Holger Bertrand Flöttmann

Holger Bertrand Flöttmann (* 1946 in Gütersloh ) is a German neurologist , psychiatrist and psychotherapist as well as non-fiction author . He worked as a resident specialist at the Kiel “Wilhelm Griesinger Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics”, which he founded, as its director.

Private life

Holger Bertrand Flöttmann was born in 1946 as the third of seven children of Ingeborg Flöttmann, b. Tinzmann and Wilhelm Flöttmann, born in Gütersloh / Westphalia. His father was a pharmaceutical chemist and translator, his mother a laboratory assistant and later head of the Inlingua language school in Gütersloh. He was shaped by the Protestant education at the Evangelical Stiftisches Gymnasium in Gütersloh. He refused military service. He spent his alternative service from 1966 to 1968 in Bethel at the Arimathia house. The accompanying training to become a nursing assistant specializes in epilepsy and psychiatry.

He married in 1982. This marriage had three children.

Professional activity

From 1968 to 1974 Flöttmann completed his medical studies in Kiel and was a medical assistant until 1975 . From 1976 to 1977 he trained in psychoanalysis / depth psychology at the Psychosomatic Clinic in Neutrauchburg / Isny ​​im Allgäu. At the same time, training in transactional analysis and gestalt therapy took place at the Institute for Group and Family Therapy in Munich . From 1977 to 1983 further training to become a specialist in neurology and psychiatry took place at the Kiel University Neurological Clinic . In 1982 he obtained the additional title of psychotherapy , and in 1998 he became a specialist in psychotherapeutic medicine . Flöttmann was authorized to train for the additional title of psychotherapy by the Schleswig-Holstein Medical Association. In 1991 he founded the Wilhelm Griesinger Institute and the Center for Anxiety Disorders and Dream Research.

Fear and dream research is the focus of Flöttmann's scientific activity, and he is considered a proven expert here. Since 1986, his employees have stored 43,000 dreams in a dream database (Dr. Flöttmann's Scientific Encyclopedia of Dream Symbols) . This encyclopedia contains 1,833 scientifically researched dream symbols. He is also the author of the non-fiction book Dreams show new ways . Flöttmann gave lectures at home and abroad.

Holger Flöttmann also campaigned for the family network , a family-political, Christian-conservative interest group that campaigns against childcare outside the family.

controversy

In 2005, Holger Flöttmann published the article "The Desire for a Child" as a guest author for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . In this, according to the magazine Emma , he “... diagnosed an 'infantile neurosis' with 'dry souls' and a great 'potential for rejection of the family with a deserving father, caring mother and children' in modern, working women.” Flöttmann was in favor in addition to the personal infantile neurosis, capitalism, socialism and feminism as well as Alice Schwarzer and Simone de Beauvoir are held responsible.

In response to this, Alice Schwarzer published the article “Who is Dr. Flöttmann? ”Thereupon Flöttmann decided to initiate a legal dispute before the Hamburg district court. Emma lost the process on ten out of twelve points requested.

In an interview with Junge Freiheit in 2006, Flöttmann said: "The virulent feminism, the excessive consumption and the narcissistic individualism result in child-hostile ways of life in men and women" and that "the massive, collective and depressive self-devaluation of the German national feeling increases the fertility of Germans affected. " According Flöttmann the mostly childless feminists would be the child's best at any time at heart.

Publications

• Tax law of life , Novum Verlag, Vienna, 2006, ISBN 978-3-902514-53-0 .
• Fear - Origin and Overcoming , Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 7th edition, ISBN 978-3-17-026145-7 .
• Dreams show new ways: Lexicon of the Unconscious , BOD Verlag, Norderstedt 2013, 6th edition, ISBN 978-3-8423-7197-2 .
• Dr. Flöttmann's Scientific Encyclopedia of Dream Symbols , BOD-Verlag, Norderstedt 2013, ISBN 978-3-8482-2135-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Holger Bertrand Flöttmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Silke Farmer: Psychiatrist: Feminism to blame for childlessness "Women back to the stove!" IMABE conference in Vienna, Wiener Zeitung , December 13, 2006.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Website of the Wilhelm Griesinger Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics in Kiel
2. ↑ Reviews, Schleswig-Holsteinisches Ärzteblatt, 10/2004  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Review: “Sleep is smart, dreams are foolish”, faz.net, March 15, 1999
4. ↑ Institute for Medical Anthropology and Bioethics (IMABE) Conference 2006: "Women's Identity and Family Culture"
5. ↑ Family network ( Memento of the original from July 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ "Flöttmann gegen Emma" Emma, ​​November / December 2007
7. ↑ “Dried Souls” by Ansbert Kneip, SPIEGEL Online, September 17, 2007
8. ↑ Attack on the family  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Interview, Junge Freiheit, July 7, 2006