Walter groom

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Walter Bräutigam (born September 9, 1920 in Frankfurt am Main ; † December 16, 2010 ) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist and pioneer of psychosomatic medicine in Germany.

Life

tomb

Walter Bräutigam originally wanted to study architecture in 1939 , but then studied medicine first in Göttingen and then in Halle . He then began a psychoanalytic training with training analysis with Fritz Riemann , which he completed in Munich . Walter Bräutigam is considered an important contemporary witness for psychoanalysis in the Third Reich . He wrote his doctorate on internal and neurological disorders in porphyria at the Medical Polyclinic in Munich. In 1948 he went to Heidelberg to Viktor von Weizsäcker , in order - initially unpaid - to complete further training in neurology with Paul Vogel and in psychiatry with Kurt Schneider . In 1950 he became an assistant to Alexander Mitscherlich in the department for psychosomatic medicine founded in the same year . In 1960 he was with Paul Christian in Heidelberg habilitation about psychotherapy from an anthropological point of view . In 1968 he succeeded Alexander Mitscherlich as head of the Psychosomatic Clinic at the University of Heidelberg until he retired in 1988.

The groom died on December 16, 2010. He is buried at the Dahlem forest cemetery.

Publications

Walter Bräutigam was co-editor of the scientific journals Der Nervenarzt , Psychotherapie Psychosomatik Medical Psychology and the Journal for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychoanalysis .

He was the author of several textbooks such as Psychosomatic Medicine. A brief textbook or forms of cooperation between somatic and psychosomatic medicine. Task - experiences - conflicts. and introduction to psycho-oncology .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Zvi Lothane : Power Politics and Psychoanalysis - an Introduction , published in: International Forum of Psychoanalysis, 12 (No 2-3): 85-37, 2003; special issue, Psychoanalysis and the Third Reich, Guest Editor Zvi Lothane, New York, USA (with a quote from Walter Bräutigam: Review of the year 1942. Considerations of a psychoanalytic training candidate at the Berlin Institute of the War Years , In: Psyche 38, 1984, p. 905-912).
  2. ^ History of Psychosomatics in Heidelberg. Retrieved March 24, 2018 .
  3. ^ Obituary at Heidelberg University
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Senf: Laudation: Walter Bräutigam for his 80th birthday In: Zeitschrift für Psychosomatic Medizin Vol. 46, 2000, pp. 223–225, ISSN 1438-3608 https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/10.2307/ 23870823.pdf
  5. ^ W. Bräutigam, C. Paul, M. von Rad: Psychosomatic Medicine. A brief textbook , Thieme 1997, 6th edition ISBN 978-3-13-498306-7
  6. ↑ W. Bräutigam (Ed.): Forms of cooperation of somatic and psychosomatic medicine. Task - experiences - conflicts. , Springer 1988, ISBN 978-3-540-50223-4
  7. ↑ Fritz Meerwein , Walter Bräutigam: Introduction to Psycho-Oncology . 5th edition. Huber, Bern 1998, ISBN 3-456-82916-7
personal data
SURNAME Groom, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neurologist and psychiatrist and pioneer of psychosomatics in Germany
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 2010