Tilmann Habermas

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Tilmann Habermas (* 1956 ) is a German psychologist, psychoanalyst , university professor and author.

Life

The son of the philosopher and sociologist Jürgen Habermas studied psychology in Hamburg and Heidelberg and educational science at Harvard (1984: diploma in psychology, Heidelberg; 1988: doctorate , Heidelberg; 1995: habilitation , Heidelberg).

From 1984 to 1986 he was an assistant at Heidelberg University Hospital . From 1987 to 1999 he was a research assistant and university assistant at the Free University of Berlin , Medical Psychology, from 2000 Charité Berlin. From 1995 to 2001 he taught as a private lecturer at the Psychological Institute in Heidelberg. From 1995 to 1996 he represented the chair of clinical psychology at the University of Potsdam . From 1998 to 1999 he was a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development . Since 2002 he has been teaching as a professor for psychoanalysis at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . From 2011 to 2012 he taught as Theodor Heuss Professor at the New School for Social Research .

After working on the history and cultural conditions of modern eating disorders and the psychology of beloved things, his current research focuses on the development of the subjective life story and its change over time (since 2003 long-term study MainLife), narrative emotion management and conarrations in socialization (parent-child) and psychotherapy (Therapist-patient).

Fonts (selection)

  • Cravings. Historical conditions of bulimia nervosa . Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-596-42330-9 .
  • On the history of anorexia. A medical-psychological reconstruction . Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-596-11825-5 .
  • Beloved objects. Symbols and instruments of identity formation . Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-518-29014-2 .
  • with Rolf Haubl (Ed.): Rediscover Freud. Selected readings. Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-525-45167-0 .
  • as ed. The development of autobiographical reasoning in adolescence and beyond . (= New Directions in Child and Adolescent Development. No. 131). San Francisco 2011, ISBN 978-1-118-00380-0 .
  • Emotion and narrative. Perspectives in autobiographical storytelling . Cambridge 2019, ISBN 978-1-107-03213-2 .

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