Peter Gottwald (psychiatrist)

Peter Gottwald (born November 3, 1935 in Shanghai ) is a German psychiatrist and psychologist who held the chair of psychology with a focus on psychotherapy at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg until his retirement .

Life

Peter Gottwald studied medicine and received his doctorate in Kiel in 1962 . In 1965 a study visit to Boston followed ; then he worked from 1966 to 1976 as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich . In 1972 a further doctorate followed to become Dr. rer. soz. in the subject of psychology at the University of Konstanz .

In 1977 he was appointed to Oldenburg, where he worked in the health and clinical psychology unit. Another of his interests is the realization of the so-called integral consciousness by Jean Gebser ; for this he is involved in the Jean Gebser Society.

Works (selection)

Books

• 1971 Cybernetic analysis of learning processes. Integration of learning psychological and ethological ideas about reinforcement. Oldenbourg, Munich (with Hermann Heyse in the same year also translated from English by: Victor Meyer and Edward S. Chesser: Behavioral Therapy in Clinical Psychiatry. Thieme, Stuttgart)
• 1972 with Wiltraud Redlin: behavioral therapy for mentally handicapped children. Hogrefe, Göttingen ³1975
• 1974 with Manfred Cramer (Hrsg.): Behavior therapy in discussion. Health policy and basic theoretical points of view. (Special issue of the "Mitteilungen der GVT eV") German Society for Behavioral Therapy, Tübingen
• 1974 with Detlev Ploog : Behavioral research: instinct, learning, brain function. Urban and Schwarzenberg, Munich (U & S-Tb 1005) ISBN 3-541-06421-8
• 1976 with Christoph Kraiker (Ed.): On the relationship between theory and practice in psychology. (Special issue I / 1976 of "Mitteilungen der GVT eV") German Society for Behavioral Therapy, Tübingen
• 1976 with Manfred Cramer and Heinrich Keupp (eds.): Behavior modification in school. The school as a field of experimental social innovation (special issue III / 1976 of the "Mitteilungen der DGVT eV") German Society for Behavioral Therapy, Tübingen
• 1989 In the pre-school of a free psychology. Research report by a university professor and student. Holzberg, Oldenburg (series of publications by the University of Oldenburg) ²1993 ISBN 3-87358-344-5
• 1989 with Gottfried Mergner (ed.): Dear mother - bad mother. Scary pictures of the mother in books for children and young people. Library and information system of the University of Oldenburg, ibid. ISBN 3-8142-0324-0 ²1991
• 2000 with Wilfried Belschner (Ed.): Spirituality and Health. BIS, Oldenburg
• 2003 Zen in the West - New Discourse for an Old Practice. LIT, Münster
• 2007 Dr. Faust's last chance: the good life. Isensee, Oldenburg.
• 2008 "Farewell, DR. Faust, Adieu Mephistopheles" LIT Verlag Münster
• 2010 "Strength, violence, power - considerations during a sailing trip through the Göta Canal" Cuvillier, Göttingen.

Individual work

• 1973 Behavioral Therapy and Modification: The Control of Human Behavior. Yearbook of the Max Planck Society, Munich
• 1998 Psychotherapy and Spiritual Exercises. Lecture at the conference of the International Jean Gebser Society 1998 in Berlin. In: Contributions to the integral worldview. (Jb Intern JGGes) XIII
• 1999 Psychotherapy and the ways to freedom of the ego. Transpers Psychol Psychother 5, No. 2 pp. 57-75
• 2003 Alfred Korzybski's "General Semantics " as a seed of Integral Consciousness. and Gnosis and Integral Consciousness. In: Contributions to the integral worldview. (Jb Intern JGGes) XVIII pp. 10–40 and pp. 99–106
• 2005 A shadow figure of humanism. Four hundred years of Dr. Fist. In: Contributions to the integral worldview. (Jb Intern JGGes) XIX pp. 121-147
• 2006 Gebser preserve - the time-free task ... In: Contributions to the integral world view. (Jb Intern JGGes) XX pp. 137-145
• 2006 Spiritual Paths - a general attempt at orientation. ( ) Introduction to the topic of the conference. Annual meeting of the Jean Gebser Society 2006 (only online )

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Gottwald in the catalog of the German National Library
• Personal website at the Carl-von-Ossietzky University of Oldenburg