René Bloch (psychiatrist)

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René Bloch (born February 14, 1937 in Basel ) is a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist .

Life

Bloch studied medicine , passed the state examination in 1965 and received his doctorate in 1965 at the University of Basel . In 1973 he obtained the title of specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy. In the same year he turned down an offer for a habilitation at the University of Mannheim .

Bloch advocated the moderate use of psychotropic drugs , especially antidepressants , in numerous articles since 1985 . He advocated a more precise, scientifically better-founded application of the term depression . He came to his critical stance when he worked as an assistant doctor in the Münsterlingen Psychiatric Clinic from 1969 to 1974 by observing the now controversial work of the clinic director Roland Kuhn , who discovered the effects of imipramine.

The multidimensional character test developed by Bloch between 1966 and 1971 has been used primarily in Czechoslovakia and Hungary.

Works published in 2014 and 2017 deal with the inexorable progression of human-induced changes in the equilibrium in nature and the influence of the dominance of technology on mental health. In 2017, the question of how the insufficient reaction of society to an increasing threat from the destruction of the environment and armament could be explained. By adapting psychotherapeutic methodology to the current etiological factors that are localized in the patient's environment, a new psychotherapeutic paradigm is to be introduced.

Fonts

• Addiction and death instincts. Benteli, Bern 1966 (dissertation, University of Basel, 1965)
• Image and personality. The multidimensional character test (MDZT). Edited by René Bloch with the collaboration of Ubald Meier and Paul Schmidt. Hans Huber, Bern / Stuttgart / Vienna 1971, ISBN 3-456-30426-9 .
• About the relationships between variables of the Multidimensional Character Test and physiological variables. In: Swiss journal for psychology and its applications. Vol. 33 (1974), H. 2, pp. 146-172.
• Objective diagnosis of depression with the MDZT. The multidimensional character test on the way to the biological detection of depression ” In: The informed doctor, Gazette Médicale. 1985, H. 20, pp. 22-29.
• Psychiatry in transition or decline? In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . September 30, 1987, p. 136.
• Are we threatened by total psychiatry? The business with the psychoboom. Walter, Olten / Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-530-07840-9 .
• Advances and dangers of drugs in psychiatry. In: Swiss Medical Journal . Vol. 70 (1989), H. 44, pp. 1861-1867.
• Psychiatric understanding of illness and classification of depression. In: Swiss Medical Journal. Vol. 71 (1990), no. 19.
• Three studies on the multi-dimensional character test (MDZT). In: Dynamic Psychiatry. Vol. 46 (2013), no. 1.
• Psychotherapy as a cultural phenomenon. In: Swiss Medical Journal. 2014; 95: 11.
• The Psychagogische psychotherapy . A model of thought for the 21st century. Verlagshaus der Ärzte, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-99052-084-0 .
• Denial as a medical and social phenomenon. In: Psychology in Austria. Vol. 36 (2016), H. 5, pp. 344-349 ( abstract ).
• Destructive instinct and transcendence. The endangerment of creation and the position of man. Königshausen & Neumann 2017, ISBN 978-3-8260-6171-4

literature

• Marc Girard: René Bloch on his seventy-fifth birthday. In: Swiss Medical Journal . Vol. 93 (2012), no. 12, p. 471 ( PDF ).
• Otto Hostettler: Drug Trials. «You saw and said nothing». In: Observer . 2015, no. 5 ( online ).

Web links

• Literature by and about René Bloch in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Entry in the medical index of the Association of Swiss Doctors (FMH), accessed on June 29, 2013.