Wolfgang Merkle

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Wolfgang Merkle

Wolfgang Merkle (born December 14, 1954 in Bad Saulgau in Upper Swabia ) has been chief physician and founder of the psychosomatic clinic at the Hospital of the Holy Spirit in Frankfurt am Main since 1996 .

education

He passed the Abitur in 1974 at the Salvatorkolleg in Bad Wurzach and then studied medicine at the University of Ulm . The focus was on anamnesis groups , patient-oriented medicine and psychosomatic medicine, with the latter being his focus. He worked in a group of student tutors who dealt intensively with psychosomatic medicine. During his studies, he received the Ascona Prize of the German Balint Society in 1977 .

Professional activities

hospital

He started his professional career in 1981 in the psychiatry department of Ulm University at the Günzburg District Hospital . Here he completed his training as a specialist until 1986 , interrupted from basic military service as a medical officer in the field of internal medicine . During this time he also received his doctorate . He then worked as an assistant doctor in the neurology department of the Günzburg district hospital until 1987 , and in 1988 passed the examination to become a specialist in psychiatry.

In October 1987 he became senior physician at the Psychosomatic Clinic of the Esslingen Municipal Hospitals , initially mainly in the consulting service and in the children's and youth ward, then also for the adult ward and in the ambulance service . From 1989 he became the permanent representative of the chief physician of the psychosomatic clinic. A year later he took over the outpatient psychotherapeutic care at the clinic. While working, he completed both psychotherapeutic and psychoanalytic training until 1993 , first in Ulm with Helmut Thomä and Horst Kächele , then in Tübingen with Heinz Henseler , which he completed in 1994. In 1996 he became a specialist in psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy.

In the same year he became chief physician of the psychosomatic clinic at the Hospital zum Heiligen Geist in Frankfurt, where he founded the corresponding clinic, initially with 16 full inpatient places. As a result, there was a considerable expansion of capacities. He co-founded the sponsoring association of the Psychosomatic Clinic eV at the Hospital of the Holy Spirit in Frankfurt am Main . His work focuses on psychosomatics , chronic pain syndromes , eating disorders , sexual disorders and somatoform disorders . A particular concern for him is access to the psychosomatically ill, who initially perceives his difficulties as physical complaints and must first be introduced to an understanding of the mind-body relationship through psychosomatic medicine. Merkle therefore repeatedly takes a position on the psychosomatic clinical pictures, their causes and their emergence in non-professional media and campaigns for understanding for those affected, in whom he wants to awaken and promote the conviction that their physical complaints are linked to conflicts, life history and trauma and only the handling of this problem provides relief. This requires an intensive multimodal approach with concentrative body therapy , art therapy , music therapy and primary care in medical treatment. In Hesse he made a significant contribution to the expansion of psychosomatic medicine in the general hospital.

Offices and memberships

Publications

  • Drug analgesia in patients with chronic cancer pain . Dissertation. Ulm 1981, OCLC 65272333 .
  • together with Ekkehard Gaus: Psychotherapy and psychosomatics in a general hospital - the current situation in Esslingen . In: Thure von Uexküll Thure among others: Integrated psychosomatic medicine in practice and clinic. 3rd edition Stuttgart 1994. ISBN 3-7945-1582-X , pp. 263-277.
  • together with Ulrich Tiber Egle: The somatoform pain disorder . In: Hessisches Ärzteblatt 2000/9, pp. 371–374.
  • Access to the patient with physical restraint Motivation for psychosomatic treatment . In: Psychotherapeut 2001/46, pp. 56–58.
  • together with Ulrich Tiber Egle: The somatoform pain disorder . In: Hessisches Ärzteblatt 2001/10, pp. 498–504.
  • together with Manfred Cierpka: Relationship diagnostics in patients with chronic pain conditions . In: Ulrich Tiber Egle et al. (Ed.): Manual of chronic pain: Basics, pathogenesis, clinic and therapy from a bio-psycho-social point of view. Schattauer-Verlag, Stuttgart, 2003, pp. 303-312. ISBN 3-7945-2045-9
  • together with Ralf Nickel: Inpatient psychosomatic therapy for chronic pain patients . In: Ulrich Tiber Egle et al. (Ed.): Manual of chronic pain: Basics, pathogenesis, clinic and therapy from a bio-psycho-social point of view. Schattauer-Verlag, Stuttgart, 2003, pp. 430-438. ISBN 3-7945-2045-9
  • Understanding people suffering from psychosomatic diseases. With body and soul . In: Psychotherapie und Seelsorge 2007/2, pp. 23–26.
  • together with PL Janssen and others: Guide to Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy. Oriented towards the further training guidelines of the German Medical Association . Cologne 2009.
  • Psychotherapies in institutions and psychosomatic care in Hessen . In: Jürgen Hardt (Ed.): Social responsibility and psychotherapy. Giessen 2006, pp. 127-141; 2nd edition: Giessen 2011, pp. 89-104.
  • “Bringing body and soul back together”. The accompaniment of psychosomatically suffering people . In: Psychotherapie und Seelsorge 2011/01, pp. 30–33.
  • together with Gerd Neidhart, Claas Drefahl and Anna Maria Taufkirch: Inpatient interdisciplinary multimodal pain therapy (IMS). Brief therapy as a turning point in the chronification process . In: Psychotherapie im Dialog 2012/3, pp. 43–46.
  • The symptoms of social change and the contemporary approach to them . In: Wolfram Schüffel (Hrsg.): Wartburg phenomenon health - an anthology of self-efficacy. Halle (Saale) 2012. ISBN 978-3-86237-697-1 , pp. 154-173.
  • A psychologist, a pastor and a rabbi think about what the soul is - and what it needs. "Then my soul will be healthy" - Part 1 . In: Health journal (supplement to FAZ and FNP ) v. December 8, 2012.
  • Treatment of chronically depressed patients in a day clinic . In: Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber among others: Chronic Depression. Understand - treat - explore. Göttingen 2013. ISBN 978-3-525-45168-7 , pp. 180-197.
  • Time-related illnesses. Symptoms in social change . In: Angela Taeger: Diagnosis: sick, prognosis: uncertain. About the life expectancy of diseases . 2013. ISBN 978-3-943441-11-6 , pp. 152-170.
  • together with Hansjörg Becker: Mental health and its importance for the world of work. What responsibility do companies have for their employees? / Timely precautions can prevent failures . In: From research 1/2014, pp. 42–45.
  • Women in the clinic - men in prison? Why are men less psychosomatic than women? In: Frankfurter Neue Presse v. 5th December 2014.
  • Why does psychoanalysis take so long? In: Psychotherapy and Pastoral Care 01/2015, p. 25.
  • Psychosomatic medicine with body and soul in the hospital . In: Klinikallianz Plus 2015/4, p. 4ff.

literature

  • Wolfgang Merkle . In: The lonely patient - advised and sold = 16th annual conference of the Thure von Uexküll Academy for Integrated Medicine (AIM) in Frankfurt am Main 10. – 12. November 2011 [conference program], p. 13.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ 1997: 20 more beds; 2004: 3 more beds and start of building day-care treatment (day clinic); 2006: Pain beds with integrated multimodal pain therapy together with the anesthesia department; 2007: Expansion of the clinic to 30 fully inpatient and 30 day clinic treatment places; 2008: Start of interdisciplinary multimodal pain therapy with 8 beds together with the anesthesia department; 2010: Extension of the day clinic to 50 places.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Merkle: Medicinal Analgesia , p. 86.
  2. ↑ Merkle: Stationary interdisciplinary multimodal pain therapy , p. 4.
  3. ↑ Gaus / Merkle: Psychotherapie und Psychosomatik , p. 294.
  4. ^ Homepage of the German Balint Society
  5. ↑ Merkle: Medicinal Analgesia , p. 86.
  6. ↑ See: Section “Publications”.
  7. ↑ Gaus / Merkle: Psychotherapie und Psychosomatik , p. 264.
  8. ↑ Homepage of the Friends of the Psychosomatic Clinic eV at the Hospital of the Holy Spirit Frankfurt am Main .
  9. ↑ dpa: Sick of boredom . In: Zeit Online v. June 26, 2010 (as of November 30, 2015); : Diagnosis Bore-out: When the job is boring, until the doctor comes . In: Homepage Die Welt v. January 2, 2012 (as of November 30, 2015); Boreout syndrome: When insufficient demands at work make you sick . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger v. May 15, 2015 (as of November 30, 2015).
  10. ^ Organizer of the Lindau Psychotherapy Weeks. In: lptw.de. Archived from the original on November 15, 2016 ; accessed on March 19, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Merkle, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, psychiatrist, psychosomatist and psychoanalyst
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Saulgau