Wolfgang Kämmerer

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Wolfgang Kämmerer (2020)

Wolfgang Kämmerer (born August 24, 1946 in Karlsruhe ) is a German internist , psychoanalyst and psychosomatic specialist and was head of the Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine at the Hospital of the Henrietten Foundation Hanover until 2009 (since 2016 Diakovere Henriettenstift Hospital ).

Live and act

Wolfgang Kämmerer was born into an academic family. He attended a humanistic grammar school and the Leibniz College . From 1967 to 1973 he studied human medicine in Stuttgart , Heidelberg and Vienna , most recently again in Heidelberg. He also completed a theology degree from 1972 to 1974 , which he did not complete. From 1968 to 1972 he was a student representative in the newly created committees for the reform of Heidelberg University . In 1974 he received his doctorate on the subject of "The possibility of percutaneous intoxication by 1,2-dichloroethane" .

After his license to practice medicine in 1976, he was an assistant doctor in the fields of pathology , gynecology and cardiology . From 1977 to 1983 he worked in the Department of Internal Medicine II - focus on general clinical and psychosomatic medicine - at the Medical Clinic of the Heidelberg University Hospital under the direction of Paul Christian and Peter Hahn . In 1983/84 he was an assistant doctor as part of the specialist training in the psychiatric clinic of the university hospital under Werner Janzarik .

From 1977 Kämmerer completed a psychoanalytical training in Heidelberg and completed it in Hanover, followed by further training in group analysis and family therapy. Since 1983 he has been a specialist in internal medicine, since 1984 with the addition of " psychotherapy " and " psychoanalysis ", since 1996 specialist in psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy.

From 1984 the establishment of the clinic for psychosomatic medicine at the hospital of the Henriettenstiftung Hannover, a teaching hospital of the Hannover Medical School (MHH), took place under his leadership . Kämmerer was in charge of the clinic until 2009. From 1985 onwards, an integrated internal psychotherapeutic concept was developed there for the inpatient treatment of patients with acute and chronic psychosomatic illnesses, which is based on the work on focal short therapy of acute conflicts (up to 30 hours) by Michael Balint et al. as well as by Rolf Klüwer from the 1950 / 60s.

Since 1980, Kämmerer has also been involved in various teaching activities in the fields of clinical psychosomatics and focal therapy. He has been a lecturer in psychosomatic medicine at the MHH since 1987. He was also a lecturer and supervisor at the Institute for Psychotherapeutic Education and Training (IPAW) of the MHH, the Academy for Integrative Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy & Psychosomatics Hamburg (APH), the Hanover Institute for Psychotherapy at the Winnicott Institute (HIPP-WI) and the psychosomatic further and advanced training within the scope of the Lower Saxony Medical Association . Advisory and lecture activities in the Hanover working group for psychosomatics and psychotherapy e. V. (HAPP).

Kämmerer has been working in his own practice in Hanover since 2009, offering individual, group and family therapies.

Scientific focus

Kämmerer made scientific contributions to the symbolization of the body in the body image, its importance for the psychodynamic understanding of the formation of symptoms in psychosomatic patients and their focal treatment as well as to self-psychology and the intersubjective access to dreams . He also dealt with the microtraumatisation of gifted and gifted people and their treatment.

He published on topics of integrated clinical-psychosomatic diagnostics and therapy, methodological problems of psychosomatic symptom formation, the relationship between body, body image and language, physical symbolization, the implicit axioms of the understanding of illness by doctor and patient, psychosomatic cardiology and various internal diseases, self psychology as well as psychodynamic short and focal therapy.

Memberships (selection)

  • European Federation Psychoanalytic Selfpsychology
  • German College for Psychosomatic Medicine (DKPM)
  • German Society for Psychosomatic Medicine (DGPM)
  • Academy for Integrative Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy & Psychosomatics Hamburg (APH)
  • Academy for Integrated Medicine
  • German Balint Society
  • Academy of Sexual Medicine
  • Scientific advisory board of the Hanover working group for psychosomatics and psychotherapy e. V.

Fonts (selection)

  • A headache. In: Ernst Petzold, Achim Reindell (Ed.): Clinical Psychosomatics. UTB. Quelle & Meyer, Heidelberg 1980, ISBN 3-494-02115-5 , pp. 164-169.
  • Psychological prodromes of coronary disease. In: W. Langosch (Ed.): Psychological coping with chronic heart disease . Springer, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-540-15356-X , pp. 12-23.
  • Communication and cooperation opportunities with diabetics from a psychosomatic point of view. In: R. Klußmann (Ed.): Metabolism. The patient with obesity, anorexia nervosa, bulimia, diabetes mellitus, gout . Springer, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-540-18264-0 , pp. 87-100.
  • Implicit axioms in clinical psychosomatics - presented using the diagnosis and therapy of functional syndromes. In: W. Huber, E. Petzold, T. Sundermeier (Eds.): Implizite Axioms. Deep structures of thinking and acting . Verlag Christian Kaiser, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-459-01840-2 , pp. 58-78.
  • Psychosomatic medicine or conventional medicine. Alternative or addition. In: K. Jork (ed.): Alternatives in medicine . Hippokrates Verlag, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-7773-1037-9 , pp. 73-85.
  • Clinical psychosomatic medicine in the hospital of the Henriettenstiftung. In: Th. V. Uexküll, R. Adler et al. (Ed.): Integrated psychosomatic medicine in practice and clinic . Schattauer, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-7945-1582-X , pp. 279-290.
  • For the treatment technique of the so-called body image disorder in functional diseases . In P. Hahn, A. Werner (Ed.): Model and method in psychosomatics . Deutscher Studien Verlag, Weinheim 1994, ISBN 3-89271-443-6 , pp. 212-215.
  • The psychosomatic dialogue as a “cleaning speech”. Bringing the tension between the sick body and the person to talk. In: F. Buer (ed.): Yearbook for Psychodrama, Psychoziale Praxis & Gesellschftsppolitik . Loske & Budrich, Leverkusen 1996, ISBN 3-322-95849-3 .
  • as editor: body symptom and psychotherapy. How to deal with the symptom. Theory and Clinic of Psychoanalytic Psychosomatics and Focal Therapy. 2nd, expanded edition. VAS, Frankfurt, ISBN 978-3-88864-228-9 .
  • From the body to speech. Metaphor, symbolization and reality in psychosomatic dialogue. In: R. Bernhardt, U. Link-Wieczorek (Ed.): Metaphor and Reality . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-525-56192-X , pp. 277-289.
  • The focus in psychosomatic dialogue. Special features of focus-centered inpatient short-term therapy with psychosomatic patients. In: R. Klüwer, R. Lachauer (Ed.): The focus. Perspectives for the future . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-525-46025-2 , pp. 65-83.
  • Touching, speaking, remembering - self-psychological aspects of psychosomatic dialogue. In: Self Psychology. Volume 15, No. 1, 2004, pp. 103-126.
  • In search of the word that touches. Intersubjectivity and focus in psychosomatic dialogue . Springer, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-662-47887-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d HAPP - Hanover Working Group for Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy e. V. Accessed May 12, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Hannover Medical School | MHH - IPAW. Retrieved May 14, 2020 .
  3. ^ Directory of the supervisors at the Institute for Psychotherapeutic Education and Training (IPAW) at the MHH. Retrieved May 14, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Winter semester program of APH gGmbH 2019: November 15. Lecture by Wolfgang Kämmerer: "Intersubjectivity and the answer to the patient's address" and on November 16 Workshop for the lecture and Supervision. S. 5. Retrieved May 14, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Winnicott Institute: Course Catalog SS 2018: p. 30 u. 32. Retrieved May 14, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Langeoog Psychodynamic Days; June 10-14, 2019 "The I is primarily a physical one". Wolfgang Kämmerer Seminar: Understanding means answering. P. 26 and P. 39. Retrieved May 14, 2020 .
  7. ↑ HAPP - Hanover Working Group for Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy e. V. Retrieved May 14, 2020 .
  8. ↑ lecture v. W. Kämmerer on February 26th, 2020 at HAPP: Being different makes you sick? Retrieved May 14, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Chamberlain, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German internist, psychoanalyst and psychosomatic specialist
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe