Joachim Bauer

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Joachim Bauer (2015)

Joachim Bauer (born October 21, 1951 in Tübingen ) is a German doctor trained as an internist , psychiatrist and psychosomatic doctor . He is a professor at the University of Freiburg and as such works in the field of psychoneuroimmunology . Until his retirement at the beginning of April 2017, he worked as a senior physician in the outpatient department of the Psychosomatic Medicine Department of the Freiburg University Clinic and headed the expert opinion department. Bauer has a double habilitation and is the author of several publications and non-fiction books. After his retirement, he is still visiting professor at the International Psychoanalytic University Berlin (IPU) and practicing doctor.

biography

After his medical studies Joachim Bauer 1980 after defending his dissertation Clinical and psychosomatic aspects of pelvic inflammatory disease based on 27 unselected, clinically and psychologically deep cases examined in 1980 at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg to Dr. med. obtained his doctorate and initially worked as an assistant doctor at the Loretto Clinic Freiburg i. Br. As well as at the Heart Center Bad Krozingen . From 1982 to 1984 he conducted research at the Biochemical Institute of the University of Freiburg in the field of gene regulation of immune messenger substances and acute phase proteins and was then, among other things, project manager in three special research areas of the German Research Foundation (DFG).

From 1984 to 1990 he trained as a specialist in internal medicine at the Freiburg University Hospital. Bauer also conducted research in the field of immunology . After a research stay at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York , he completed his habilitation with the thesis Transmission of inflammatory signals between cells of the blood and liver parenchyma cells by the body's own signal factors using the example of interleukin-6 for the subject internal medicine with Wolfgang Gerok . Bauer then moved to the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University Clinic in Freiburg, where he completed specialist training in psychiatry and also completed his habilitation in this subject. He then worked as a doctor until his retirement, later as a senior physician and head of the psychiatric outpatient clinic and participated in the psychiatry and psychotherapy department in setting up research laboratories and headed a neurobiological working group.

In 1992, Bauer was appointed university professor for psychoneuroimmunology . During his work at the Department of Psychiatry he dealt with Alzheimer's disease as well as neurobiological and psychobiological aspects of depression . He also published a book on the diagnosis and therapy of Alzheimer's disease . Bauer sees a possible connection between lifestyle in healthy years and later dementia.

In 2000, Bauer, who has since become a specialist in psychosomatic medicine, moved to the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine at the Freiburg University Hospital. There he worked as a senior physician in the department's outpatient department. Since then he has dealt with somatoform diseases , depressive diseases , anxiety disorders , post-traumatic stress disorders and burnout syndrome . Bauer led several research projects that dealt with mental and physical health in schools (especially with teachers' health). From January 2009 to December 2010, in addition to his duties in Freiburg, Bauer took on the role of medical director of the Hochgrat Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine in Stiefenhofen for two years . Here he introduced, among other things, the therapy methods "Schema-Focused Therapy" and " Mindfulness -Based Stress Reduction", MBSR. Since January 2013, Bauer and Stefan Schmidt have been leading a sub-project of a new Collaborative Research Center SFB 1015 “Leisure” set up by the German Research Foundation DFG at the University of Freiburg. Bauer is visiting professor at the Berlin International Psychoanalytic University (IPU). In 2017, Bauer took over the patronage of the "Mediation as an attitude" project of the German Mediation Foundation.

In 2002, Joachim Bauer initiated the Tuesday Colloquium Soul-Body-Spirit at the University of Freiburg , a series of lectures that has taken place every week in the university's auditorium since then. The lectures offer insights into the current state of research in psychosomatics and psychotherapy.

Non-fiction

In the book The Memory of the Body - How Relationships and Lifestyles Control Our Genes , Bauer shows his view of the interplay between processes in the brain, determined by interpersonal relationships, and the biology of the body. The book also gives a biological interpretation of the traditional concept of soul . Bauer sees genetic processes as subject to regulation by life events.

He argues similarly in Why I Feel What You Feel - Intuitive Communication and the Secret of Mirror Neurons using what are known as mirror neurons . This contribution was cited by neuroscientists Claus Lamm and Jasminka Majdandžić as an example of “fairly uncritical popular science books ” on the subject of mirror neurons. The notion of empathy spread through this book is not empirically proven and even contradicts empirical findings. Thus, this book gives a seemingly well-founded but misleading understanding of empathy.

From Bauer's point of view, Praise of the School shows the importance of the neurobiological findings of recent years for teaching and learning in schools, and the title alludes to Bernhard Bueb's praise of the discipline .

