Johann Christian Bolten

Johann Christian Bolten's book Thoughts of Psychological Cures

Johann Christian Bolten (born November 29, 1727 in Altona ; † November 16, 1757 there ) was a German doctor .

Live and act

Bolten was the son of the Altona provost Johann Bolten and the younger brother of the Hamburg city physicist Joachim Friedrich Bolten . He studied medicine at the University of Halle and was here in 1750 under the chairmanship of Johann August Unzer Dr. med. PhD. In 1754 he was appointed city physician in Altona with responsibility for the Pinneberg rule . He was an early forerunner and representative of psychotherapy . In 1751 he expressed in a book that he regards psychology as a basic science for psychotherapy, called "psychological cures" in its terminology. ( Whoever wants to learn to cure psychologically must be concerned with learning the laws of the nature of the soul. )

Works

Thoughts of psychological cures . Halle: Hemmerde, 1751

literature

Gernot Huppmann: Johann Christian Bolten - a forerunner of medical psychology. In: G. Nissen, F. Badura (Hrsg.): Series of publications by the German Society for the History of Neurology. Volume 2, Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1997, ISBN 3-8260-1487-1 , pp. 145–162.

Web links

http://www.sgipt.org/gesch/bolt_t.htm - Johann Christian Boltens demand (1751) to make a degree in psychology the basis of psychotherapy and the problem of definition.

Individual evidence

↑ Uwe Henrik Peters: About the origins of psychotherapy . In: Hermann Lang (ed.): What is psychotherapy and how does it work? Königshausen and Neumann 2004; Pp. 16-23

personal data
SURNAME	Bolten, Johann Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German doctor
DATE OF BIRTH	November 29, 1727
PLACE OF BIRTH	Altona
DATE OF DEATH	November 16, 1757
Place of death	Altona

[1] Uwe Henrik Peters: About the origins of psychotherapy . In: Hermann Lang (ed.): What is psychotherapy and how does it work? Königshausen and Neumann 2004; Pp. 16-23