Peter Selg

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Peter Selg (born August 5, 1963 in Stuttgart-Hedelfingen ), specialist in child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy, is head of the Ita Wegman Institute for basic anthroposophical research . He teaches medical anthropology and ethics at the University of Witten-Herdecke and at the Alanus University for Art and Society (Alfter near Bonn) and is the author and editor of numerous publications.

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Life

Peter Selg graduated from the Robert Bosch-Gymnasium in Wendlingen am Neckar and received a scholarship from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (support for gifted students). After his community service he studied human medicine in Witten-Herdecke, Berlin and Zurich and received his doctorate with a work on the history of ideas on the conception of a human physiology in Rudolf Steiner's work (which later appeared in book form under the title "Vom Logos Menschlicher Physis"). He completed a specialist training in child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy and temporarily worked as a senior physician in the psychiatric department for adolescents and young adults at the Herdecke community hospital (under Peter F. Matthiessen).

Later Peter Selg was a research assistant at the Freiburg Institute for Applied Epistemology and Medical Methodology (where he published a work biography of Gerhard Kienle) and at the Medical Section at the Goetheanum. From 2002 to 2006 he was a member of the college of senior physicians at Ita Wegman Clinic Arlesheim. Since then he has headed the Ita Wegman Institute for basic anthroposophical research and teaches in Witten-Herdecke and Alfter. Together with the head of the digital archive of the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial, the Polish historian Krzysztof Antonczyk, he has been holding seminars for students on medical ethics and the medical crimes of National Socialism at the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial since 2009.

Peter Selg's books have been translated into ten languages ​​and form the basis of his international lectures and seminars on the contribution of anthroposophical spiritual science to modern civilization. He is married to the art historian and Slavist Julia Selg; They live with their five children near Freiburg im Breisgau.

Works (selection)

To Rudolf Steiner

  • The presence of the past. Rudolf Steiner and the topicality of 1917. Ita Wegman Institute publishing house, Arlesheim 2017, ISBN 978-3-905919-98-1 .
  • Rudolf Steiner 1861–1925. Life and work history. 3 volumes. Ita Wegman Institute publishing house, Arlesheim 2012; 2nd edition in 7 volumes, Arlesheim 2018 http://www.wegman-verlag.de/.

To medical anthropology

  • Gerhard Kienle and the University of Witten-Herdecke. Medical education and ethics. Publishing house of the Ita Wegman Institute, Arlesheim 2017, ISBN 978-3-905919-87-5 .
  • The dignity of the body and the healing power of the spirit. Ita Wegman Institute publishing house, Arlesheim 2016, ISBN 978-3-905919-81-3 .
  • Hippocrates. Medical education and ethics. Ita Wegman Institute publishing house, Arlesheim 2015, ISBN 978-3-905919-65-3 .
  • with Peter Heusser : The body-soul problem. On the development of a spiritual image of man in medicine in the 20th century. Publishing house of the Ita Wegman Institute, Arlesheim 2011, ISBN 978-3-905919-29-5 .
  • with Sergej O. Prokofieff : Protecting life. Medical ethics and assisted suicide. Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 2010, ISBN 978-3-7235-1415-3 .
  • as editor: Gerhard Kienle: The dignity of the human being and the humanization of medicine. Ita Wegman Institute publishing house, Arlesheim 2009, ISBN 978-3-905919-11-0 .
  • Friedrich Holderlin. The lines of life. Free Spiritual Life Publishing House, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-7725-1807-2 .
  • "Everything is unforgotten". Paul Celan and Nelly Sachs. Pforte Verlag, Dornach 2008, ISBN 978-3-85636-179-2 .
  • Rainer Maria Rilke and Franz Kafka. Life path and fate of illness in the 20th century. Pforte Verlag, Dornach 2007, ISBN 978-3-85636-175-4 .
  • Gerhard Kienle. Life and work. 2 volumes. Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 2003, ISBN 3-7235-1165-1 .

