Matthias Claus Angermeyer

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Matthias Claus Angermeyer (born August 14, 1941 in Nuremberg ) is a German medic .

Matthias Claus Angermeyer, German psychiatrist (born 1941). Portrait photo from 2016
In this former building of the Velhagen & Klasing publishing house at Johannisallee 20, the day clinic and the research department were located from 1996, and from 2004 also the outpatient clinic of the clinic and polyclinic for psychiatry at Leipzig University.

Life

Matthias Claus Angermeyer was born on August 14, 1941 in Nuremberg. From 1960 he studied medicine and sociology at the universities of Würzburg , Düsseldorf , Bern , Caen and Frankfurt a. M. 1967 he received his doctorate in medicine. During his time as a medical assistant, he worked for one year at the Mission Chirurgical de la Republique d'Allemagne en Algérie in Annaba (Algeria).

In 1970 he worked as an assistant doctor for neurology at a Frankfurt hospital. He began training as a psychiatrist in 1971 at Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu and continued it a year later at the Psychiatric Clinic of the Hannover Medical School with Karl Peter Kisker . In 1978 he moved to the Institute for Epidemiology and Social Medicine at the same university , which was headed by Manfred Pflanz and after his death in 1980 was temporarily passed on by the medical sociologist Johann Jürgen Rohde . 1981 Angermeyer qualified as a professor in psychiatry and psychiatric sociology on interaction styles in families with schizophrenic patients . Also in 1981 he completed his training as a psychoanalyst at the Psychotherapeutic Institute in Hanover. In 1982 he moved to Columbia University in New York to the social epidemiologist Bruce Dohrenwend. After his return from the USA in 1984 he became a professor at the Psychiatric University Clinic Hamburg-Eppendorf . In 1987 he took over the management of the Department of Psychiatric Sociology at the Central Institute for Mental Health in Mannheim.

After a 3-month visiting professorship at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in 1995, he was appointed to the chair of psychiatry at the University of Leipzig in the same year and headed the Psychiatric University Clinic until 2006. After his retirement, Angermeyer relocated Austria and founded a Center for Public Mental Health there in 2007. From 2009 to 2018 he was visiting professor at the University of Cagliari in Italy.

Act

Under Angermeyer's direction, the Leipzig clinic developed into an internationally recognized center for social science research in psychiatry, which was the leader in terms of publication activity in the German-speaking area. Psychiatrists , psychologists , sociologists , economists , cultural scientists and historians worked together on this across disciplines . In order to further sharpen this profile, he advocated the establishment of a professorship for public health and a professorship for health economics , which could be filled in 1999 and 2004. Such professorships attached to a psychiatric clinic only existed in Leipzig at that time.

In 1996, under the influence of the rich history of Leipzig university psychiatry (e.g. the world's first professorship for psychiatry was established for Johann Christian August Heinroth in Leipzig in 1811 ), Angermeyer also initiated the establishment of an archive for the history of Leipzig psychiatry in 1996.

In the clinic, Angermeyer was able to build on the social-psychiatric tradition established by his predecessor Klaus Weise . He ensured the continuation of the sectorization of psychiatric care introduced by him, i. H. according to which every facility undertakes to provide full psychiatric care for the population of a defined region, in the city of Leipzig. He set new accents through the reorientation of the day clinic , which now increasingly took the place of full inpatient treatment and did not function as an aftercare facility as it used to be . Angermeyer also expanded the outpatient area and established various special outpatient departments . It was important to him that the complete psychotherapeutic training for the specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy was offered in-house. At his initiative, the clinic became a member of the Network of Health Promoting Hospitals established by the WHO Regional Office for Europe in 1998 , and in 2002 it was accepted into the WHO Task Force of Health Promoting Mental Health Services.

Through his education and career, Angermeyer combines medicine or psychiatry and social sciences . His scientific focus is on psychiatric epidemiology and psychiatric attitude research . He was the first to observe that the institutional careers (i.e. the use of psychiatric facilities) for women with schizophrenia were more favorable than that of men, and thus initiated a brisk research into the gender differences in schizophrenia. In 1996 he initiated a population-based cohort study on the incidence , prevalence and course of dementia and depressive illnesses in old age (LEILA 75+), which served as a model for later epidemiological studies on gerontopsychiatric issues. Angermeyer was also involved in international epidemiological projects, such as the European Schizophrenia Cohort (EuroSC) Study, the European Study of the Epidemiology of Mental Disorders (ESEMeD MHEDEA 2000) and the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) Survey Initiative.

While still in Mannheim, Angermeyer laid the foundation stone for a »Leipzig School of Stigma Research«, which was later understood as a separate school. With surveys of the German population in 1990 and 2001, he carried out the world's first vignette-based trend study on the population's attitudes towards mental illness. This study showed that while there was a greater dissemination of biological ideas and greater acceptance of psychiatric treatment offers within the period investigated, this was not accompanied by a more positive attitude towards the mentally ill. A third population survey followed in 2011, and a fourth is in preparation for 2020. Such a long-term study offers the opportunity to study in detail the development of the social representations of mental illness over a period of 30 years. By means of a series of population surveys at the beginning of the 1990s, Angermeyer was able to empirically prove the influence of reporting on violent acts of mentally ill people on the attitudes of the population. Using surveys in other countries (France, Italy, Russia, Slovakia, Tunisia, Mongolia), he examined transcultural variations in belief systems and attitudes towards mental illness.

Angermeyer was also practically committed to destigmatizing the mentally ill and in 2000 founded the association “Irrsinnig Menschlich”, which is committed to this day for greater openness to the topic of mental health.

Even after his retirement, Angermeyer remained scientifically active (see his teaching and research activities as a visiting professor in Italy). Angermeyer is one of the world's most cited scientists in the field of psychiatry and psychology.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Claus Angermeyer in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig, accessed on April 14, 2019
  2. ↑ Steinberg, Holger. Pictures on the history of Leipzig University Psychiatry . 2nd expanded edition. Archive for the history of psychiatry in Leipzig at the Clinic and Polyclinic for Psychiatry, University of Leipzig 2006
  3. ↑ Steinberg, Holger; Angermeyer, Matthias C (Ed.). 200 Years of Psychiatry at the University of Leipzig: People and Concepts . Heidelberg: Springer 2005
  4. ↑ Holzinger, Anita; Matschinger, Herbert; Angermeyer, Matthias C. Public Mental Health Research in the German-Speaking Area. An analysis of scientific journals. Psychiatrische Praxis , Volume 31, 2004, pp. 369-377
  5. ^ University of Leipzig. Department of Psychiatry. Biannual Report 2002/2003. Leipzig 2004
  6. ^ University of Leipzig. Department of Psychiatry. Biannual Report 2004/2005. Leipzig 2006
  7. ^ Archive for Leipzig Psychiatry History. Homepage: https://www.uniklinikum-leipzig.de/einrichtungen/psychiatrie-psychotherapie/Seiten/psychiatriegeschichte . aspx
  8. ^ German network of health promoting hospitals. Homepage: https://dngfk.de/
  9. ^ Angermeyer MC. The development of the clinic and polyclinic for psychiatry since 1995. In: Matthias C. Angermeyer, Holger Steinberg (editor). 200 Years of Psychiatry at the University of Leipzig: People and Concepts . Heidelberg, Springer, 2005, pp. 277-288; WHO Taskforce in particular on p. 286
  10. ^ Angermeyer, Mathias C; Hofmann J; Robra BP. Gender differences in the institutional career of schizophrenics - a contribution to the social epidemiology of mental illness. Psychiatrische Praxis Volume 9, 1982, pp. 27-33
  11. ^ Angermeyer MC, Goldstein JM, Kühn L. Gender differences in schizophrenia: Rehospitalization and community survival. Psychological Medicine Volume 19, 1989, pp. 365-382.
  12. ↑ Luppa M, Sikorski C, Luck T, Weyerer S, Villringer A, König HH, Riedel-Heller SG. Prevalence and risk factors of depressive symptoms in latest life - results of the Leipzig Longitudinal Study of the Aged (LEILA 75+) . International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry Volume 37, 2012, pp. 286-295
  13. ^ Riedel-Heller SG, Busse A, Aurich C, Matschinger H, Angermeyer MC. The incidence of dementia according to DSM-III-R and ICD-10 - Results of the Leipzig Longitudinal Study of the Aged (LEILA 75+) . Part 1 & 2. British Journal of Psychiatry Volume 179, 2001, pp. 250-254 and 255-260
  14. ↑ Bebbington, Paul E; Angermeyer, Matthias; Azorin Traolach Brugha, Jean-Michel; Kilian, Reinhold; Johnson, Sonia; Toumi, Mondher; Kornfeld, Åsa; EuroSC Research Group. The European Schizophrenia Cohort. A naturalistic prognostic and economic study . Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology Volume 40, 2005, pp. 707-717
  15. ↑ several articles in PubMed , u. a. Alonso J, Angermeyer MC, Lépine JP. The European Study of the Epidemiology of Mental Disorders (ESEMeD) project: an epidemiological basis for informing mental health policies in Europe . Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica Volume 109, 2004, Suppl. 420, pp. 5-7.
  16. ↑ several articles in PubMed, u. a. Kessler RC, Angermeyer MC, Anthony JC, de Graaf R, Demyttenaere K, Gasquet I, de Girolamo G, Gluzman S, Gureje O, Haro JM, Kawakami N, Karam A, Levinson D, Medina Mora ME, Oakley Browney MA, Posada -Villa J, Stein DJ, Tsang CHA, Aguilar-Gaxiola S, Alonso J, Lee S, Heeringa S, Pennell PE, Berglund PA, Gruber M, Petukhova M, Chatterji S, Üstün TB. Lifetime prevalence and age-of-onset distributions of mental disorders in the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) Surveys . World Psychiatry Volume 6, 2007, pp. 168-176
  17. ↑ Link BG, Stuart H. On revisiting some origins of the stigma concept as it applies to mental illness. In: Gaebel W, Rössler W, Sartorius N (Eds) The stigma of mental illness - End of the story? . Springer, Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London 2017, pp. 3–28, here p. 12
  18. ↑ Link BG, Stuart H. On revisiting some origins of the stigma concept as it applies to mental illness. In: Gaebel W, Rössler W, Sartorius N (Eds) The stigma of mental illness - End of the story? . Springer, Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London 2017, pp. 3–28, here pp. 12–13
  19. ^ Angermeyer MC, Matschinger H. Causal beliefs and attitudes to people with schizophrenia. A trend analysis based on data from two population surveys in Germany . British Journal of Psychiatry Volume 186, 2005, pp. 331-334
  20. ↑ Angermeyer MC, Matschinger H. Have there been any changes in the public's attitudes towards psychiatric treatment? Results from representative population surveys in Germany in the years 1990 and 2001 . Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica Volume 111, 2005, pp. 68-73
  21. ↑ Angermeyer MC, Matschinger H, Schomerus G. Attitudes towards psychiatric treatment and people with mental illness: Changes over two decades . British Journal of Psychiatry Volume 203, 2013, pp. 146-151
  22. ↑ Angermeyer MC, Matschinger H. The effect of violent attacks by schizophrenic persons on the attitude of the public towards the mentally ill . Social science & medicine Volume 43, 1996, pp. 1721-1728
  23. ↑ Angermeyer MC, Carta MG, Matschinger H, Millier A, Refaï T, Schomerus G, Toumi M. Cultural differences in stigma surrounding schizophrenia: Comparison between Central Europe and North Africa . British Journal of Psychiatry Volume 208, 2016, pp. 389-397
  24. ↑ Irrsinnig Menschlich eV - Association for mental health. Homepage: https://www.irrsinnig-menschlich.de
  25. ↑ The world's most influential scientific minds 2014
  26. ↑ Highly Cited Researchers by Thompson Reuters 2016
  27. ↑ Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate Analytics 2017
  28. ↑ Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate Analytics 2018
  29. ↑ Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate Analytics 2019
personal data
SURNAME Angermeyer, Matthias Claus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg