family from Graz , where various dentists of the family association are still based today and in the fourth generation. As part of the Hitler-Stalin pact , families of German origin in Bukovina were given the opportunity to relocate to the German Reich, which the Remschmidt family seized in 1940, initially to Myschkow in the newly founded district of Warthenau in Upper Silesia . After the approach of the Soviet Army in 1945, the family fled to Upper Franconia , where they found shelter with a farming family in Mailach . Helmut Rermschmidt completed elementary school in nearby Markt Lonnerstadt and then in Neustadt an der Aisch and finally high school in Forchheim , where he graduated from high school in 1958.

Remschmidt studied medicine , psychology and philosophy at the Universities of Erlangen , Vienna and Tübingen . After passing the medical state examination at the University of Erlangen , he did his doctorate in 1964 under Alfred Sigel (1921-2017) with the dissertation The variants of the renal cavity system: A typification based on embyrological-morphological principles. to the Dr. med. and one year later passed the diploma examination in psychology at the University of Tübingen; from 1964 to 1966 he received a scholarship from the Volkswagen Foundation . In 1968 the doctorate to Dr. phil. at the University of Tübingen with Erich Mittenecker on the subject of the adaptive behavior of epileptics. An experimental study on the so-called personality change of epileptics in grand mal epileptics and patients with psychomotor epilepsy . At that time (1966–1968) he was a medical assistant in the Stetten sanatorium in Stetten im Remstal , where he was responsible for over 200 mentally handicapped and seizure children, which encouraged his decision to become a child and youth psychiatrist. This was followed by work as a scientific assistant and senior physician with Hermann Stutte at the Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Philipps University of Marburg .

In 1971 the habilitation followed , in 1975 the appointment to the newly created full professorship for psychiatry and neurology of children and adolescents at the Free University of Berlin , rejecting an equivalent offer at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , Faculty Mannheim. In 1978, Remschmidt was offered the chair of child and adolescent psychiatry at the Philipps University of Marburg, which he accepted on September 1, 1980 and where he worked as director until his retirement in 2006. During this time, in 1985, he turned down an offer to the chair of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Zurich .

Since his retirement, Remschmidt has continued to work scientifically, including a. as project manager, author, lecturer and court expert.

Services

Remschmidt's main areas of work include developmental psychopathology , schizophrenia , eating disorders , psychiatric genetics (part of behavioral genetics ), autism, and therapy and evaluation research. In addition to several hundred scientific publications, Helmut Remschmidt is the author of various textbooks on child and adolescent psychiatry, some of which have also been translated into other languages ​​(English, Russian, Spanish, Greek, Serbo-Croatian) and have a total circulation of well over half a million. He is and was also the founder and editor of various scientific publications. In 1992, together with Herman van Engeland (1943–2016) and Philip Graham (* 1932), he founded the monthly international journal European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and was deputy head of the medical and scientific editorial team of Deutsches Ärzteblatt from 1994 to 2017 .

Parallel to his scientific work, which is strongly characterized by a focus on biological child and adolescent psychiatric research, he built up a regional care system for mentally ill children and adolescents, which has become a model for many countries. The “Psychiatry” model program of the federal government (1980–1985), for which the region around Marburg was selected as the only child and youth psychiatric model region for all of Germany, contributed to this.

Helmut Remschmidt founded the international research seminars for young scientists, which have been named after him since 2006, as well as the conferences on biological child and adolescent psychiatry. As President of the German (1982–1983), European (1995–1999) and international (1998–2004) Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ( International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions , IACAPAP) and the Section of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) (1989–1999), he had a lasting influence on the development of child and adolescent psychiatry in Germany and internationally. From 1979 to 1981 he was chairman of the German section of the International League Against Epilepsy (since 2004: German Society for Epileptology ).

Awards

Remschmidt has received numerous awards for his activities:

Fonts

In German (selection)

  • The variants of the renal cavity system: Typing on an embyrological-morphological basis. Dissertation (Dr. med.), Erlangen-Nuremberg 1964; DNB 482336676
  • The adaptive behavior of epileptics. An experimental study on the so-called personality change of epileptics in grand mal epileptics and patients with psychomotor epilepsy . Dissertation (Dr. phil.), Tübingen 1968; DNB 481638814
  • (with Wolfgang Arns and Kurt-Alphons Jochheim :) Neurology and psychiatry for nurses and nurses . Thieme, Stuttgart 1970; DNB 455561095
  • Psychology for the nursing staff . Thieme, Stuttgart 1972; ISBN 978-3-13-485301-8
  • (with Hermann Stutte :) The lowering of the age of majority in the judgment of those affected: results of a survey of 17 and 18 year old young people. Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Erziehungshilfe (AFET), Hanover 1973; DNB 740256157
  • (as editor and editor :) Multiaxial classification scheme for psychiatric illnesses in children and adolescents according to Rutter, Shaffer and Sturge . Huber, Bern 1977; ISBN 978-3-456-80503-0
  • (as editor :) Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Practical introduction to nursing, educational, and social professions . Thieme, Stuttgart 1979; ISBN 3-13-570601-2
  • (with Hermann Stutte :) Neuropsychiatric consequences after traumatic brain injuries in children and adolescents: results of clinical, neuropsychological and catamnestic examinations . Huber, Bern 1980; ISBN 978-3-456-80778-2
  • (as editor :) Family Psychopathology and Child Psychiatric Disorders . Huber, Bern 1980; ISBN 978-3-4568-0984-7
  • (as editor, with Martin H. Schmidt :) Childhood neuropsychology . Enke, Stuttgart 1981; ISBN 978-3-432-91081-9
  • (as editor :) Multiaxial diagnostics in child and adolescent psychiatry: results of empirical studies . Huber, Bern 1983; ISBN 978-3-456-81297-7
  • (as editor :) Child psychiatry and family law . Enke, Stuttgart 1984; ISBN 978-3-432-94271-1
  • (as editor, with Martin H. Schmidt :) RJ Corboz: Child and adolescent psychiatry in clinic and practice: In three volumes, Vol. II: Developmental disorders, organically caused disorders, psychoses, assessment . Thieme, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 978-3-13-658201-5
  • (as editor, with Martin H. Schmidt :) Hans Christ: Child and adolescent psychiatry in clinic and practice: In three volumes, Vol. III: Age-typical, reactive and neurotic disorders . Thieme, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 978-3-13-658301-2
  • (as editor, with Martin H. Schmidt :) Therapy evaluation in child and adolescent psychiatry . Enke, Stuttgart 1986; ISBN 978-3-432-95121-8
  • (as editor, with Martin H. Schmidt :) N. Irving: Child and adolescent psychiatry in clinic and practice: In three volumes, Vol. I: Basic problems, pathogenesis, diagnostics, therapy . Thieme, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-13-658101-6
  • (with Reinhard Walter :) Evaluation of child and adolescent psychiatric care. Analyzes and surveys in three Hessian districts . Enke, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 978-3-4329-7691-4
  • Adolescence Psychiatry . Thieme, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 978-3-1376-7801-4
  • (with Fritz Mattejat :) Children of psychotic parents. With instructions for counseling parents with a psychotic illness . Hogrefe, Göttingen 1994, ISBN 978-3-8017-0702-6
  • Psychotherapy in childhood and adolescence . Thieme, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 978-3-1310-3431-1
  • Continuity and a new beginning in university medicine after 1945: Symposium on university medicine on July 5 and 6, 1996 at the Philipps University of Marburg (with Gerhard Aumüller, Hans Lauer). Schueren Presseverlag GmbH, Marburg 1997, ISBN 978-3894721527
  • Schizophrenic diseases in childhood and adolescence: clinic, etiology, therapy and rehabilitation . Schattauer, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 978-3-7945-2328-3
  • (with Inge Kamp-Becker :) Asperger's Syndrome: Manuals of mental disorders in children and adolescents . Springer, Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 978-3-5402-0945-4
  • Autism - manifestations, causes, aids . 5th edition, Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-4065-7680-5
  • Homicides and violent crimes among young people. Causes, assessment, prognosis (with Matthias Martin, Gerhard Niebergall, Reinhard Walter and Britta Bannenberg). Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-6422-9870-7
  • Continuity and innovation. The history of child and adolescent psychiatry at the Phillips University of Marburg , Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-8471-0831-3 .

In English

  • (with Martin H. Schmidt :) Epidemiological Approaches in Child Psychiatry II. International Symposium Mannheim 1981. 24 Figures, 62 Tables . Thieme, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 978-313-646901-9
  • (with Martin H. Schmidt :) Anorexia Nervosa (Child & Youth Psychiatry: European Perspectives) . Hogrefe & Huber, Toronto 1990, ISBN 978-3-4568-1957-0
  • (with H. van Engeland :) Child and adolescent psychiatry in Europe: historical development, current situation, future perspectives . Steinkopff u. Springer, Darmstadt a. New York 1999, ISBN 978-3-6429-6005-5
  • Schizophrenia in Children and Adolescents: (Cambridge Child and Adolescent Psychiatry) . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2001, ISBN 978-0-5217-94282
  • The Mental Health of Children and Adolescents: An area of ​​global neglect (World Psychiatric Association). (with Barry Nurcombe, Myron Lowell Belfer, Norman Sartorius and Ahmed Okasha). John Wiley & Sons, Chichester 2007, ISBN 978-0-4705-1245-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mortgage for life , conversation with Helmut Remschmidt in Der Spiegel 6/2013, accessed on July 7, 2019
  2. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Helmut Remschmidt (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on July 19, 2016.
  3. ↑ Honorary Chairwoman . ( Memento of March 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) DGKJP website, accessed on March 16, 2014.
  4. ↑ International award for Helmut Remschmidt Website of the Faculty of Medicine at the Philipps University of Marburg , September 3, 2009. Accessed on March 25, 2014.
  5. ↑ Medical Faculty of the University of Würzburg [1] , accessed on February 27, 2019.
  6. ↑ EB: Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil. Dr. hc Helmut Remschmidt (81). In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt. Volume 116, No. 21, (May) 2019, p. B 885.
personal data
SURNAME Remschmidt, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German child and adolescent psychiatrist and psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Chernivtsi , Romania