Kai von Klitzing

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Kai von Klitzing, before 2017

Kai von Klitzing (born November 23, 1954 in Aachen ) is a German child and adolescent psychoanalyst , psychoanalyst and university professor at the Leipzig University Hospital . He conducts research in the fields of early childhood mental health, developmental psychopathology, and childhood psychotherapy .

Life

Kai von Klitzing is the son of the manufacturer Diether von Klitzing (1907–1985) and the photographer Brigitte von Klitzing (1914–2017). From 1974 to 1980 he studied medicine at the University of Freiburg , where he received his doctorate in 1981. From 1982 to 1986 he worked as an assistant doctor at the State Hospital Weissenau, Ravensburg (Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Ulm) and at the Hospital Lörrach in the subjects of psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry and pediatrics . In 1987 he took over first a senior physician and later a senior physician position at the child and adolescent psychiatric clinic in Basel with Dieter Bürgin . He completed his psychoanalytical training for children, adolescents and adults at the Swiss Society for Psychoanalysis and completed his habilitation in 1997 on the subject of “early child development and family relationships” at the University of Basel .

From 1997 to 1998 he spent a research stay with Robert N. Emde at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver . In 2000 he was appointed associate professor at the University of Basel. In 2006 he accepted a chair for child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy at the University of Leipzig and became director of the clinic for psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatics of children and adolescents at the Leipzig University Clinic. From 2012 to 2018 he was the medical and scientific head of the Department of Women's and Children's Medicine . In 2020 he was appointed visiting professor at the Sapienza University of Rome .

Scientific contribution

At the beginning of his scientific activity, von Klitzing dealt with the psychological development of infants and toddlers in connection with family relationships and the parents' imagination. He put a special emphasis on research in his studies along with Dieter Bürgin father-child relationship and the early triadic constellation father-mother child.

During his time in Colorado he conducted studies with Robert N. Emde and Kim Kelsay on the narratives of kindergarten children and their connection with mental disorders. After returning to Basel, he and Sonja Perren devoted himself to researching mental disorders in kindergarten age. He continued this line at the Leipzig University Clinic, where he dealt with stress regulation and diagnostic methods in preschool children with anxiety and depression disorders. Together with Tanja Göttken, he developed and evaluated a new type of psychoanalytic short-term therapy (PaKT) for children with symptoms of anxiety and depression .

Von Klitzing has been co-editor of the journal Kinderanalyse since 2002 and president of the World Association for Infant Mental Health since 2016.

honors and awards

In 2007 von Klitzing received the August Homburg Prize from the University of Würzburg for his research on developmental psychopathology in early childhood.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Shooting with Brigitte von Klitzing WDR 2016.
  2. ↑ K. von Klitzing, H. Simoni, D. Bürgin: Child development and early triadic relationships. In: The International journal of psychoanalysis. Volume 80 (Pt 1), February 1999, pp. 71-89, PMID 10216817 .
  3. ↑ Inge Seiffge-Krenke : Psychotherapy and Developmental Psychology: Relationships: Challenges, Resources, Risks , Springer, Berlin 2004, ISBN 9783662096000 , p. 203.
  4. ^ K. von Klitzing, H. Simoni, F. Amsler, D. Burgin: The role of the father in early family interactions. In: Inf Mental Hlth J. 20, 1999, pp. 222-237.
  5. ↑ Manfred Cierpka (Ed.): Early childhood 0-3 years: Counseling and psychotherapy for parents with babies and toddlers , Springer, Berlin 2012, ISBN 9783642396021 , p. 412.
  6. ↑ K. von Klitzing, K. Kelsay, RN Emde, J. Robinson, S. Schmitz: Gender-specific characteristics of 5-year-olds' play narratives and associations with behavior ratings. In: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 39, 2000, pp. 1017-1023.
  7. ^ Page, T: Assessing young children's perceptions of family relationships: Theory and applications of the Narrative Story-Stem Technique . In: AE Fortune, WJ Reid, and RL Miller (Eds.): Qualitative research in social work , 2nd ed. Columbia University Press, New York 2013, pp. 413-444, ISBN 9780231535441 , p. 430.
  8. ↑ S. Perren, A. von Wyl, p Stadelmann, D. Burgin, K. von Klitzing: Associations between behavioral / emotional difficulties in kindergarten children and the quality of Their peer relationships. In: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 45, 2006, pp. 867-876.
  9. ^ MA Dirks, A. De Los Reyes, M. Briggs-Gowan, D. Cella, LS Wakschlag: Annual research review: embracing not erasing contextual variability in children's behavior-theory and utility in the selection and use of methods and informants in developmental psychopathology. In: Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines. Volume 53, number 5, May 2012, pp. 558-574, doi : 10.1111 / j.1469-7610.2012.02537.x , PMID 22360546 , PMC 4720148 (free full text) (review).
  10. ↑ K. von Klitzing, S. Perren, AM Klein et al .: The interaction of social risk factors and HPA axis dysregulation in predicting emotional symptoms of five- and six-year-old children. In: J Psychiatr Res. 46, 2012, pp. 290-297.
  11. ^ A b D. J. Whalen, CM Sylvester, JL Luby: Depression and Anxiety in Preschoolers: A Review of the Past 7 Years. In: Child and adolescent psychiatric clinics of North America. Volume 26, number 3, July 2017, pp. 503-522, doi : 10.1016 / j.chc.2017.02.006 , PMID 28577606 , PMC 5458530 (free full text) (review).
  12. ^ K. von Klitzing, LO White, Y. Otto, S. Fuchs, HL Egger, AM Klein: Depressive comorbidity in preschool anxiety disorder. In: J Child Psychol Psychiatr. 55, 2014, pp. 1107-1116.
  13. ↑ T. Göttken, K. von Klitzing: Psychoanalytic short-term therapy with children (PaKT). 1st edition. Klett-Cotta, 2015, ISBN 978-3-608-94882-0 .
  14. ↑ T. Gottken, LO White, AM Klein, K. Klitzing: Short-term psychoanalytic child therapy for anxious children: a pilot study. In: Psychotherapy (Chic). 51, 2014, pp. 148–158.
  15. ↑ AM Wehry, K. Beesdo-Baum, MM Hennelly, SD Connolly, JR Strawn: Assessment and treatment of anxiety disorders in children and adolescents. In: Current psychiatry reports. Volume 17, number 7, July 2015, p. 52, doi : 10.1007 / s11920-015-0591-z , PMID 25980507 , PMC 4480225 (free full text) (review).
  16. ↑ Child analysis. Psychoanalysis in Childhood and Adolescence and Its Applications. In: Klett-Cotta Verlag. Retrieved May 27, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Prof. Dr. med. Kai von Klitzing. In: Leipzig University Hospital. Retrieved May 27, 2020 .
  18. ^ World Association for Infant Mental Health. Board of directors ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2016 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.waimh.org
  19. ↑ Background information on the August Homburger Prize .
  20. ↑ Laureate August Homburg Prize (PDF).
personal data
SURNAME Klitzing, Kai von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German child and youth psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen