Karl-Heinz Menzen

Karl-Heinz Menzen (* 1942 in Bonn ) is one of the initiators of German art therapy in the early 1980s. He established in 1982 the first German training for art therapy at the cultural-educational Center for development of the University of the Arts Berlin , years later was a visiting professor of art and therapy with Peter Gorsen at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna , founded the Austrian College of Art Therapy , was In 1999 he was appointed professor for art and therapy at the University of Fine Arts in Dresden and years later returned to the Catholic University of Applied Sciences in Freiburg , to focus on art therapy with dementia patients at the Neurological Clinic Elzach and in various gerontopsychiatric departments, for example the Center for Gerontology and Geriatrics Freiburg , to work artistically with people with dementia. For years he was in charge of the Thíkwa theater workshop for people with disabilities as a supervisor. His work currently focuses on aging and disability as well as the application of neuro-aesthetics to rehabilitation .

Short biography

After graduating in philosophy , theology and psychology , after years of assistance to the professor of psychology and psychoanalyst Wolfgang Hochheimer , founder of the German Wilhelm Reich Society , after his doctoral thesis on "Drafts of Subjective Totality" with the Adorno friend and co-founder of the Humanist Union Ulrich Sonnemann , a work that relates the aesthetics of German idealism and romantic medicine , after 7 years of psychoanalysis with the chairman of the International Society of Jungian Analysts, Hans Dieckmann - he is now professor for art therapy and rehabilitation at the University of Art Therapy Nürtingen . According to the Psychotherapy Act, he is registered as a psychotherapist with the ARGE for Art Therapy and Supervision in Vienna. For the Caritas. Team Lifestyle, he supervises the studio work in the workshop Benedikt through further training .

Professor of Art and Rehabilitation at the Nürtingen University of Art Therapy
Scientific director of the Austrian College for Art Therapy
Head of the additional teaching program for social and curative art therapy at the Catholic University of Freiburg
Board member (public relations officer) at the German Society for Artistic Forms of Therapy (DGKT eV)

Co-editor of the journal Art and Therapy

Head of the master's program "Art Therapy" at the Sigmund Freud University in Vienna

Curative art therapy. Method and practice Freiburg: Lambertus, 1994
Art therapy with age-confused people (2nd edition). Munich: Reinhardt, 2008
The image in art, education and therapy. Berlin: Lit, 2008
Basics of art therapy (3rd ed.). UTB, Munich: Reinhardt UTB, 2009
Art therapy in social work, Verlag Modernes Lern, 2012
Artistic therapies in the social hotspot: A guide to the institutionalization of art therapeutic work, Verlag Modernes Lern, 2014