Thomas Fuchs (doctor)
Thomas Fuchs (born September 29, 1958 in Munich ) is a German psychiatrist and philosopher .
Life
From 1981 to 1988 Fuchs studied medicine, philosophy and the history of science. In 1990 he received his PhD in medical history with a dissertation on The Mechanization of the Heart - Harvey and Descartes . In the years from 1989 to 1996 psychiatric training followed at the Technical University of Munich . In 1995 he was made a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy . Since 1997, Fuchs has been a senior physician at the Psychiatric University Hospital Heidelberg and head of the Phenomenological Psychopathology and Psychotherapy Section. In 1999 he completed his habilitation in psychiatry at the University of Heidelberg . In 1999 he received his doctorate in philosophy on the subject of "Body, Space, Person. Draft of a phenomenological anthropology".
Since 2004 he has been head of the "Philosophical Basics" section of the German Society for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Neurology , and since 2005 Professor of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University of Heidelberg. From 2008 to 2013 he was a fellow at the Marsilius-Kolleg (Center for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies) Heidelberg.
In 2010 he completed his habilitation in philosophy at the University of Heidelberg and was appointed Karl Jaspers Professor for Philosophical Foundations of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy.
He is co-editor of the scientific journal Psychopathology , head of the research unit of the edition project Karl Jaspers Complete Edition at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences since 2012 and first chairman of the German Society for Phenomenological Anthropology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (DGAP) since 2013. In 2019, Fuchs was elected Vice President of the German Society for Phenomenological Research . Together with Lambert Wiesing, who was elected president at the same time, he runs the company.
Research priorities
His scientific focus is on phenomenological psychology, psychopathology and anthropology, body phenomenology, the relationship between phenomenology and cognitive neurosciences, especially with regard to theories of embodiment , enactivism , temporality and intersubjectivity , mother-child interaction research in postpartum disorders, theory and ethics of psychiatry and neuroscience.
Publications (selection)
- The mechanization of the heart. Harvey and Descartes - The vital and mechanical aspects of the cycle. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1992.
- Coenesthesia - on the history of community feeling. In: Gerhardt Nissen , Frank Badura (Hrsg.): Series of publications of the German Society for the History of Neurology. Volume 2, Würzburg 1997, pp. 89-102.
- Psychopathology of Body and Space. Phenomenological-empirical studies on depressive and paranoid diseases. Steinkopff, Darmstadt 2000.
- Body, space, person. Draft of a phenomenological anthropology. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2000.
- Time diagnoses. Philosophical-psychiatric essays. The gray edition, Zug 2002.
- Body and lifeworld. New philosophical-psychiatric essays. The gray edition, Kusterdingen 2008.
- The brain - a relational organ. A phenomenological-ecological concept. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2008.
- Ecology of the Brain. The Phenomenology and Biology of the Embodied Mind. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2018.
- Defense of man. Basic questions of an embodied anthropology. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2020.
- Fringes of experience. Contributions to phenomenological psychopathology. Verlag Karl Alber, Freiburg 2020.
Web links
- Literature by and about Thomas Fuchs in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage of the Clinic for General Psychiatry at Heidelberg University Hospital
- curriculum vitae
Individual evidence
- ^ Homepage of the Heidelberg Psychiatric Clinic , accessed on July 28, 2011.
- ^ RPP Institute Vienna , accessed on July 28, 2011.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fuchs, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German psychiatrist and philosopher in Heidelberg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 29, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |