Joachim Klosterkötter

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Joachim Klosterkötter (born August 4, 1946 in Meschede ) is a German psychiatrist and psychotherapist .

Academic and professional career

Joachim Klosterkötter is the son of the university professor for environmental medicine Werner Klosterkötter († 1978). He first studied human medicine at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . In 1972 he passed the state examination there and received his doctorate . With scholarships from the German National Academic Foundation , he then studied psychology and philosophy at the University of Bochum and the University of Cologne

From 1978 to 1983 he completed his training as a specialist in psychiatry and neurology at the University Psychiatric Clinic in Cologne and from 1984 was clinical senior physician at the Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . There he joined the working group of the then clinic director Gerd Huber and completed his habilitation in 1988 in psychiatry with a thesis on the "basic symptoms and end-point phenomena of schizophrenia". In 1990 he took over the duties of senior physician and deputy clinic director at the Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy RWTH Aachen University , where he was appointed adjunct professor for psychiatry and psychotherapy in 1994. He also held professorships at the Medical Academy Erfurt and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg .

From 1996 until his retirement in 2014 he worked at the University of Cologne as a professor for psychiatry and psychotherapy as well as director of the clinic and polyclinic for psychiatry and psychotherapy at the University Hospital Cologne , where he was also deputy medical director from 2001 to 2003. He was also the dean of the Medical Faculty of the University of Cologne from 2006 to 2012 . Since 2015 he has continued to work in patient care and research at the MZV at the University Clinic in Cologne.

Klosterkötter was also visiting professor at Seoul National University from 2014 to 2016 .

Focus of work

Klosterkötter has developed the basic disorder research systematically advanced since 1984 by his academic mentor Gerd Huber at the end of the 1950s and together with the clinical psychologist Lilo Süllwolds and the psychiatric progression researcher Gisela Gross in three steps and made it usable for the prevention of mental illnesses. First of all, phenomenological studies showed that the positive symptoms typical of schizophrenia ( delusional perceptions , verbal hallucinations , influencing experiences) emerge from pre-existing basic disorders of thought, speech and perception processes by means of regularly passed transitional series. A series of psychopathological-neurobiological prediction studies showed that these initial cognitive-perceptual basic disorders , which occur on average 5–6 years before the onset of psychosis, indicate a high risk of disease and can predict the first psychotic episodes with great accuracy. In the third step, this was followed by the development, testing and provision of procedures with which the development of schizophrenic and other psychotic disorders can be prevented in the high-risk stage before the first manifestation by treating the predictive basic disorders.

In 1997, Klosterkötter began building the first German and European early detection and therapy center for increased mental illness risks (FETZ) at Cologne University Hospital, which is one of the world's leading centers for early detection of mental illnesses and has become a model for setting up comparable facilities at numerous international locations.

Other activities and memberships

Klosterkötter was a founding member and board member of the “Schizophrenia” competence network funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research ( BMBF ) and a network coordinator in the area of ​​“Early Detection and Intervention”. He was co-founder and until 2018 head of the two sections for "Prevention of Mental Disorders" of the DGPPN and the European Psychiatric Association (EPA). In addition, he established a section for "Early Detection and Intervention" that he has headed to this day in the European Scientific Association on Schizophrenia and other Psychoses (ESAS).

Klosterkötter continued the Weißenauer Arbeitsgemeinschaft (WAG) for psychosis research created by Gerd Huber . In addition to this, he founded in 2000 in Cologne Association for Mental Health (KVsG) supports the early detection and treatment of mental disease risk, while the Alzheimer's disease involves

Klosterkötter is a member of numerous national and international scientific advisory boards and specialist societies. He is a member of the board of trustees for the award of the Kurt Schneider Science Prize (Chair), the Gerd Huber Research Promotion Prize (Chair), the Hans Jörg Weitbrecht Prize for Clinical Neurosciences , the Aretaeus Prize and the Galenus von Pergamon Prize . Since 2015 he has been a member of the expert commission for medical treatment errors of the North Rhine Medical Association .

Awards

Publications (selection)

Klosterkötter is the author or co-author of around 800 medical-scientific publications in international journals as well as a long-time editor or co-editor of the German journal “Advances in Neurology and Psychiatry” and also advises the editorial boards of international scientific journals.

  • Basic and final symptoms of schizophrenia. An empirical study of the psychopathological transition series between deficit and productive schizophrenia symptoms , Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 1988, ISBN 3-540-18988-2 .
  • with Gisela Gross, Gerd Huber and Maria Linz: BSABS: Bonn scale for the assessment of basic symptoms. Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1987, ISBN 0-387-17383-8 .
  • as publisher: early diagnosis and early treatment of mental disorders. Springer, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-540-64440-7 .
  • with F. Schultze-Lutter, J. Addington and S. Ruhrmann: Schizophrenia Proneness Instrument Adult-Version (SPI-A). Giovanni Fioriti, Rome 2007, ISBN 978-88-87319-88-0 .
  • with Heinz Häfner, Andreas Bechdolf and Kurt Maurer: Psychoses - early detection and early intervention. Schattauer Verlag, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-608-42704-2 .
  • with G. Gross and R. Schüttler: 50 years of psychiatry. Schattauer Verlag, 2012
  • with Wolfgang Maier : Handbook Preventive Psychiatry: Research - Teaching - Care. Schattauer / Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-608-43050-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Prof. Dr. med. Joachim Klosterkötter. In: Advances in Neurology - Psychiatry. Thieme, accessed on December 15, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i City of Cologne: Speech by Lord Mayor Jürgen Roters on the occasion of the presentation of the Order of Merit on January 16, 2015, 11 a.m., Historic Town Hall, Hansasaal. Retrieved December 16, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c MVZ University Hospital Cologne: Team. Retrieved December 15, 2019 .
  4. ↑ FETZ Early Detection and Therapy Center. Retrieved December 16, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Promote prevention and early detection. In: Cologne Association for Mental Health e. V. Accessed December 16, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Honors in Cologne: People who give the city a face. January 18, 2015, accessed on December 15, 2019 (German).
  7. ↑ Much-cited scientists: Five researchers from the University of Cologne belong to the top international group. Retrieved December 15, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Klosterkötter, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatrist and psychotherapist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Meschede