Lothar Sandfort

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Lothar Sandfort (* 1951 ) is a German psychologist .

Lothar Sandfort is head of the Institute for Self-Determination of the Disabled (ISBB), an internationally recognized sex counseling organization based in Trebel in Lower Saxony . The ISBB has its roots in the German disability movement of the 1980s.

Lothar Sandfort has been paraplegic since a traffic accident in 1971 . Since 1974 he has been involved in various political initiatives by people with disabilities, including the movement organ "air pump" he founded (since 1978), later called "die randschau". He has written various books on the subject of “Disability and Sexuality”.

The networking of the activities of the disability movement with the party The Greens was largely pursued by him. As a research assistant, he was a disability officer for the Greens parliamentary group (1986 to 1991), but left the party because of its increasing distance from social movements.

Lothar Sandfort studied psychology in Cologne . As head of the ISBB, he has established a current concept of sexual therapeutic aids via surrogate partnership and sexual accompaniment. He also works as a psychological psychotherapist with disabled people in Berlin.

Lothar Sandfort is married and has three children.

Publications

  • Esmeralda - I don't love you anymore. Disabled people emancipate themselves , 1995, Verlag Haag + Herchen ISBN 978-3892288213
  • Crutches, Babies and Barriers: On the Situation of Disabled Parents in the Federal Republic , 1998, Publisher: Bildungs- u. Research institute for the self-determined life of the disabled, co-authors: Gisela Hermes, Susanne Lambeck, ISBN 978-3932951046
  • Up close: New ways of sexuality for disabled people , 2002, new edition 2006, AG SPAK Verlag, ISBN 978-3930830305
  • Right to lovesickness (2010 as an e-book on xinxii.de)
  • "Provided" to the point of immaturity. A documentation on the disabled movement and on the general disabled association in Germany
Co-authors: Ilja Seifert , Waltraud Jähnichen, ISBN 978-3928556019

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personal data
SURNAME Sandfort, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1951