Walter Pöldinger

Walter J. Pöldinger (born May 31, 1929 in Vienna ; † July 15, 2002 ) was an Austrian psychiatrist .

Pöldinger studied medicine , anthropology and psychology at the University of Vienna from 1947 to 1953 . In 1968 he received his habilitation in psychiatry at the University of Basel , where he was medical director of the Psychiatric University Clinic (PUK) and full professor of psychiatry from April 1, 1985 to September 30, 1994 .

In 1983 he received the Hans-Prinzhorn-Medal of the German-speaking Society for Art & Psychopathology of Expression eV (DGPA) .

Publications (selection)

• Depression as a life crisis: and when people fall silent in their agony ... , Basel, Switzerland: Ed. Roche, 1997, ISBN 978-3-907770-71-9
• The unspoken: what people talk too little about , Basel: Verlag Promedas, ISBN 978-3-952112-40-3
• I never change my nose: seeing, being seen and making visible when portraying and in psychotherapy , Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1996, ISBN 978-3-498-02940-1
• Index psychopharmacorum , Bern / Stuttgart / Toronto: Huber Verlag, 1990, ISBN 978-3-456-81770-5

literature

• Brigitte Zöller: Encounters: a conversation with Walter Pöldinger. Springer, Vienna / New York 1994, ISBN 3-211-82575-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Walter Pöldinger in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Franz Müller-Spahn : In memoriam: Prof. Dr. med. Walter Pöldinger (1929–2002). (PDF; 222 kB) In: Swiss Medical Journal . Vol. 83 (2002), No. 45, p. 2409.
2. ↑ DGPA