Ulfried Geuter

Ulfried Geuter (born June 9, 1950 in Mönchengladbach ) is a German psychologist and psychotherapist from Berlin and a professor for body psychotherapy at the University of Marburg .

Live and act

Geuter studied psychology, philosophy and German studies in Bonn from 1986 to 1974 and, after graduating in psychology , went to the Free University of Berlin as a doctoral student , where he worked as a research assistant from 1978 to 1983 . In 1982 he received his doctorate with the dissertation "The professionalization of German psychology under National Socialism". In 1984 he held a teaching position at the University of Oldenburg and was entrusted with a research project on the history of psychology for the DFG . From 1986 to 1988 the research project “Youth and Psychological Youth Research 1890–1930” of the Volkswagenwerk Foundation followed . In 1994 he completed his habilitation with the study “Homosexuality in the German Youth Movement. Boy friendship and sexuality in the discourse of the youth movement, psychoanalysis and youth psychology at the beginning of the 20th century ”.

Geuter also completed training as a psychotherapist, first in conversation psychotherapy , then in body psychotherapy at the Institute for Integrative Biodynamics in Göttingen and in psychoanalysis at the Institute for Psychotherapy in Berlin. Since 1989 he has been working as a psychotherapist in his own practice. In 1990 he co-founded the Center for Body-Related Psychotherapy in Berlin and worked there until 2004. Since then he has worked with his wife in a group of psychotherapists.

From 1994 to 2005 Geuter was a private lecturer at the Free University of Berlin, 1996 and 1998 visiting professor with the field of body- related psychotherapy at the University of Innsbruck , since 2005 lecturer for body psychotherapy in the master’s course in motology at the University of Marburg . Since 2010 he has been teaching there as an adjunct professor for body psychotherapy in the specialization of the same name at the Institute for Sports Science and Motology . Among other things, he is active in psychotherapeutic training and further education at the Institute for Psychotherapy in Potsdam and at the Institute for Psychological Psychotherapy and Counseling in Berlin. In 1994 he was a co-founder of the German Society for Body Psychotherapy and continues to work there today. In 2019 he founded the institute for further training in body psychotherapy in Berlin.

In addition to the publications as the author of monographs and numerous articles, Geuter was co-editor of the journal “Psychoanlalyse und Körper” from 2002 to 2005 and, since 2013, of the journal “Körper – tanz – Bewegungs”. He is also a scientific adviser to various specialist journals.

Greuter is married to the neurologist, psychiatrist and psychotherapist Lydia Olbrich-Geuter and has two sons.

Journalistic activity

Since 1984 Geuter has worked as a journalist for the broadcasting corporations of the ARD , from 1986 to 1988 mainly with reports on Brazil , since then as a science journalist on topics in the field of psychology and the history of science, also for print media. Most recently, he was a columnist for a health supplement to various daily newspapers until 2015 . In 1997 he received the Journalist Prize from the German Nutrition Society .

Publications (selection)

• Homosexuality in the German Youth Movement. Youth friendship and sexuality in the discourse of youth movement, psychoanalysis and youth psychology of the 20th century , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 978-3-518-28713-2
• The Professionalization of German Psychology under National Socialism , Dissertation, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 978-3-518-28301-1 (English: The Professionalization of Psychology in Nazi Germany . New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992, ISBN 978 -0521332972 )
• German-language literature on body psychotherapy. A bibliography , Leutner, Berlin 2002, ISBN 978-3-934391-06-2
• Body psychotherapy. Outline of a theory for clinical practice , Springer Verlag 2015, ISBN 978-3-642-04013-9
• Practice body psychotherapy. 10 principles of work in the therapeutic process , Springer Verlag, 2019, ISBN 978-3-662-56595-7

As editor

• with Mitchell Ash : History of German Psychology in the 20th Century, Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1985, ISBN 978-3-5312-2128-1
• Data on the history of German psychology. Psychological institutes, professional societies, specialist journals and series, biographies, emigrants 1879–1945 , Hogrefe Verlag, 1986, ISBN 978-3-8017-0225-0
• Data on the history of German psychology, psychological dissertations 1885–1967 , Hogrefe Verlag, 1987, ISBN 978-3-8017-0249-6

Web links

• Website of Ulfried Geuter
• Ulfried Geuter on the website of the University of Marburg (with list of publications)
• Literature by and about Ulfried Geuter in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Ulfried Geuter in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Philipps University of Marburg: Apl. Prof. Dr. Ulfried Geuter. Retrieved December 2, 2019 . 
2. ^ Press office: Motology for the first time with a major in body psychotherapy - Philipps University of Marburg. Accessed December 1, 2019 . 
3. ^ Institute for further training in body psychotherapy. In: Institute for further training in body psychotherapy. Accessed December 1, 2019 . 
4. ↑ SWR2, SWR2: Attentive to the present. Retrieved December 2, 2019 . 
5. ↑ SWR2, SWR2: More than words - about body communication. Retrieved December 2, 2019 . 
6. ↑ JournalistenPreise.de - Journalists' Prize of the DGE - Winner. Retrieved January 6, 2020 .