Pain threshold - the origin of everyday and global violence shows aggression with the knowledge of modern neurobiology. Not only physical attacks, but also social exclusion and humiliation can lead to aggression, which would serve our neurobiological motivation system aimed at social recognition .

Bauer's book on modern interpretations and findings of the theory of evolution alludes in the title The Cooperative Gene - Farewell to Darwinism to Dawkin's The Selfish Gene . In a book review from 2008, the molecular geneticist and evolutionary biologist Axel Meyer criticized Bauer's view that environmental disasters would result in the cooperative restructuring of the genome, which would then help species adapt or create new species. However, this view is "devoid of any scientific evidence". Bauer's theses on cooperativity, communication and creativity in the genome are not scientifically explained and show deep incomprehension and superficial half-knowledge.

Principle of humanity explains the neurobiological basis of human willingness to cooperate. The focus is on the thesis that social acceptance is a primary human motivation. In this context, the book deals with the image of man that emerged from Darwin's reception in Germany.

In the book Work - Why It Makes Us Happy or Sick, published in 2013, Bauer describes his view of the history of human work , its development under the conditions of the “culture of the new capitalism” ( Richard Sennett ) and neurobiological aspects that formed the background for the increase the burnout syndrome and other work-related mental illness.

In his book Self Control - The Rediscovery of Free Will Bauer goes on for decades conducted in several scientific disciplines debate about the existence or non-existence of free will one which he interpreted as a corridor within which the human being is capable of self-control to learn. Bauer makes it clear that successful self-control should be practiced as early as childhood and adolescence and that it is an endangered asset that can be acquired over and over again. The book places particular emphasis on the power of good self-control in sick people, where, as Bauer puts it, they can take on the role of an “inner doctor”. Bauer presents neurobiologically based connections between the human ability to develop a will and the self-healing powers in the event of illness. The neurologist Lüder Deecke , one of the discoverers of the readiness potential , calls Bauer's book a “great success”; It also makes it clear to laypeople in a scientifically founded way that, contrary to the assertion of some neuroscientists, humans are not completely determined and that freedom of will is not an illusion.

Expert opinion in the NSU process

Bauer acted as an expert in the NSU trial against members and supporters of the right-wing extremist terror group National Socialist Underground (NSU). On behalf of her election defense lawyer , he prepared a judicial opinion on Beate Zschäpe after speaking with her for 16 hours. He attested that Zschäpe had a serious dependent personality disorder for the period of the crimes committed by the NSU ; Conditions for a reduced debt capacity are given. Bauer was questioned about his opinion in court on May 18, 2017. Co-plaintiffs and observers of the NSU trial criticized methodological deficits. In addition, it became known that Bauer had offered his report to the newspaper Die Welt for publication and had complained about an alleged “witch hunt” against Zschäpe.

On May 24, 2017, the three co-plaintiffs of the Yozgat Bauer family turned it down because of bias. The Federal Prosecutor later joined the bias petition of several co-plaintiffs against Bauer. She accused Bauer of not having prepared his report impartially, but rather "result-oriented and interest-based". The Higher Regional Court followed this request on July 11, 2017 and found that there were “legitimate doubts about its impartiality”.

Publications

Science articles

Bauer is the author of numerous scientific publications.

Non-fiction

  • Alzheimer's disease - neurobiology, psychosomatics, diagnostics and therapy. Schattauer, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-7945-1634-6 .
  • The Body's Memory - How Relationships and Lifestyles Control Our Genes. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2002. (from 2004: Piper, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-492-24179-4 )
  • Why I Feel What You Feel - Intuitive Communication and the Secret of Mirror Neurons. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-455-09511-9 .
  • Principle of humanity - why we cooperate naturally. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-455-50017-X .
  • Praise the School - Seven Perspectives for Students, Teachers and Parents. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-455-50032-5 .
  • The cooperative gene - farewell to Darwinism. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-455-50085-1 .
  • Pain threshold - the origin of everyday and global violence. Blessing, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-89667-437-1 .
  • Work - Why our happiness depends on it and how it makes us sick. Blessing, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-89667-474-6 . (Paperback: Heyne, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-453-60354-7 )
  • Self-control - The rediscovery of free will. Blessing, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-89667-539-2 .
  • How we become who we are: The creation of the human self through resonance. Blessing, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-89667-620-7 .

honors and awards

In 1997, Bauer was awarded the Organon Research Prize by the German Society for Biological Psychiatry for discovering the involvement of the immune messenger substance interleukin-6 in Alzheimer's disease .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography on the website of Professor Bauer
  2. ↑ Curriculum University Hospital Freiburg SS 2015 ( Memento from June 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Bauer, Joachim, spoiled man, Jörg, Stadtmüller, Godehard: Joachim Bauer. CV examinations in Alzheimer's patients: Qualitative content analysis of premorbid development processes. In: Psychosocial Gerontology. Göttingen: Hogrefe, 1998. pp. 251-274
  4. ↑ J. Bauer. Possibilities for psychotherapeutic treatment in Alzheimer's patients in the early stages of the disease. The neurologist. May 1997, Volume 68, Issue 5, pp 421-424
  5. ↑ Joachim Bauer: Alzheimer's disease: neurobiology, psychosomatics, diagnostics and therapy. Schattauer 1994.
  6. ↑ AlzheimerForum - Book Review: The Memory of the Body - AAI. In: alzheimerforum.de. Retrieved May 29, 2015 .
  7. ^ Federal Mediation Congress. Bundesverband Mediation, 2010, accessed February 19, 2015.
  8. ↑ SFB 1015 Leisure. Concepts, spaces, figures ( Memento from February 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ^ IPU Berlin
  10. ^ German Foundation Mediation
  11. ↑ TUESDAY COLLOQUIUM, Freiburg University Medical Center. Retrieved February 15, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Joachim Bauer: The body's memory - How relationships and lifestyles control our genes. Eichborn, Frankfurt 2004.
  13. ↑ Joachim Bauer: The memory of the body. How relationships and lifestyles control our genes. In: perlentaucher.de. Retrieved May 29, 2015 .
  14. ↑ Joachim Bauer: Why I feel what you feel - Intuitive communication and the secret of mirror neurons. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2005.
  15. ^ C Lamm, J. Majdandžić: The role of shared neural activations, mirror neurons, and morality in empathy - A critical comment. In: Neuroscience research. Volume 90C, January 2015, ISSN  1872-8111 , pp. 15-24, doi : 10.1016 / j.neures.2014.10.008 , PMID 25455743 (free full text) (review).
  16. ^ Joachim Bauer: Praise of the school - Seven perspectives for students. Teachers and parents. Hoffmann and Campe, later Heyne (2008)
  17. ↑ Joachim Bauer: Pain Limit - From the origin of everyday and global violence. Blessing, Munich 2011.
  18. ↑ Joachim Bauer: Pain limit. The origin of everyday and global violence. In: perlentaucher.de. Retrieved May 29, 2015 .
  19. ↑ Joachim Bauer. The cooperative gene Farewell to Darwinism. Hoffmann and Campe 2008.
  20. ↑ Axel Meyer : Quantum Leap: Stupid Stuff About Darwin . In: Handelsblatt , December 4, 2008, PDF , accessed on November 17, 2015.
  21. ↑ Principle of humanity. Why we cooperate naturally. Heyne. 2006., 7th edition. 2014.
  22. ^ Bauer, J .: work. Why it makes us happy or sick. 2013
  23. ↑ Self-control - The rediscovery of free will. Karl-Blessing-Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-89667-539-2 .
  24. ↑ L. Deecke: J. Bauer. Self-control. The rediscovery of free will. Book review. In: The neurologist. 6-2015. P. 747
  25. ↑ Reviewer in need of explanation. In: Spiegel Online , May 18, 2017.
  26. ↑ The second face of Beate Zschäpe. In: Spiegel Online , May 3, 2017.
  27. ^ NSU trial: reviewer in need of explanation. In: Deutsche Welle , May 18, 2017.
  28. ↑ Tom Sundermann: A Zschäpe report becomes a farce. In: Zeit Online , May 19, 2017; Body, soul and chocolates. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 18, 2017.
  29. ↑ Federal Prosecutor's Office: Mistrust against Zschäpe experts is justified. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 20, 2017.
  30. ↑ Tom Sundermann: Zschäpe's preferred reviewer declared biased. In: Zeit Online , July 11, 2017.
  31. ↑ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joachim_Bauer ResearchGate>
  32. ^ PubMed
  33. ↑ See: [1]  ( 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. Questions to the author on SR- Kulturradio on May 13, 2007, accessed on April 11, 2011.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.ardmediathek.de  
  34. ↑ See: Cells can change the architecture of their genetic makeup - News from the workshop of evolution. Press release of the University of Freiburg from September 3, 2008, accessed on April 11, 2011.
  35. ↑ Alzheimer's disease: not only medication, but also psychological help
personal data
SURNAME Bauer, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychotherapist and psychiatrist specializing in psychosomatic medicine
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen