Meinrad Perrez

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Meinrad Perrez (2012)

Meinrad Perrez (also: Meinrad Paul Perrez ) (born March 24, 1944 in Dagmersellen ; resident in Dagmersellen) is a Swiss psychologist . He is Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Friborg and researchers in the fields of clinical psychology, especially the stress - and genealogy .

biography

Meinrad Perrez graduated from high school in Switzerland and studied psychology , philosophy and education in Paris (until 1965), Innsbruck (until 1968) and Salzburg from 1964 to 1971 . In 1971 he obtained the academic degree of Dr. phil. ( On the problem of the scientific status of psychoanalytic theory ).

From 1971 to 1973 he worked as an assistant at the Psychological Institute of the University of Salzburg. In 1973 he accepted a position as professor of psychology (AH5) at the Free University of Berlin . In 1975 he switched to a professorship for educational sciences at the University of Friborg. After the rejection of an appointment to the chair for clinical psychologist at the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of Salzburg in 1981, he accepted the appointment to a full professorship for clinical psychology at the University of Friborg, where he held a leading position until his retirement in autumn 2011 worked in this field and built up this subject in Friborg.

Meinrad Perrez is married with two children.

Scientific functions

From 2004 to 2010 Perrez was President of Department I (Humanities and Social Sciences) and from 2008 to 2010 Vice President of the National Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation .

Perrez was Vice President of the German Society for Psychology (1996–1998) and President of the Swiss Society for Psychology (1987–1989). He is co-founder of the European Society on Family Relations (ESFR) and was co-editor of various international journals as well as visiting professor at numerous universities in Germany and abroad.

In 1982/83 he was dean of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Friborg and served five terms as director and president of the Department of Psychology.

In 1993 he was one of the founders of the inter-faculty institute for family research and counseling at the University of Friborg and was its first director from 1993 to 1999. The establishment of the Center for Test Development and Diagnostics , which carries out the aptitude test for medical studies in Switzerland and, among other things, goes back to his initiative . a. has been active for many years in the field of computer-aided diagnostics through the development and publication of the Hogrefe TestSystem .

Meinrad Perrez has been an honorary member of the Swiss Society for Health Psychology (SGGPsy) and the Swiss Society for Psychology (SGP) since 2013.

A good number of professors emerged from his students who have been appointed to universities in Germany and abroad. As a scientist and in his offices, he was particularly committed to promoting international cooperation between science across national and ideological borders. His involvement in Russia (including as a scientific advisor to the Bechterew Institute in St. Petersburg) and in China should be emphasized here. In the following quote, the attitude is expressed in a focused manner:

Since its foundation in the Middle Ages, the university has been an ideal academic republic without geographical borders. Your limits should be the limits of reason; and your admission pass are academic diplomas and, for the teachers, scientific and didactic skills.

Research and Teaching

In the 1970s he was a pioneer of parenting behavior training in the German-speaking area (Perrez, Minsel & Wimmer). In recent years he has also dealt with this on the basis of new media (Hänggi & Perrez). Perrez and his team have been working primarily in the field of stress research since the 1980s ( outpatient assessment using a personal digital assistant to assess the individual and interpersonal experience of stress in everyday situations). Family stress and the interpersonal regulation of emotions in the family and in couples were among other things. a. as part of the European project FamWork with the help of computer-aided assessment in the natural environment and a. analyzed across cultures.

Together with Urs Baumann from Salzburg, he is the editor of the textbook " Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy ", which - updated each time - has been in existence for 20 years and was published in 2011 in its 4th edition. It has been translated into several other languages ​​and is the basis of education at numerous universities.

He gained early notoriety through the book "Is Psychoanalysis a Science ?", Which was written in 1972 and which, beyond a simple criticism, attempts to provide an epistemological proof that the psychoanalysis of the 1970s, although the scientific goals of describing and explaining psychological Follows facts, but the investigation logic and methodology for the verification of hypotheses do not yet sufficiently meet the scientific criteria.

Literature (selection)

  • M. Perrez: Does the psychoanalytic theory need its own scientific criteria? In: PSYCHE. Journal of Psychoanalysis and Its Applications. 11, 1969, pp. 842-849.
  • M. Perrez: Is psychoanalysis a science ? Hans Huber, Bern 1972. (1979 revised and expanded 2nd edition; Italian translation: La Psicoanalisi: Una scienza? Collana di Studi Freudiani. Editrice Città Nuova, Rome 1977)
  • M. Perrez, B. Minsel, H. Wimmer: Parent behavior training - theoretical introduction and practical exercises. Otto Müller, 1974. ( What parents should know. Revised and expanded edition. Salzburg 1985; French translation: Ce que les parents devraient savoir. Editions Labor, Bruxelles 1990)
  • H. Lukesch , M. Perrez, KA Schneewind (Ed.): Familial socialization and intervention. Huber, Bern 1980, ISBN 3-456-80857-7 .
  • M. Perrez, M. Reicherts: Stress, Coping and Health. A situation-behavior approach. Theory, Methods, Applications. Hogrefe & Huber Publishers, Toronto 1992.
  • G. Bodenmann, M. Perrez, JM Gottman : The importance of intrapsychic coping for dyadic interaction under stress. In: Journal of Clinical Psychology. 25, 1, 1996, pp. 1-13.
  • G. Yue, M. Perrez, X. Han: Psychology at Chinese universities and in Chinese society - With special reference to clinical psychology. In: Swiss Journal of Psychology. 57, 3, 1998, pp. 178-187.
  • M. Perrez, D. Schöbi, P. Wilhelm: How to Assess Social Regulation of Stress and Emotions in Daily Family Life? A computer-assisted family self-monitoring system (FASEM-C). In: Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy. 7, 2000, pp. 326-339.
  • K.-D. Hänsgen , M. Perrez: Computer-aided diagnostics in the family and upbringing: Approaches and perspectives. In: Psychology in Education and Teaching. 48, 3, 2001, pp. 161-178.
  • Wilhelm, P. & Perrez, M. (2004). How is my partner feeling in different daily-life settings? Accuracy of spouses' judgments about their partner's feelings at work and at home. In: Social Indicators Research 67, 1-2, pp. 183-246.
  • D. Schoebi, Z. Wang, V. Ababkov, M. Perrez: Affective interdependence in married couples' daily lives: are there cultural differences in partner effects of anger? In: Family Science. 1 (2), 2010, pp. 83-92.
  • M. Perrez, U. Baumann (ed.): Textbook Clinical Psychology Psychotherapy. 4th, completely revised Edition. Hans Huber, Bern 2011.
  • A. Debrot, WL Cook, M. Perrez, AB Horn: Deeds matter: Daily enacted responsiveness and intimacy in couples' daily lives. In: Journal of Family Psychology. 26, 2012, pp. 617-627. doi: 10.1037 / a0028666 .
  • P. Wilhelm, K. Pawlik , M. Perrez: Conducting research in daily life: A Historical Review. In: MR Mehl, TS Conner (Ed.): Handbook of research methods for studying daily life. Guilford Press, New York, NY 2012.
  • Perrez, M. & Schoebi, D. (2015). The outpatient assessment (AA) in the individual case analysis. In: M. Reicherts & PA Genoud (Ed.): Individual case analyzes in psychosocial research and practice (pp. 85–111). Weitramsdorf: ZKS-Verlag. On-line
  • Krampen, G. & Perrez M. (2015). Publication focus of clinical psychology and psychotherapy research in the German versus Anglo-American area. A scientometric inventory for 1980–2014. In: Journal for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 44 (3), pp. 181–196.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Newsletter 2014-1 of SGGPsy ( Memento from February 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Bulletin of the Swiss Society for Psychology. SGP, 1, 2014, p. 8.
  3. ↑ Neue Zürcher Zeitung. October 28, 2010, p. 22.
  4. ↑ Famwork: Family life and Professional Work: Conflict and Synergy
  5. ↑ M. Perrez: Is psychoanalysis a science. 2nd Edition. 1979, ISBN 3-456-80760-0 .
  6. ↑ Paul Gragl: Can Freud's theory be empirically verified? Thesis. Karl Franzens University, Graz 2006.
personal data
SURNAME Perrez, Meinrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Perrez, Meinrad Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Dagmersellen