Michael Ermann

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Michael Ermann on October 29, 2005 in his hometown Szczecin

Michael Ermann (born October 29, 1943 in Stettin , Pomerania ) is a German specialist in psychotherapeutic medicine and psychoanalyst in Berlin and a university professor emeritus. From 1985 to 2009 he headed the Department of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics at the Psychiatric Clinic of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . He has written books on clinical theory, treatment technique, and the history of concepts in psychoanalysis.

Life

As a displaced person, he came to West Germany in 1946, where he graduated from high school in Hamburg in 1963 after moving several times . First he studied art history and philosophy in Würzburg and then switched to medicine with studies in Vienna , Hamburg and Freiburg . There he did his doctorate in forensic medicine under Wolfgang Spann . Alexander Mitscherlich recommended him a psychoanalytic training. He completed this from 1971 to 1976 with Friedrich Beese in Stuttgart , where he worked as a research assistant for the social analyst Helmut Enke . There he conducted studies on the effect of inpatient psychotherapy ( catamneses ) and on somatoform disorders , his later habilitation topic. As the senior physician in charge of the psychosomatic clinic at the Central Institute for Mental Health in Mannheim, he developed concepts for psychoanalytically oriented treatment of somatoform and personality disorders . In 1979 he completed his habilitation in psychosomatic medicine and psychoanalysis at the University of Heidelberg . In 1985 he was appointed to succeed Siegfried Elhardt at the University of Munich, where he taught psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy until his retirement in 2009 .

From 1985 to 2013 he was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Lindau Psychotherapy Weeks .

He has lived in Berlin since 2017.

meaning

Ermann became known as a lecturer and through his essays and books. It is primarily based on Michael Balint and Donald Winnicott and most recently on the paradigm of intersubjectivity . He emphasizes the importance of the psychotherapeutic relationship and the new experience for treatment. His main interest is psychoanalytic treatment theory. His empirical research includes topics of psychosomatics, coping strategies for HIV infection, psychophysiological studies of dreams and, most recently, coping with hardship as a war child in World War II.

From 1987 to 1995, during a period of upheaval, he was the chairman of the German Psychoanalytic Society , preparing for its re-entry into the International Psychoanalytic Association . Together with Jürgen Körner and Sven Olaf Hoffmann , he founded the magazine Forum der Psychoanalyse in 1985 as a bridge between the specialist societies. 1983-2016 he was also a member of the Executive Committee of the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies (IFPS) , where he a. a. headed the archives commission and built the section for individual members.

Honors

  • 2008: Schwidder Award from the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies
  • 2010: Research Fellow, Konan Institute of Human Sciences, Japan
  • 2012: Honorary member of the German Psychoanalytic Society
  • 2017: Honorary member of the Academy for Psychoanalysis Munich

Fonts

  • The personality in psycho-vegetative disorders. Clinical and empirical results . Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York 1987, ISBN 978-3-642-72574-6 .
  • Entanglement and insight. Thinking about psychoanalysis in Germany . Edition diskord, Tübingen 1996, ISBN 978-3-89295-613-6 .
  • We war children . In: Forum of Psychoanalysis . No. 2 , 2004, p. 226-239 .
  • Heart and soul. Psychosomatics using the example of the heart . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 978-3-17-018652-1 .
  • Psychoanalysis in the Post Freud Years. Developments 1940–1975 . 2nd Edition. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-17-022190-1 .
  • Psychoanalysis today. Developments since 1975 and current balance sheet . 2nd Edition. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-17-022622-7 .
  • Anxiety and anxiety disorders. Psychoanalytic Concepts . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-17-022186-4 .
  • Dreams and dreams . 2nd Edition. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-17-023266-2 .
  • Freud and psychoanalysis. Discoveries, developments, perspectives . 2nd Edition. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-17-025709-2 .
  • Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. A textbook on a psychoanalytic basis . 6th edition. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-17-021570-2 .
  • The other in psychoanalysis. The intersubjective turn . 2nd Edition. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-17-030244-0 .
  • Michael Ermann (ed.): The helpful relationship in psychoanalysis . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1993, ISBN 978-3-525-45753-5 .
  • with Renate Feidel, Bruno Waldvogel: Successful treatment in psychotherapy. Recent outcome studies and their goodness . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, Berlin, Cologne 2001, ISBN 978-3-17-017103-9 .

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