Valentin Markser

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Valentin Zdravko Markser (born 1952 in Kunišinci , Croatia ) is a doctor, sports psychiatrist and former German-Croatian handball player . He works as a specialist in Cologne in his own practice for psychiatry and psychotherapy , psychosomatics and psychoanalysis .

Markser became known to the general public as a sports psychiatrist after the suicide of national soccer goalkeeper Robert Enke in 2009. He then devoted himself to the education and dissemination of sports psychiatry as a medical discipline for maintaining mental health in competitive sports and health sports as a treatment method for mental disorders .

Sports career

Markser began his career as a handball player as a goalkeeper at RK Graficar Osijek ( Croatia ), he moved to TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen , later to VfL Gummersbach . Further stations were the Wermelskirchener TV , the Reinickendorfer Füchse (today Füchse Berlin).

At VfL Gummersbach he played together with Hansi Schmidt , Heiner Brand , Joachim Deckarm and Erhard Wunderlich .

He achieved his greatest successes with VfL Gummersbach, where he became German champion in 1974, and in the same year his team won the European championship . In 1978 he won the German Cup with the team . In 1978 and 1979 the team won the European Cup Winners' Cup . With the Reinickendorfer Füchsen he became German runner-up in 1982.

Working life

Markser began studying human medicine in 1971 at the University of Cologne . In 1981 he received his license to practice medicine there . Between 1978 and 1989 he completed a degree in philosophy , history and sociology , which he completed with a master's degree in philosophy. In 1987 he obtained his doctorate at the medical faculty of the University of Cologne. Between 1981 and 2001 he continued his education at the Rheinische Klinik Köln-Merheim and at the Psychoanalytische Arbeitsgemeinschaft Köln-Düsseldorf. In addition, he worked at the mental hospital in Berlin-Spandau and was recognized as a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy and as a specialist in psychosomatic medicine .

From 1990 to 1995 he was a lecturer in social psychiatry at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences in the social work department. From 2010 to 2018 he was a member of the board of trustees of the Robert Enke Foundation .

In 2010 he was co-founder and deputy head of the department for sports psychiatry and psychotherapy of the German Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Neurology DGPPN (until 2018).

On his initiative, the Department for Sport Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the DGPPN, the Institute for Sport Psychiatry and the German Society for Sport Psychiatry and Psychotherapy were founded. He headed the DGPPN department together with Frank Schneider until 2016. Today he practices in his practice in Cologne.

Scientific focus

His therapeutic and scientific focus is sports psychiatry. Since 2019 he has been the first chairman of the German Society for Sport Psychiatry and Psychotherapy and since 2020 he has been an instructor in the IOC Programs in Mental Health in Elite Sport .

He is a member of the ISSP (International Society for Sports Psychiatry) and introduced sports psychiatry as a medical focus in German scientific literature in a 2011 publication. In 2019, the basics of sports psychiatry were published for the first time in a German-language book.

Publications (selection)

  • Mental stress and illnesses in competitive sport. In: Der Neurologe und Psychiater, 2011/1, ISBN 978-3-608-43206-0 , pp. 8-10.
  • with Karl J. Bär Mental health in competitive sports. Schattauer, 2019, ISBN 978-3608-43206-0 .
  • (Ed.), With Karl J. Bär: Sport and movement therapy for mental illnesses. Schattauer, 2014, ISBN 978-3-608-42993-0 .
  • Sport psychiatry and psychotherapy. Mental strains and disorder in professional sports. Challenge and answer to societal changes. In: Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci, 2011 Nov, 261 Suppl 2, pp. 182-185.
  • with Karl-Jürgen Bär: Sport specificity of mental disorders: The issue of sport psychiatry. In: Eu Clin Neurosci Arch Psychiatry, October 2013, 263 Suppl 2: pp. 205-210.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ IOC Programs in Mental Health in Elite Sport. Retrieved on August 19, 2020 (English).
  2. ↑ Sport psychiatry and psychotherapy. Mental strains and disorder in professional sports. Retrieved on August 21, 2020 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Markser, Valentin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Markser, Valentin Zdravko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor specializing in sports psychiatry
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Kunišinci , Croatia