Jakob Christ (medical doctor)

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Jakob Remigius Christ (born February 10, 1926 in Langenbruck , † March 17, 2008 in Basel ) was a Swiss psychiatrist .

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Jakob Christ was the son of the doctor Anton Leonhard Christ and his wife Annie Alice née Kambli. He grew up with three brothers in Langenbruck. His grandfather Alfred Christ-Paravicini (1865–1928) was also a doctor and in 1896 the founder of the first Swiss tuberculosis sanatorium in Langenbruck, which was later managed by Anton Leonhard Christ.

Jakob Christ attended grammar school in Basel and began studying medicine, which he continued in Amsterdam . He passed the state examination in 1951 in Lausanne . In 1952 he was at the University of Zurich in Manfred Bleuler with a thesis on the psychopathology of Addison's disease to Dr. med. PhD .

Then he emigrated to the United States . His son from his first wife Cornelia van der Horst, who died in 1952, was raised by relatives in Amsterdam. Christ initially worked as an assistant at a psychiatric clinic in Richmond , from 1953 in New York and from 1954 in New Haven . From 1955 he wanted for naturalization a military service serve and worked until 1957 as a psychiatrist in the Navy in Boston . During this time he did a training analysis with Helene Deutsch . In 1957 he became a senior physician at a psychiatric clinic in Boston, he also worked in teaching and ran his own practice. After his second wife Barbara Fierke died in 1968, with whom he had two daughters and a son, he went to Atlanta in 1969 . He worked at several clinics and began to look into socio-psychiatric treatment methods. In collaboration with well-known physicians such as Theodore Lidz , Fritz Redlich , Alfred Stanton , Morris Schwartz , Robert Rapoport and Gerald Caplan , he worked on the development of methods such as milieu therapy , group psychotherapy , family and couple therapy and crisis intervention .

In 1978 he divorced his third wife Mary Hill, in 1979 he married Jane Lippincott Smith and moved back to Switzerland . There he became the second chief physician alongside Theodor Cahn at the Cantonal Psychiatric Clinic Basel-Landschaft in Liestal . With his experience in social psychiatry in the United States, he worked to improve outpatient care for mentally ill patients. In 1980 a counseling center for the external psychiatric services was founded, and he became its chief physician. A day clinic was set up in Liestal and discussion groups, shared apartments and drug help centers were organized in Liestal and in the Bruderholzspital . In 1991 he retired. Jakob Bösch took over his position as chief physician.

From 1980 to 2001 Jakob Christ taught psychopathology and social psychiatry at the University of Education and Social Work in Basel . He ran a private practice in Basel and was a member of the board of the Swiss Society for Social Psychiatry. From his fourth marriage he had a son and a daughter.

Fonts

  • On the psychopathology of Addison's disease. Dissertation. University of Zurich 1952, DNB 571888798 .
  • with Ulrike Hoffmann-Richter : Therapy in the community. Group work, group therapy and group psychotherapy in everyday psychiatric life. Psychiatrie-Verlag, Bonn 1997, ISBN 978-3-88414-203-5 .
  • Experienced social psychiatry. From American beginnings and European traditions. Autobiography. Psychiatrie-Verlag, Bonn 2002, ISBN 978-3-88414-302-5 .

literature

  • Theodor Cahn: Obituary for Dr. Jakob Christ (1926-2008). In: Information from the Swiss Society for Social Psychiatry. May 2008, p. 29 ( online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Excerpt from the Tribe of Christ
  2. ↑ Healthy air from Langenbruck: A sanatorium for children on architekturbasel.ch, October 6, 2019
  3. ↑ a b Lukas Ott : You go in to get out again! History of psychiatry in the canton of Basel-Landschaft. Schwabe, Basel 2017, ISBN 978-3-7965-3766-0 , p. 145 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  4. ↑ Lukas Ott: You go in to get out again! History of psychiatry in the canton of Basel-Landschaft. Schwabe, Basel 2017, ISBN 978-3-7965-3766-0 , p. 144 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  5. ↑ Lukas Ott: You go in to get out again! History of psychiatry in the canton of Basel-Landschaft. Schwabe, Basel 2017, ISBN 978-3-7965-3766-0 , p. 159 ( limited preview in Google book search).
personal data
SURNAME Christ, Jacob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Christ, Jakob Remigius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Langenbruck
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 2008
Place of death Basel