Wielant Machleidt

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Wielant Machleidt (born in Kiel in 1942 ) is a German psychiatrist and psychoanalyst . From 1994 to 2007 he held the chair for social psychiatry at the Hannover Medical School and was director of the department for social psychiatry and psychotherapy. His research focuses on transcultural psychiatry and migration research .

Life

After studying medicine, Wielant Machleidt completed his specialist training as a psychiatrist and further training as a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst. In 1975 he completed his doctorate at the Free University of Berlin . In 1982 he completed his habilitation at the Medical University of Hanover. This was followed by the appointment of C2 professor at the social psychiatry department there. In 1988 he was appointed to a professorship at the University of Cologne and was Deputy Medical Director of the Psychiatric Clinic at the University of Cologne.

In 1994 he succeeded Erich Wulff at the Hannover Medical School, where he held the chair for social psychiatry until 2007 and headed the department for social psychiatry and psychotherapy as medical director. The focus of his research and publications is intercultural psychiatry and psychotherapy and research into the experiences of migration and flight from a psychoanalytic perspective.

From 1994 to 2010 he was head of the department for transcultural psychiatry and migration of the German Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Neurology (DGPPN) and is honorary chairman of the Hanover Ethnomedical Center (EMZ).

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His research on transcultural psychiatry emphasizes the need for culturally sensitive psychotherapy that takes cultural differences into account and reflects them psychoanalytically. He assumes that the experience of foreignness is an anthropological constant and a ubiquitous human phenomenon. He compares the process of migration and integration with the developmental tasks of puberty and the earlier phases of individuation, as described by Margaret Mahler , and speaks in the context of real migration experiences of a cultural adolescence , which should be mastered as a new developmental task. The poles of identity and belonging would have to find a new balance. How the earlier phases could be managed plays an important role individually. In his opinion, the need to do this task again can therefore also be an opportunity for the individual. At the same time, it is taken into account that trauma in the event of flight or displacement complicates the psychological processing possibilities. In addition, with his reflections and experiences as a psychiatrist, he demonstrates the need for psychotherapeutic help for people with migration and refugee experiences. For the psychotherapists, he calls for an examination of their own experiences of foreignness and their processing so that the countertransference that arises in such therapies can be appropriately included and not become an obstacle to the therapeutic process.

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • Daily rhythm and periodic components of the time structure of the alpha [band] and theta band in the resting EEG. Dissertation Berlin, Free University Berlin 1975.
  • Emotional experience in the electroencephalogram, a contribution to the biological and social foundation of psychodynamic processes. Habilitation thesis at Hannover Medical School 1982
  • with Leopold Gutjahr and Andreas Mügge: Basic Feelings: Phenomenology - Psychodynamics - EEG Spectral Analysis. Springer Verlag: Berlin, Heidelberg 1989
  • with Klaus Hoffmann (ed.): Psychiatry in comparison with cultures: Contributions to the 1994 symposium of the transcultural psychiatry section of the DGPPN in the Center for Psychiatry Reichenau. VWB-Verlag ISBN 978-3861351313
  • et al. (Ed.) Transcultural assessment: Quality assurance of social judicial and social medical assessment for migrant workers in Germany. VWB-Verlag ISBN 978-3-8613-5130-6
  • et al. (Ed.) Schizophrenia - an affective disorder ?: Basics, phenomenology, psychodynamics and therapy. Schattauer Verlag 1999. ISBN 978-3-7945-1994-1
  • Father and daughter: emotional landscapes of a relationship. Deutscher Studienverlag; 4th edition 1994 ISBN 3-892-71319-7
  • Migration, culture and mental health: meeting the foreign. (Lindau contributions to psychotherapy and psychosomatics. Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 2013 ISBN 978-3-1702-2184-0 )
  • Growing old in a foreign country. In: Psychotherapie im Alter 2015, 12 (3), pp. 309–323

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wielant Machleidt: Daily rhythm and periodic components of the time structure of the alpha [band] and theta band in the resting EEG. Dissertation Berlin, Free University Berlin 1975.
  2. ↑ Wielant Machleidt: Emotional experience in the electroencephalogram, a contribution to the biological and social foundation of psychodynamic processes. Habilitation thesis at Hannover Medical School 1982.
  3. ↑ Biography at Psychiatrie-Verlag . Retrieved August 16, 2018
  4. ↑ Biography at The German Prevention Day . Retrieved August 16, 2018
  5. ^ Wielant Machleidt: Migration, Culture and Mental Health: Meeting the Foreign. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2013.
  6. ↑ Lecture on Migration, Culture and Mental Health. Lindau Psychotherapy Weeks. April 2007 . Retrieved August 20, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Machleidt, Wielant
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
DATE OF BIRTH 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel