Herbert Fitzek

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Herbert Fitzek (born April 27, 1957 in Cologne ) is a German cultural and business psychologist.

Life

Fitzek studied psychology , philosophy and psychopathology at the University of Cologne from 1977 to 1985 with a diploma in 1985. He then taught there as a research assistant to Wilhelm Salber at the psychological institute. In 1993 he received his doctorate, in 2005 he completed his habilitation in psychology at the University of Cologne with a thesis on the comparison of methods in qualitative psychology and then worked as a private lecturer at this university. His work and publication focus in Cologne were the subjects of the history of psychology , everyday and cultural psychology as well as qualitative methods in psychological research.

1991–1996 he completed training in psychotherapy based on depth psychology (analytical intensive counseling). From 1991 to 1994 he worked in the psychotherapeutic outpatient clinic of the Psychological Institute in Cologne, and in 1999 he received his license to practice as a psychological psychotherapist.

In 2006 Fitzek was appointed to a professorship for economic and cultural psychology at a private university in Potsdam (Business School Potsdam, now BSP Business School Berlin ). Fitzek has been the prorector of the BSP Business School Berlin since 2010. His research focuses in teaching and research are now cultural psychology and everyday aesthetics, Gestalt theory and Gestalt psychology , psychological morphology , psychological anthropology , history of psychology, qualitative research methods, organizational development and art coaching. From 2009 to 2010 Fitzek was visiting lecturer at the International School of Management (Dortmund), in 2013 at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences , in 2014 at the University of Warsaw and at the Polish Academy of Sciences .

Fitzek has published numerous books and more than 70 other publications in various academic journals and manuals. He is a member of the board of the Society for Cultural Psychology and the extended board of the International Society for Gestalt Theory and Its Applications (GTA). Since 1986 he has been one of the editors of the magazine Zwischenenschritte. Contributions to a morphological psychology . Since 2012 he has been - together with Fiorenza Toccafondi, Silvia Bonacchi, Geert-Jan Boudewijnse, Jürgen Kriz , Gerhard Stemberger and Hans-Jürgen Walter - editor of the international multidisciplinary journal Gestalt Theory .

Fonts (selection)

  • 1993 (with A. Schulte , editor and co-author): Reality as an event. The spectrum of a psychology of everyday life and culture . Bonn: Bouvier.
  • 1994: The Morphology Case. Biography of a science . Bonn: Bouvier.
  • 1996 (with W. Salber): Gestalt psychology . History and practice . Darmstadt: Scientific Book Society. ISBN 978-3-534-12573-9 .
  • 1998 (with M. Ley, editor and co-author): Everyday Figurations. Basics of a psychological culture theory . Bonn: Bouvier.
  • 2000: Design “act”. Action centers in the spiritual sphere of activity according to Max Wertheimer . Gestalt Theory, 22 , 3-19.
  • 2003 (with M. Ley, editor and co-author): Everyday life on the move. A psychological profile of contemporary culture . Giessen: Psychosozial-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-89806-287-9 .
  • 2008: Content and form of expressions as access ways to psychic reality. A comparison of content analysis and morphology as method concepts in qualitative social research . Lengerich: Pabst Science. ISBN 978-3-89967-444-6 .
  • 2009 (with Volker Ladenthin and Michael Ley): Das Internat . A manual . Ergon, Würzburg 2009. ISBN 978-3-89913-666-1 .
  • 2010: Gestalt Psychology. In G. Mey & K. Mruck (eds.), Handbook Qualitative Research in Psychology . Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (p. 94-106)
  • 2011 (with Ralph Sichler, editor and co-author): Cultures in Dialog. Fields and forms of intercultural communication and competence. Giessen: Psychosozial-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-89806-848-2 .
  • 2014: Gestalt psychology compact. Basics of a Psychology for Practice . Springer, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, ISBN 978-3-658-04275-2 .

literature

  • Fitzek 2006: Psychology as a means of securing evidence. DAGP / ÖAGP information, 15 (3), 3-5. (autobiographical)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Diploma thesis on the subject of investigations into the understanding of the soul in theological publications around 1750 .
  2. ↑ Dissertation on the subject of versions of morphology. Psychological reconstruction of the theory of shape and transformation in the history of science .
  3. ↑ Habilitation thesis Content and form of expressions as access routes to psychic reality. A comparison of content analysis and morphology as method concepts in qualitative social research .
  4. ↑ Herbert Fitzek's list of publications on the BSP website
  5. ↑ PsychAuthors publication list Herbert Fitzek
  6. ↑ see review by Ingo Dammer
  7. ↑ see review by Tatjana van de Kamp
personal data
SURNAME Fitzek, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural and business psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne