Wolfgang Ernst (doctor)

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Wolfgang Ernst (2013)

Wolfgang Ernst (born September 3, 1939 ) is a German neurologist , psychiatrist and non-fiction author. With his publications he pursues a neuro-linguistically oriented research approach to clarify the effects of historical and modern “word therapy”.

Live and act

After attending school in Dresden , Ernst studied medicine at the Universities of Freiburg im Breisgau and Munich . He then completed specialist training at the Psychiatric Clinic and at the Institute for Clinical Neurophysiology at the University of Freiburg . As a neurologist and psychotherapist in his own practice, Ernst worked from 1973 to 1979 in Weiden in the Upper Palatinate and from 1979 to 2002 in Bremen .

As a result of his decades of occupation with ethnology and folklore and with the help of his extensive collection of performative texts and rites (healing formulas, magic spells ), Ernst has been pursuing an interdisciplinary approach to determining the evidence of the effectiveness of words and word figures in the human brain since the end of his practice . His question is: Under what conditions can healing words really “arrive” in the brain centers and contribute to therapy?

Fonts (selection)

Books

  • Healing magic and superstition in the Upper Palatinate. The Sauernloher custom book (= Upper Palatinate rarities. Vol. 7). Stangl + Taubald, Weiden 1991, ISBN 3-924783-10-1 .
  • with Ulrike Ernst: Parksteiner Legends. Experienced and told from yesterday and today (= East Bavarian legend landscapes. Vol. 1). Collected and written down (...) with memories of rural folk medicine without a doctor. Bodner, Pressath / Oberpfalz 2007, ISBN 978-3-926817-56-3 .
  • The large six-office magic book and its lay pharmacists and lay doctors. In the footsteps of the Röslauer "forest men" of the 18th century with text examples from their magic and recipe book. [Spells, rites and recipes. Secret doctors and forest men in the Fichtelgebirge.] Späthling, Weißenstadt 2007, ISBN 978-3-926621-55-9 .
  • The Upper Palatinate folk medicine from the Franz Xaver von Schönwerth collection reflected in its healing magic formulas. An edited regional micro-historical documentation; with an introduction to the history of the magic culture as folk verbal therapy. [Saying and rite in popular verbal therapy in the Schönwerth Collection in the 19th century]. Bodner, Pressath 2008, ISBN 978-3-937117-69-0 .
  • Incantations and blessings. Applied psychotherapy in the Middle Ages. Böhlau, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-412-20752-6 .
  • Brain and spell. Archaic and medieval healing texts and their natural active components. With a foreword by Volker Faust . PL Acad. Research, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-631-64591-8 , doi: 10.3726 / 978-3-653-03833-0 .

Essays

  • Poor soul belief today. An investigation into tradition, topicality and mental dynamics of the poor-souls-belief. In: Oberpfälzer Heimat . 24: 100-118 (1980).
  • The art book by Johannes Zahn von Dürnberg near Wunsiedel. A handwritten magic book from the end of the 17th century. In: Archive for the history of Upper Franconia . 76: 169-195 (1996), et al. 77: 295-344 (1997).
  • Mary helped - where human help is lost. The Fuchsmühler Miracle Book. In: home district Tirschenreuth. Vol. 10 (1998), pp. 117-134.
  • The mountain spirit of Altenparkstein - the last devil's ally? In: Augsburger Volkskundliche Nachrichten. Vol. 4 (1998), H. 2, pp. 10-35, urn : nbn: de: bvb: 384-opus4-11552 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Neumaier: Review. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 19, 2011.
  2. ↑ Helga Maria Wolf (Red.): Review. Austria Forum , January 12, 2012.
  3. ↑ Albrecht Classen: Review (PDF) In: Mediaevistik , Volume 25, 2012, p. 202 f.
  4. ↑ Jürgen Bärsch: Review. In: Archives for Liturgical Studies, Volume 58/59. 2016/2017, p.368f, July 19, 2018
  5. ^ Albrecht Classen: Review. In: Mediaevistik. Volume 27, 2014, pp. 278-281, JSTOR 24616179 .
  6. ↑ Sylvie Denke, Alissa Theiß: "Do you only know the magic word ...". Wolfgang Ernst studies the effects of magic spells on the human brain. In: literaturkritik.de . August 10, 2015. Review.
personal data
SURNAME Ernst, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neurologist, psychiatrist and book author
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1939