Jürgen Margraf
Jürgen Margraf (born June 29, 1956 in Korbach ) is a German psychologist and has held a Humboldt Professorship , the chair for clinical psychology and psychotherapy at the Ruhr University in Bochum, since 2009 .
From 1999 to 2005 he was Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board for Psychotherapy and from 2012 to 2014 President of the German Society for Psychology . Margraf has been a member of the Leopoldina since 2009 . In 2015 he was elected to the Academia Europaea .
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Margraf worked in the chair at universities in Münster, Berlin, Dresden and Basel. He deals with the cognitive explanation of anxiety and panic disorders , depression , eating disorders and psychophysiology as well as the development of corresponding psychotherapy concepts .
Margraf's vicious circle model is a cognitive explanation of panic disorders . According to this, physical reactions ( sweat , shortness of breath , palpitations, etc.) - triggered by stress or sport - lead to a cognitive risk assessment, i.e. fear. The automatic reactions of the body are the same symptoms that evolutionary psychologically enable flight or attack. Therefore, there is positive feedback as the fear triggers the symptoms and these in turn create fear. This increases the fear up to panic disorder.
Margraf developed the Marburg therapy model, a 15-hour therapy to heal anxiety disorders with a duration of 2.5 months. The model works with cognitions (conveying information about anxiety disorders, controlling attention using the example of the heartbeat, detecting misinterpretations, self-instruction training, checking hypotheses, decastrophizing). This allows the patient to check and replace their false cognitions. In addition, there is behavioral confrontation training on resistance to the stimuli.
Fonts (selection)
- with Silvia Schneider: Panic attacks and their treatment. Berlin, Springer-Verlag 1990
- Panic Fear: Assaults Out of Nowhere / Psychology Today Nov, 1989
- Jürgen Margraf and Silvia Schneider (eds.): Handbook of behavior therapy. Springer, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-662-54910-0 .
See also
Individual evidence
Web links
- Homepage at the University of Bochum
- Brief curriculum vitae of Jürgen Margraf (PDF; 91 kB)
- Entry by J. Margraf in the Bochum university bibliography
- Film on the occasion of the award of the Humboldt Professorship in 2009
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Margraf, Jürgen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German psychologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 29, 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Korbach |