Karl Peter Kisker

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Karl Peter Kisker (born September 25, 1926 in Mülheim an der Ruhr , † November 27, 1997 in Hanover ) was a German psychiatrist and psychologist .

Life

Kisker studied medicine and psychology in Heidelberg. He worked at the Heidelberg Psychiatric University Clinic under the ordinariate of Kurt Schneider , where he researched and wrote about the psychiatry of the persecuted . In 1959, Kisker completed his habilitation in Heidelberg with the thesis "The change in experience of the schizophrenic" . In 1966, Kisker became the first psychiatric professor at the Hannover Medical School (MHH), where he headed the “Clinical Psychiatry and Psychotherapy” department until 1991. There he became known in the professional world through the establishment of the social psychiatric " Hanoverian model " together with Erich Wulff , who headed the newly established department of social psychiatry at the MHH from 1974 to 1994. In 1986 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

In the early 1980s, he was criticized for reports on requests for reparation , as he "mental disorders of Gypsies and Jews who were persecuted as children, often as a disposition-related disorder or the result of a temporary psychophysical exhaustion in the first years of war".

Characteristic of Kisker is a philosophical-anthropological approach, which becomes clear in his frequent references to Edmund Husserl , Martin Heidegger , Wilhelm Dilthey and Karl Jaspers . For him, psychology as a science is part of a comprehensive task that is based on the existential dimension of encounter and understanding of the other. In this sense he writes: “ If one no longer wants to take the language of a schizophrenic person only as a curiosity or symptom, then the task arises to pursue its meaning as a communication, as a call to the other or the other. Another important aspect of his work is the medically justified cultural criticism, which understands psychopathies as “calls” for thought.

Works

  • 1960: The change in experience of the schizophrenic . Springer, Berlin
  • 1964: Psychiatry of the persecuted . Springer, Berlin (together with Walter Ritter von Baeyer and Heinz Häfner )
  • 1969: Psychology - Sociology - Medicine: Series of publications by the Society of Friends of the MHH
  • 1970: Dialogic of Madness
  • 1971: Medicine under criticism: The abyss of a crisis science . Enke, Stuttgart
  • 1975: Medicines under criticism: omnipotence and impotence of a salvation science . Enke, Stuttgart
  • 1976: Through the eyes of a psychiatrist . Enke, Stuttgart
  • Contemporary Psychiatry (Co-Editor)

literature

  • Hinderk Meiners Emrich : In memoriam Karl-Peter Kisker , Nervenarzt 69, 1998, 1023-1024 ( doi: 10.1007 / s001150050379 , last accessed on November 15, 2009)
  • Wielant Machleidt, Torsten Passie, Dieter Bewegungs (eds.): Being a psychiatrist. Karl Peter Kisker - Selection of his writings , Edition das Narrenschiff, Bonn 2007, ISBN 978-3-88414-428-2
  • Christian Pross .
    • Reparation. The guerrilla war against the victims . Athenaeum, Frankfurt am Main 1988, p. 227 ISBN 3-610-08502-9
    • Together with Sonja Schweitzer and Julia Wagner: "We wanted to run into ruin". The history of the socialist patient collective Heidelberg. Psychiatrie Verlag, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3884146729 (summary in English (pdf) )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Pross: reparation. The guerrilla war against the victims . Frankfurt am Main: Athenäum 1988, p. 227. There also criticism of other reports.
  2. ↑ With the eyes of a psychiatrist.
personal data
SURNAME Kisker, Karl Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist and physician
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Mülheim an der Ruhr
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1997
Place of death Hanover