Thomas Maria Mayr

Thomas Maria Mayr (* 1955 in Cologne ) is a German psychiatrist, ethnologist and author.

Life

Mayr grew up in Koblenz and studied ethnology , education and medicine at the University of Mainz . In 1981 and 1982 he conducted field research with the Paez and Guambiano in Colombia . He completed his studies in 1984 with a Magister Artium (MA); worked as a lecturer at the ethnological institute at JGU from 1991 to 1993 . This was followed by several research stays (between 1989 and 2010) in Rwanda on traditional medicine as well as participation in a psychiatric project in Kigali (2008–2011). In addition, he has been involved in human rights work for many years, including in the Society for Threatened Peoples as a country officer for Rwanda and Colombia.

In 1986 Mayr was licensed as a doctor , in 1987 he received his doctorate in psychosomatic medicine with Sven Olaf Hoffmann at the University of Mainz on the subject of hysteria . He trained as a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy (1995) and as a specialist in psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy (1998). He has been based in Göllheim since 1996 .

He was a member of VS Rhineland-Palatinate , is a member of the advisory board of the Palatinate Literary Association and a founding member of the Donnersberger Literaturverein and its 1st chairman since 2012. He is also co-organizer of the biannual Donnersberger Literaturtage and juror for the award of the Susanne Faschon - Price. He writes poetry , radio plays and short prose. The literary genres tilted poem and puzzling poem are linked to his name . Mayr lives in Kirchheimbolanden .

Oppression and Indian Resistance in Colombia. The example of the CRIC (Regional Indian Council of Cauca). University Library Kassel 1985, ISBN 3-88122-249-9 .
Hysterical body symptoms. A study from a historical and (inter) cultural point of view. VAS - Publishing House for Academic Writings, Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-88864-020-2 .

For ethnomedical confidentiality. In: Curare . Vol. 5 (1982), H. 2, pp. 71-73, ISSN 0344-8622; reprinted and commented in: Curare . Vol. 37 (2014), H. 4, pp. 306-309, ISBN 978-3-86135-800-8 .
Rwanda: traditional medicine on the offensive? In: Curare . Vol. 13 (1990), H. 3, pp. 147-160, ISSN 0344-8622.
Hysteria as a medical construct. A medical anthropological consideration. In: Hospital Psychiatry. Vol. 7 (1996), pp. 105-109, ISSN 0937-289X.
Early childhood in Rwanda. In: Christine Gottschalk-Batschkus, Judith Schuler (Ed.): Ethnomedical Perspectives on Early Childhood. VWB - Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung, Berlin 1996, pp. 21–36, ISBN 3-86135-561-2 .
The use of indicator substances in traditional medicine in Rwanda. A critical note on the term therapy in ethnomedicine. In: Curare . Vol. 21 (1998), H. 2, pp. 163-169, ISBN 3-86135-553-1 .
The "so-called hysteria." Medical anthropological consideration of a nosological construct. In: Gunter Wahl, Wolfram Schmitt (ed.): Obsession and hysteria. Weinsberg talks on the history of mental medicine. Verlag Communicative Media and Medicine, Reichenbach 2001, pp. 139–152, ISBN 3-930583-04-6 .

Nuances. Poems . Gipfelbuch-Verlag, Waldsolms 2004, ISBN 3-937591-17-6 .
Twilight. Poems . Geest-Verlag, Vechta 2007, ISBN 978-3-86685-072-9 .
Hybrid weeks. Poems . Geest-Verlag, Vechta 2017, ISBN 978-3-86685-614-1 . [1]
Tip and puzzling poems . In: Chaussee. Journal for Literature and Culture of the Palatinate Issue 41, 2018, pp. 101-108, ISSN 1436-1442.
with Jürgen Preckel: From the wind the words - from the sea the music . Self-published, 2014 (CD).

with Waltraud Amberger: ZimmerLautStärke. Student texts on the Donnersberg Literature Days 2007 and 2009 . Geest-Verlag, Vechta 2009, ISBN 978-3-86685-243-3 .
Departure. The texts of the prize winners for the Donnersberger Literaturtage 2011 and 2013 - students as authors . Geest-Verlag, Vechta 2013, ISBN 978-3-86685-436-9 .
with Thomas Behnke: Fate and Fate. The texts of the prize winners for the Donnersberger Literaturtage 2015 and 2017 . Geest-Verlag, Vechta 2017, ISBN 978-3-86685-646-2 .

Only in his poetry are boxword rhymes; first published in: NLP . tape 34/35 . ProgressDruck, Speyer 2004.

2012: Prize winner at the Palatinate dialect poet contest in Bockenheim (3rd place)
2014: Winner of the Hildesheim poetry competition (6th place in online voting; out of 1,075 entries)
2020: Prize winner of the literary poetry competition Literaturpodium.de, Märkischer Kreis (8th place out of approx. 2,500 submissions)

personal data
SURNAME	Mayr, Thomas Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German psychiatrist, ethnologist, poet and author
DATE OF BIRTH	1955
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cologne