Michael Utsch

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Michael Utsch at the conference of the RPP Institute on April 20, 2013

Michael Utsch (* 1960 in Gießen ) is a German psychologist, psychotherapist and religious psychologist .

Utsch studied Protestant theology (preliminary diploma) and psychology (diploma) at the University of Bonn and works as a licensed psychotherapist . Between 1990 and 1996 he worked clinically in the rehabilitation of addicts and in psychosomatic medicine . In 1995 he received his doctorate in psychology with a thesis on the basic characteristics of scientific psychology of religion . In 1997 he became a scientific adviser at the Evangelical Central Office for Weltanschauungsfragen (EZW). He has continued this part-time activity since 2019, and also works as a resident psychotherapist (www.praxis-utsch.de), advanced training lecturer in clinics and psychotherapeutic societies and lecturer at various universities such as the Humboldt University in Berlin. He heads the DGPPN Unit "religion and spirituality" and is on the editorial board of the journals "Spiritual Care" and "Mental Health, Religion and Culture" Since 2013 he is an honorary professor at the pietistic dominated Protestant University Tabor in Marburg .

Works (selection)

  • Martina Kessler , Werner Schäfer, Michael Utsch (eds.): Accompanying people: individually - holistically - spiritually . LIT Verlag, 2018, ISBN 978-3-643-14139-2 .
  • Religiously sensitive psychotherapy and psychiatry. Basic knowledge and practical experience (Ed. With Norbert Mönter and Andreas Heinz). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2020.
  • Religious and spiritual search for meaning in psychotherapy. Georg Milzner and Michael Utsch in conversation with Uwe Britten. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2019
  • Case book Spirituality in Psychotherapy and Psychiatry (Ed. With Eckhard Frick, Isgard Ohls, Gabriele Stotz-Ingenlath). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2018.
  • Michael Utsch, Raphael Bonelli , Samuel Pfeifer : Psychotherapy and Spirituality - Dealing professionally with existential conflicts and questions of transcendence. Springer-Verlag Berlin. 2nd edition 2018
  • Religious questions in psychotherapy. Psychological approaches to religiosity and spirituality. 2005, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer.
  • Pathological religiosity. 2012. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer
  • Psychology of religion: requirements, fundamentals, research overview. 1998, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Profile of the EZW, accessed on October 9, 2014
  2. ↑ Profile ( Memento of the original from October 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. the Ev. University of Tabor, accessed October 9, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.eh-tabor.de

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personal data
SURNAME Utsch, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian, psychotherapist and religious psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH to water