Thomas Loew

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Thomas Horst Loew (born March 28, 1961 in Nuremberg ) is a German specialist in psychiatry , psychosomatics and psychotherapist .

Life

Loew studied medicine from 1982 to 1989 at the universities of Florence , Ulm and Erlangen-Nuremberg . In 1990 he received his doctorate . He received his specialist doctor in 1995 for psychotherapeutic medicine and 1999 for psychiatry. In 1997 Loew completed his habilitation . He also has additional qualifications in medical informatics and psychoanalysis. His scientific interest continues to focus on body-oriented methods in medicine, in particular functional relaxation , for which he is also a lecturer, and health services research. Since 1998 he has been involved in the further training of doctors in psychodynamic psychotherapy . In 1994 he was awarded the Continentale Promotional Prize for Naturopathic Treatment for a prospective randomized controlled study on a relaxation technique ; in 2000, together with Norbert Hartkamp, ​​Peter Henningsen, Martin Sack , and Carl E. Scheid, he received the German Health Insurance Cochrane Prize for its creation of the Somatoform Disorders guidelines.

Loew has been a regular professor of psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy at the University of Regensburg since 2001 and chief physician of the psychosomatic department there, as well as chief physician of the psychosomatic ward at the Donaustauf Clinic .

From 2000 to 2004 he was vice-president of the German Society for Psychotherapy Based on Depth Psychology and has also been co-editor of the organ of the society, “Psychodynamic Psychotherapy” at Schattauer Verlag, Stuttgart, since 2002. From 2004 to 2009 he was first chairman of the German Society for Psychosomatic Medicine and Medical Psychotherapy, which emerged in 2006 from the German Society for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy and the General Medical Society for Psychotherapy and represents the area in Germany. In 2006 he founded the Medical Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine, which is published quarterly by Schattauer Verlag, Stuttgart. In 2012, Loew was elected to succeed Günter R. Clausen as chairman of the German Society for Medical Hypnosis and Autogenic Training and was re-elected in 2015. Also in 2012, he became Vice President of the Association of European Physicians for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, AEPM. He is involved in an association for the training of trauma helpers in Regensburg.

Fonts (selection)

  • 1990: The volvulus of the intestinal tract (doctorate, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)
  • 1998: with Peter Joraschky and Volker Köllner: When the soul lets the body suffer, Trias Verlag, Stuttgart ISBN 978-3893734184
  • 1999: Functional gastrointestinal complaints, Centaurus Verlag, Pfaffenweiler ISBN 978-3825502560
  • 2009: with Peter Joraschky and Frank Röhricht (eds.) Body experience and body image, Schattauer Verlag, Stuttgart ISBN 978-3794524259
  • 2011: Participation in Dieter Ebert: Psychiatrie systematis , 8th edition, UNI-MED Verlag, Bremen ISBN 978-3837412789

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deutsches Ärzteblatt 1995 A-226 , accessed on April 22, 2017.
  2. Press releases of the University of Erlangen Awards 2000 , accessed on April 22, 2017.
  3. ^ University of Regensburg. Member of the Psychosomatic Department , accessed April 21, 2017.
  4. ^ Psychosomatic ward of the Donaustauf Clinic , accessed on April 21, 2017.
  5. Deutsches Ärzteblatt 2004; 101 (50): A-3445 / B-2909 / C-2757
  6. Deutsches Ärzteblatt 2012; 109 (41): A-2049 / B-1671 / C-1639
  7. Deutsches Ärzteblatt 2015; 112 (38): A-1533 / B-1281 / C-1253
  8. ^ Website of the Association of European Physicians for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy
  9. Website of the association certainly eV