Mechthild Papoušek

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Mechthild Papoušek (born October 1, 1940 in Jena ) is a German specialist in psychiatry and neurology, developmental psychologist and parent-infant therapist. She heads the Institute for Social Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the research and advice center for early development and communication.

life and work

Mechthild Papoušek grew up in Bethel ( Gadderbaum district ). Her father Walter Schulte worked as a psychiatrist for the Von Bodelschwingh Foundation Bethel , and from her childhood she was familiar with dealing with mentally and chronically ill people in her neighborhood.

After completing her specialist training as a psychiatrist, she initially worked for ten years as a medical-therapeutic in psychiatry. She later specialized in infant and toddler research . With her husband, the pediatrician Hanus Papoušek , she researched the early parent-child relationship , in particular communication in the first phase of life, early childhood regulatory disorders and excessive crying in infancy . Her work dealt, among other things, with intuitive parenting and the requirements of parenting education that strengthens intuitive parental skills.

She was appointed to the Children's Center in Munich by Theodor Hellbrügge . There she founded the crying outpatient clinic in the Federal Republic of Germany at the Children's Center in Munich in 1991 , the Munich office hours for baby cribs .

In 2010 she was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit .

Publications (selection)

  • From the first cry to the first word. Beginnings of language development in prelinguistic communication. Huber, Bern 1994, ISBN 3-456-82496-3 .
  • ed. with Alexander von Gontard: Play and creativity in early childhood (= learning to live. Vol. 159). Pfeiffer at Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-608-89717-8 .
  • ed. with Michael Schieche, Harald Wurmser: Regulatory disorders in early childhood. Early risks and help in the developmental context of parent-child relationships. Huber, Bern 2004, ISBN 3-456-84036-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Prof. Dr. Mechthild Papousek. Parent-infant therapist in conversation with Isabella Schmid. (PDF; 48 kB) br-online, April 24, 2003, accessed on March 8, 2011 .
  2. ↑ Regulatory disorders in babies - causes, reasons, needs. Retrieved June 29, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Carolin Keller and Gabriele Koch: "Schreiambulanzen" - early help in the first months and years of life. (No longer available online.) In: Family handbook of the State Institute for Early Childhood Education (IFP). Archived from the original on December 31, 2010 ; Retrieved March 8, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.familienhandbuch.de
  4. ↑ Bavarian Order of Merit. Retrieved March 8, 2011 .
personal data
SURNAME Papoušek, Mechthild
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schulte, Mechthild (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German specialist in psychiatry and neurology, developmental psychologist and parent-infant therapist
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Jena