Uwe Henrik Peters
Uwe Henrik Peters (born June 21, 1930 in Kiel ) is a German psychiatrist and neurologist .
Life
Peters received his doctorate in 1957 from Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel and qualified as a professor in 1965 in neurology and psychiatry. In 1969 he became a full professor at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and was director of the mental hospital at Cologne University from 1979 to 1996 . From 1991 to 1994 he was President and Vice President of the German Society for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Neurology . Peters was Adjunct Professor for German Literature at Cornell University in Ithaca , New York . In his numerous publications, he has also worked in the border area between medicine and the humanities, for example in works about the madness of Hölderlin and that of Robert Schumann .
His daughter Caroline Peters is an actress.
Publications (selection)
prose
- The psyche of the schizophrenic . 3. Edition. Cologne 2017. ISBN 978-3-931906-37-5
- My childhood under Hitler , audio CD - Audiobook, Ana Publishers, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-931906-10-8
- Nazi psychiatry. Rise and Fall , Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-931906-16-0
- Caught in the madhouse - Robert Schumann , Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-931906-07-8
- Robert Schumann - 13 days to Endenich , Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-931906-06-1
- Robert Schumann. Melancholy states of mind and creative power , in: Between poetry and music. Robert Schumann - early and late , accompanying book and catalog, ed. by Ingrid Bodsch and Gerd Nauhaus , Bonn: Stroemfeld, ISBN 3-86600-000-6
- Is Psychiatry a Dying Discipline? - Developments in psychiatry. Berlin and Heidelberg: Springer, 2006, ISBN 978-3-540-30099-1 (print)
- Psychiatry in exile: the emigration of dynamic psychiatry from Germany 1933–1939 , Düsseldorf: Kupka, 1992 ISBN 3-926567-04-X
- Anna Freud . A life for the child . Biography. revised paperback edition. Frankfurt am Main 1984. ISBN 978-3-596-25625-9
- Hölderlin: against the thesis of the noble simulant , Reinbek b. Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1982 ISBN 3-499-25164-7
- Уве Генрих Петерс. Немецкая психиатрия: Прошлое и настоящее . К. : Ассоциация психиатров Украины, 1996. - 40 с. ISBN 90-72657-10-1
reference books
- Psychiatry dictionary from A to Z: English - German German - English. Elsevier, Munich 2017. ISBN 978-3-437-15066-1 .
- Lexicon of psychiatry, psychotherapy, medical psychology . 7th edition 2016, Urban & Fischer , ISBN 978-3-437-15063-0 .
- Dictionary of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology. Munich / Vienna / Baltimore 1971; 6th edition Fischer bei Elsevier 2007, ISBN 978-3-437-15061-6 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Uwe Henrik Peters in the catalog of the German National Library
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Peters, Uwe Henrik |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Peters, Uwe Hendrik (misspelled second first name); Peters-Rieger, Uwe Henrik; Peters, Uwe Genrich (Russian) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German psychiatrist and neurologist |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 21, 1930 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Kiel |