Klaus Ernst (doctor, 1924)

Klaus Ernst (born June 18, 1924 in Zurich ; † November 3, 2010 ) was a Swiss psychiatrist .

The son of the literary scholar Fritz Ernst began studying biology , but then studied medicine and passed the state examination at the University of Zurich in 1952 . In 1954 he received his doctorate. He worked at the Psychiatric University Clinic in Zurich . In 1959 he became chief physician at the Hohenegg Nerve Sanatorium in Meilen . In 1964 he received his habilitation . From 1968 to 1970 he was medical director of the Neurheinau Clinic . From 1970 to 1989 Ernst was the medical director of the Psychiatric University Clinic in Zurich and a full professor of psychiatry at the University of Zurich.

Fonts (selection)

• Psychopathological effects of the phenothiazine derivative "Largaetil" (= " Megaphen ") in self- experiments and in sick people. In: Archives for Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases . Vol. 192 (1954), no. 6, pp. 573-590, doi: 10.1007 / BF00344703 ( dissertation , University of Zurich, 1954).
• The prognosis of neuroses: forms and outcomes of neurotic disorders and their relationship to the prognosis of endogenous psychoses (120 decade-long catamneses of outpatient clinic cases) (= monographs from the entire field of neurology and psychiatry. H. 85). Springer, Berlin 1959 ( habilitation thesis , University of Zurich, 1959).
• Practical clinical psychiatry for doctors and nursing staff. Springer, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-540-10783-5 .

literature

• Daniel Hell : In memoriam Professor Klaus Ernst. In: Swiss Archive for Neurology and Psychiatry . Vol. 162 (2010), p. 42 ( online ).
• Who's who in Switzerland, including the Principality of Liechtenstein. Nagel, Geneva 1989, p. 160.