Henning Saß

Henning Saß (born December 4, 1944 in Kiel ) is a German psychiatrist .

Life

Saß passed his Abitur in 1963 and then enlisted in the German Armed Forces for two years. After studying medicine in Kiel , Vienna and Mainz , which he completed with the state examination in 1972, he completed his doctorate in Mainz in 1974 on the subject of the causes of mental illness in the self-image of people. In 1976 he completed his specialist training at Heidelberg University Hospital . After graduating as a specialist in psychiatry in 1978, he was authorized to use the additional title of “ psychotherapy ” in 1982 . Finally , he completed his habilitation in 1986 on the subject of psychopathy , sociopathy , dissociality . On the differential typology of personality disorders . (→ Springer 1987, doi: 10.1007 / 978-3-642-52269-7 .)

From 1987 to 1990 Saß was head of the department for forensic psychiatry at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . From 1990 to 2000 he was professor and director of the Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Medical Faculty of RWTH Aachen University and from 1994 to 2000 he was also Dean of the Medical Faculty. From 2001 to 2010, Saß was medical director and chairman of the board of the Aachen University Hospital . At the end of 2010, Saß retired and has been emeritus ever since .

Henning Saß has worked on the German edition of DSM IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) and is a member of the advisory board of the German Society for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Neurology . Saß is one of the best-known forensic-psychiatric experts in Germany. Among other things, he examined the car design icon Claus Luthe ( Audi NSU , BMW ), who killed his son , in 1990 , and the murderer of the fashion designer Rudolph Moshammer in 2005 . The main defendant in the NSU trial , Beate Zschäpe , declined an investigation by Saß. Therefore, he had to rely on the files for his 2013 report. Saß saw no evidence of a relevant mental disorder in Zschäpe.

Fonts (selection)

(as ed.): Affect offenses . Interdisciplinary contributions to the assessment of affective accentuated crimes. Springer Verlag, Berlin 1993. ISBN 3-540-57231-7 .
(as ed.): Psychopathological methods and psychiatric research. Gustav Fischer Verlag , Jena 1996. ISBN 3-437-31006-2 .
with Sabine Herpertz (Ed.): Psychotherapy of personality disorders. Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart 1999. ISBN 3-13-111831-8 .
with Sabine Herpertz (Ed.): Personality disorders. Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart 2003. ISBN 3-13-128231-2 .
with Norbert Leygraf , Dieter Dölling and Hans-Ludwig Kröber (ed.): Handbook of Forensic Psychiatry in five volumes. Steinkopff / Springer, Darmstadt / Heidelberg / Berlin 2006–2010 (→ individual volumes ).

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Gisela Friedrichsen: “I found that to be good” , Der Spiegel 50/1990, pp. 112–114.
↑ Psychiatrist considers Zschäpe to be fully culpable , Süddeutsche Zeitung of May 1, 2013

personal data
SURNAME	Sat, Henning
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH	4th December 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kiel

[1] Gisela Friedrichsen: “I found that to be good” , Der Spiegel 50/1990, pp. 112–114.

[2] Psychiatrist considers Zschäpe to be fully culpable , Süddeutsche Zeitung of May 1, 2013