Klaus Weise (psychiatrist)

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Klaus Weise (born March 1, 1929 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † May 14, 2019 in Zwenkau near Leipzig ) was a German psychiatrist and university professor .

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Klaus Weise was born in 1929 in Freiburg im Breisgau as the son of Siegfried and Ruth Weise (née Gaudig), both general practitioners. After the early death of his father, he came to Leipzig with his mother and sister, where he graduated from high school in 1947 and studied medicine until 1953 . In the same year he received his doctorate . After the compulsory assistant and residency at the Neurological-Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Leipzig under Dietfried Müller-Hegemann , he worked for one year as a senior physician at the Rodewisch Specialist Hospital for Psychiatry and Neurology in 1957 . He then returned to Leipzig, where he completed his habilitation in 1969 . Due to his humanistic training and basic attitude, he often came into conflict with state doctrine, but nevertheless remained a member of the SED.

From 1974 until his retirement in 1995 he was full professor for psychiatry and since 1973 director of the psychiatric clinic and polyclinic of the University of Leipzig, which only became independent in 1968 . Klaus Weise was considered a reformer of psychiatry in the GDR and was particularly committed to humane psychiatry, patient rights, the opening of psychiatric institutions , open wards, flat hierarchies and the development of social psychiatry . Psychotherapeutically he was connected to the talk therapy according to Rogers. After German reunification, however, because of his party membership, he could not be appointed under national law.

After 1989, Weise became involved with the Leipzig Psychiatry Affected Initiative Durchblick eV and the Saxon Society for Social Psychiatry (SGSP).

Selected publications

  • Investigations into the transport of substances in the vascular vertebrate heart. (1953) PhD thesis
  • The limits and possibilities of psychopathology presented using the example of schizophrenic and schizophrenia-like diseases. (1969) Habilitation thesis.
  • Leipzig Psychiatry Reform 1960 to 1990 (in: SYMPTOM. Leipzig Contributions to Psychiatry & Madness. Ed. Thomas R. Müller / Dyrk Zedlick for Durchblick eV and Saxon Society for Social Psychiatry [SGSP]. No. 6/2014)

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personal data
SURNAME Way, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 2019
Place of death Zwenkau