Klaus Ottomeyer

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Klaus Ottomeyer (* 1949 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German psychologist , psychoanalyst , traumatologist, ethno-psychoanalyst and retired professor at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt .

Career

Ottomeyer studied sociology, psychology and ethnology in Frankfurt am Main, Freiburg im Breisgau and Bremen. He did his doctorate in Bremen. He then worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Sociology and Ethnology at Heidelberg University.

From 1975 to 1981 Ottomeyer was assistant professor at the Psychological Institute of the Free University of Berlin, specializing in social psychology and comparative social theory.

Activities and awards

From 1983 until his retirement in 2013 he was a full professor for social psychology at the University of Klagenfurt with a focus on work with foreign and domestic victims of violence and the psychology of right-wing extremism .

He has additional training in ethno-psychoanalysis and psychotraumatology and is a licensed psychological psychotherapist. Ottomeyer is chairman of the board of the ASPIS association , which in 2011 received a Bruno Kreisky Prize for services to human rights .

Klaus Ottomayer has been on the advisory board of Instahelp.me - a portal that offers online psychotherapy - since 2015.

Fonts (selection)

  • Economic constraints and human relationships. Social behavior in capitalism. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1977.
  • with B. Preitler and H. Spitzer (eds.): Look I am a Foreigner. Intercultural encounters and psychosocial practice on five continents. Drava Verlag, Klagenfurt 2010.
  • Jörg Haider - Myth and Legacy. Haymon, Innsbruck 2010. (extended TB edition of "Jörg Haider - Myths and Inheritance")
  • Treatment of the victims. About how we deal with the trauma of the refugees and the persecuted. Klett-Cotta, Munich 2011.
  • Racism. In: A. Pelinka (Ed.): Prejudices. Origins, forms, meanings. Sir Peter Ustinov Institute for Researching and Combating Prejudice . de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2012, pp. 169–204.
  • What exactly is identity? - About the meaning and misuse of a term. In: Thomas Heise, Solmaz Golsabahi (ed.): Integration, Identity, Society. (5th Congress of the DTPPP). VWB, Berlin 2012.
  • with A. Lampe and P. Abilgaard (eds.): Seeing with both eyes: Suffering and resources in psychotherapy. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2013.
  • Systematic chaos. Chattering values ​​and value conflicts in capitalism. Drava Verlag, Klagenfurt 2013.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Farewell lecture by Klaus Ottomeyer. ( Memento from September 27, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) at: sozpsy.aau.at
  2. ↑ Bruno Kreisky Prize for services to human rights a. a. to the Research and Advisory Center Aspis at the Alpen-Adria-Universität ( Memento from May 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Instahelp.me - About us. Retrieved June 13, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Ottomeyer, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social psychologist, ethno-psychoanalyst and psychotraumatologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main