Josef W. Egger

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Josef Wilhelm Egger (born March 4, 1949 near Graz ) is an Austrian clinical psychologist , behavioral medicine and university professor for biopsychosocial medicine at the Medical University of Graz . He is known for his work on the biopsychosocial model and as a pioneer for a holistic way of thinking and working in scientific medicine.

Life

After graduating from high school , Egger studied psychology and biology at the University of Graz from 1969 , where he was a study assistant from 1972 and from his doctorate in 1975 contract assistant at the Institute for Psychology. From 1976 to 1983 he completed his clinical training in the cardiological rehabilitation center Felbring (Wiener Neustadt) and in Vienna. From 1980 lectureships at the universities of Graz and Vienna followed. In 1983 he became an assistant at what was then the Institute for Medical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the Medical Faculty of the University of Graz, where he completed his habilitation in Medical Psychology in 1985. From 1975 to 1985 he completed a series of special training courses in Austria, Germany and Switzerland. In 1985 he founded the first scientific department for behavioral medicine in Austria at the University of Graz. He is the co-founder of three scientific journals, including editor of Psychological Medicine .

In 1989 he qualified for a second time in the field of clinical psychology at the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of Graz. For many years he was deputy director of the Clinical Institute for Medical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the University of Graz, where he was appointed associate professor in 1990 and university professor in 2002. In 1996 he was a visiting professor at the University of Klagenfurt . Since 1999 he has headed the behavioral outpatient clinic for Medical Psychology / Hahnhof at the University Clinic for Medical Psychology and Psychotherapy Graz. In 2005 he was appointed head of the research unit for behavioral medicine , health psychology and empirical psychosomatics and in 2008 head of the teaching unit "Communication, Supervision, Reflection" at the Medical University of Graz. In 2011 Josef W. Egger was appointed university professor for the field of biopsychosocial medicine in teaching at the Medical University of Graz, the first chair of its kind in the German-speaking area.

Scientific contribution

At the end of the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s, Josef W. Egger used the dawn of a multidimensional and multi-professional approach in human medicine to develop a more comprehensive way of thinking and working in rehabilitation medicine. He plays an important role in the implementation of psychosocial aspects in cardiac rehabilitation. After his habilitation in 1985 at the Medical Faculty of the University of Graz, he also habilitated in clinical psychology at the Karl-Franzens-University Graz in 1989 in order to bring the two departments of human medicine and clinical psychology closer together and to be able to conduct interdisciplinary research and teaching. Numerous training courses, initiatives to found specialist journals and organizations as well as extensive teaching activities for students of medicine and clinical psychology are just as much a focus of his medical-psychological work environment as the committed postgraduate training of doctors in psychotherapeutic medicine. His main theoretical concern is the further development of the biopsychosocial model into a theory of body-soul unity. After that the term psychosomatic illness is obsolete. The training of doctors requires, regardless of their specialist discipline, sufficient competence to operate diagnostics and therapy in both "word", "medicine" and "knife". Here comes speaking medicine to a supporting role, which emphasizes the importance of a professional, succeed physician-patient communication for achieving a therapeutic goal. He achieved this with his appointment as professor for biopsychosocial medicine in teaching at the Medical University of Graz in a comprehensive teaching concept for all students. As President of the International Society for Biopsychosocial Medicine, he is one of the pioneers for a holistic way of thinking and working in scientific medicine.

Membership in international scientific associations

  • President of the International Society for Biopsychosocial Medicine (IS-BPS-Med)
  • Co-founder and Deputy Chairman of the Scientific Society for Psychotherapeutic Medicine (WGPM)
  • Honorary member of the European umbrella organization for stress medicine (DA-CH, Federal Association Germany)

honors and awards

Publications

Books

  • as an author: The unity of body and soul. The bio-psycho-social perspective on illness and health. Baden-Baden: Deutscher Wissenschafts-Verlag (DWV) 2020, ISBN 978-3-86888-155-4 , 288 pp.
  • Theory and practice of biopsychosocial medicine. Body-soul unity and speaking medicine. Vienna: Facultas. 2017, ISBN 978-3-7089-1498-5
  • Integrative behavior therapy and psychotherapeutic medicine. A biopsychosocial model. Berlin: Springer 2015, ISBN 978-3-658-06802-8 , eBook: ISBN 978-3-658-06803-5
  • as editor: Psychology in Medicine. Medical psychology. Psychosomatics, psychotherapy. Wiener Universitätsverlag, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-85114-132-6 , p. 296.
  • with E. Raab and J. Zollneritsch (eds.): Psychologie in der Steiermark. Leykam, Graz 1993, ISBN 3-7011-7269-2 .
  • with W. Freidl and G. Friedrich: Psychology of functional voice disorders. Orac, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-7007-0305-8 , p. 198.
  • with W. Pieringer (Hrsg.): Psychotherapie im Wandel. Wiener Universitätsverlag, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-85114-056-7 .
  • with P. Stix: heart attack and stroke. For mentally dealing with a life-threatening illness. Hippokrates, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-7773-0905-2 , p. 444.
  • with U. Eisenhardt and P. Innerhofer (eds.): Applied Psychology. Fields of practice of a science. Literas, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-85429-047-0 .
  • as Ed .: Clinical Psychology in Rehabilitation. Literas, Vienna 1982, ISBN 3-85429-010-1 .
  • with R. Danzinger and P. Jeschek: The way to prison. The influence of family socialization and official selection on the emergence of delinquency. 2nd expanded edition. Beltz, Weinheim / Basel 1979, ISBN 3-407-50087-4 , p. 174.

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ psychologie.uniklinikumgraz.at
  2. ↑ medunigraz.at
  3. ^ W. Langosch, JW Egger: Results of Psychological Studies on Cardiovascular Disease in the Federal Republic of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In: The German Journal Of Psychology. 1985; 9 (1), pp. 63-92.
  4. ^ JW Egger: Behavioral Medicine. In: O. Frischenschlager, M. Hexel, W. Kantner-Rumplmair, M. Ringler, W. Söllner, UV Wisiak (eds.): Textbook of Psychosocial Medicine. Basics of medical psychology, psychosomatics, psychotherapy and medical sociology. Springer, Vienna 1995.
  5. ↑ JW Egger: Health Behavior and Motivation. In: I. Kryspin-Exner, B. Lueger-Schuster, G. Weber (eds.): Clinical psychology and health psychology. Wiener Universitätsverlag, Vienna 1998, pp. 120–142.
  6. ↑ JW Egger: The evolutionary epistemology and the biopsychosocial concept of disease in medicine. In: W. Pieringer, F. Ebner (Ed.): To the philosophy of medicine. Springer, Vienna / New York 2000.
  7. ↑ JW Egger: Basics of "Psychosomatics" - On the application of the biopsychosocial disease model in practice. In: Psychological Medicine. Facultas University Press, Vienna 2008; 19, 2, pp. 12-22.
  8. ↑ JW Egger: Theory of the body-soul unity: the extended biopsychosocial disease model - to a scientifically founded holistic understanding of disease. In: H. Petzold (ed.); Alexander R. Lurija: Neuroscience and Psychotherapy - Integrative and Biopsychosocial Models. Krammer, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-901811-27-2 .
  9. ↑ Josef W. Egger. Theory and practice of biopsychosocial medicine. Body-soul unity and speaking medicine. Vienna: Facultas. 2017, ISBN 978-3-7089-1498-5
  10. ^ JW Egger, MD Linder: International Society of Biopsychosocial Medicine (IS-BPS-Med) - Venice Declaration 2010; International Society for Biopsychosocial Medicine - Venice Declaration 2010. In: Psychological Medicine. 2010; 21 (2), pp. 68-69.
  11. ↑ uni-graz.at ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-graz.at
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personal data
SURNAME Egger, Josef W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Egger, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian medic
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH near Graz