On the ideal foundations of anthroposophic medicine

  • What does anthroposophic medicine mean and at what end? Ita Wegman Institute publishing house, Arlesheim 2017, ISBN 978-3-905919-89-9 .
  • Human and mistletoe. The justification of the oncological Viscum treatment by Rudolf Steiner and Ita Wegman . Salumed Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9815535-7-4 .
  • with Maurice Orange, Hartmut Ramm and Severin Poechtrager (eds.): Mistletoe research and cancer therapy. Publishing house of the Ita Wegman Institute, Arlesheim 2016, ISBN 978-3-905919-79-0 .
  • with Christoph Rubens (ed.): The human heart. Cardiology in anthroposophic medicine. Ita Wegman Institute publishing house, Arlesheim 2014, ISBN 978-3-905919-60-8 .
  • as editor: "And indeed, this worked". The medical histories of the book "Fundamentals of an expansion of the healing art according to spiritual scientific knowledge" by Rudolf Steiner and Ita Wegman. A documentation. Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 2007, ISBN 978-3-7235-1315-6 .
  • Medicine must be serious about the spiritual life. Rudolf Steiner's college courses for “young doctors” . Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 2006, ISBN 3-7235-1280-1 .
  • as editor: texts on medicine from the work of Rudolf Steiner. II pathology and therapy. Source texts for the sciences Volume 4 (). Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Dornach 2004.
  • as editor: texts on medicine from the work of Rudolf Steiner. I Physiological study of the human being. (= Source texts for the sciences. Volume 3). Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Dornach 2004, ISBN 3-7274-5353-2 .
  • Illness, healing and fate of man. About Rudolf Steiner's understanding of pathology and therapy in the humanities . Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 2004, ISBN 3-7235-1215-1 .
  • Mysterium Cordis: From the mystery site of the human heart. Studies on the Sacramental Physiology of the Heart Organ. Aristotle , Thomas Aquinas , Rudolf Steiner . Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 2003, ISBN 3-7235-1194-5 .
  • Illness and knowledge of Christ. Anthroposophic medicine as a Christian healing art . Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 2001, ISBN 3-7235-1114-7 .
  • From the logos of the human physique. The development of an anthroposophical human physiology in Rudolf Steiner's work. Study edition Volume I: 1882–1911. Volume II: 1919-1925. 2nd Edition. Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 2000, ISBN 3-7235-1245-3 .

To Ita Wegman

  • The courage of healing. About Ita Wegman. Publishing house of the Ita Wegman Institute, Arlesheim 2017, ISBN 978-3-905919-92-9 .
  • as editor: Ita Wegman. Memory of Rudolf Steiner. 2nd Edition. Publishing house of the Ita Wegman Institute, Arlesheim 2011, ISBN 978-3-9523425-3-4 .
  • as editor: Ita Wegman. Medical-therapeutic correspondence. Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 2007, ISBN 978-3-7235-1317-0 .
  • Ita Wegman and Arlesheim . Natura Verlag im Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 2006, ISBN 3-7235-1277-1 .
  • Spiritual resistance and overcoming. Ita Wegman 1933-1935 . Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 2005, ISBN 3-7235-1229-1 .
  • The last three years. Ita Wegman in Ascona 1940–1943. 2nd Edition. Natura Verlag im Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 2006, ISBN 3-7235-1205-4 .
  • "I am for progress". Ita Wegman and the Medical Section . Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 2002, ISBN 3-7235-1140-6 .

Victims of National Socialism

  • Ilse Rennefeld. An anthroposophical doctor of Jewish origin in exile in the Netherlands (1939–1942). Ita Wegman Institute publishing house, Arlesheim 2017, ISBN 978-3-906947-01-3 .
  • Nelly Sachs. The victims of National Socialism and the “hunted all over the world”. Publishing house of the Ita Wegman Institute, Arlesheim 2017, ISBN 978-3-905919-01-1 .
  • Alexander Schmorell 1917–1943. The idealism of the "White Rose" and spiritual Russia. Publishing house of the Ita Wegman Institute, Arlesheim 2013, ISBN 978-3-905919-55-4 .
  • Survive in Auschwitz. Elie Wiesel - Ruth Klüger - Ruth Elias - Primo Levi - Viktor Frankl. Ita Wegman Institute publishing house, Arlesheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-905919-23-3 .
  • Maria Krehbiel-Darmstädter. From Gurs to Auschwitz. The inner way. Ita Wegman Institute publishing house, Arlesheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-905919-20-2 .
  • The spiritual path of Hans and Sophie Scholl . "We all have our standards in ourselves" . Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 2006, ISBN 3-7235-1275-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Selg: From the logos of human physique. Vol. 2. 1919-1925 . 2nd, corrected and advanced Ed. Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 2006, ISBN 3-7235-1245-3 .
  2. ↑ Peter Selg, Gerhard Kienle: Gerhard Kienle - life and work / vol. 1. A biography. Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 2003, ISBN 3-7235-1165-1 .
  3. ↑ Press release from the University of Witten / Herdecke on the excursions with Prof. Peter Selg. University of Witten / Herdecke, May 10, 2019, accessed on August 29, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Selg, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anthroposophist, specialist in child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy
DATE OF BIRTH 5th August 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart