Markus Gastpar

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Markus Gastpar (born June 17, 1941 in Rheinfelden , Switzerland ) is a Swiss psychiatrist and former professor of psychiatry at the University of Duisburg-Essen .

Life

Markus Gastpar graduated from the humanistic grammar school in Basel in 1961 . 1961 He graduated from medicine at the University of Basel , where he made his 1967 examination . After that he was first assistant at the Anatomical Institute of the University of Basel. In 1968 he became an assistant doctor at the Psychiatric University Clinic in Basel. In 1970 he received his doctorate with the thesis Doctor and Medicine under Plato . Between 1971 and 1974 Gastpar set up the drug counseling center for young people in Basel. In 1974 he went to the State University of New York for a research stay . In 1975 he became senior physician and head of depression research at the Psychiatric University Clinic in Basel.

At the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Gastpar was a consultant for studies in biological psychiatry from 1976 to 1986 ("temporary advisor of collobarative studies on biological psychiatry"). In 1980 he received the license to teach psychiatry at the University of Basel. From 1981 he was the head physician at the Psychiatric University Clinic in Basel .

From 1987 to 2006 Gastpar was the director of the clinic for psychiatry and psychotherapy at the Rheinische Landes- und Hochschulklinik Essen of the Landschaftsverband Rheinland (later renamed LVR-Klinikum Essen ). At the same time he was full professor of psychiatry at the medical faculty of the comprehensive university in Essen , after the merger of the University of Duisburg-Essen . He represented the introduction of methadone for the substitution therapy of opioid addicts in Germany at an early stage and was the scientific director of the psychiatric section in the first methadone test project in Germany, which began in 1988.

Markus Gastpar was among other things chairman of the Working Group for Neuropsychopharmacology and Pharmacopsychiatry (AGNP) from 1991 to 1995, President of the German Society for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Neurology (DGPPN) from 1997 to 1999 and chairman of the AWMF's “ Guidelines for Substance-Related Disorders” committee . He supported the use of St. John's wort extract in the treatment of depression .

After his retirement in 2006, Markus Gastpar became head physician at the Fliedner Clinic in Berlin. He was involved in the further development of the outpatient clinic and day clinic for psychological medicine at Gendarmenmarkt , where he remained a freelancer even after his retirement in 2013.

Publications (selection)

As editor:

  • with Paul Kielholz : Problems of psychiatry in general practice: neurasthenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, advances in treatment of depression, teaching and training of the GP . Seattle: Hogrefe & Huber Publishers, 1993
  • Antidepressants - properties, indications and practical use . Stuttgart, New York: Thieme, 1999.
  • with Karl Mann and Hans Rommelspacher: Textbook of addiction diseases . Stuttgart, New York: Thieme, 1999.
  • with Siegfried Kasper and Michael Linden : Psychiatry and Psychotherapy . 2nd Edition. Vienna, New York: Springer, 2003.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholar Calendar . 16th edition (1992). Vol. 1, p. 970.
  2. ↑ a b Curriculum Vitae . Fliedner Clinic Berlin, quoted on yumpu.com. Retrieved July 19, 2019
  3. ↑ a b In the Retirement (press release). University of Duisburg-Essen from September 13, 2006, accessed on July 19, 2019
  4. ^ Glossary: ​​Substitution therapy for drug addiction . Springer Verlag, 1998, page 27.
  5. ↑ http://www.psychiatriekonsil.de/de/markus_gastpar.htm
  6. ↑ St. John's wort proves itself again in clinical studies . Doctors newspaper, October 11, 2005. Retrieved July 19, 2019
  7. ↑ Long-term therapy : Hypericum extract once a day is equal to sertraline , September 28, 2005. Committee for Natural Medicine Research, accessed on July 19, 2019 (PDF file)
  8. ^ Farewell to Prof. Dr. Markus Gastpar (press release). Fliedner Clinic Berlin from July 2, 2013, accessed on July 19, 2019 (PDF file)
  9. ↑ Freelance workers . Fliedner Clinic Berlin, accessed on July 19, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Gastpar, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Rheinfelden