Peter Riedesser

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Peter Riedesser (born March 9, 1945 in Waldburg (Württemberg) ; † September 19, 2008 in Hamburg ) was a German child and youth psychiatrist.

Life

Riedesser studied medicine in Freiburg im Breisgau and from 1979 was a doctor at the children's clinic at the Freiburg University Clinic . In 1984 he completed his specialist training as a child and youth psychiatrist , in 1988 he finished his psychoanalytic training and acquired the additional titles of “ psychotherapist ” and “ psychoanalyst ”. In the same year he completed his habilitation. As a senior physician, he headed the psychosomatic department of the Freiburg University Children's Clinic and in 1991 was appointed professor for child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Hamburg . He was also director of the Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of Children and Adolescents atUniversity Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE).

Riedesser was considered an expert in trauma (see also psychotraumatology ), who was one of the first to systematically examine the psychology of militarization and armed violence. In his research, he primarily dealt with psychological trauma in children.

Through his scientific work, Riedesser founded aid projects for underage war victims and was involved in the board of the International Doctors for the Prevention of Nuclear War ( IPPNW ) until his death . As a committed representative of an updated Enlightenment and modern humanism , Riedesser was active on the scientific advisory board of the Giordano Bruno Foundation . Riedesser was also a member of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg .

Fonts

  • Arming the souls. Military psychiatry and military psychology in Germany and America (with Axel Verderber). Dreisam, Freiburg im Breisgau 1985, ISBN 3-921472-96-2
  • with Gottfried Fischer : textbook of psychotraumatology. Reinhardt, Munich 1998, ISBN 978-3-8252-8165-6 (last in 4th edition 2009)
  • “Machine guns behind the front”. On the history of German military psychiatry (with Axel Verderber). Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-596-10876-4 (last in 2nd edition 2004)
  • Main topic: Relationship - Development - Sustainability. Approaches from psychoanalysis and child and adolescent psychiatry. Contributions to a symposium on the occasion of Peter Riedesser's 60th birthday , ed. by Hubertus Adam. [Festschrift.] Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2007

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personal data
SURNAME Riedesser, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German child and youth psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Waldburg (Württemberg)
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 2008
Place of death Hamburg