Wolfgang Reuter (theologian)

Wolfgang Reuter (* 1955 in Mettmann ) is a German Catholic theologian .

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After high school at Konrad-Heresbach High School in 1976, he studied from 1976 to 1981 theology in Bonn and Würzburg and graduated with a degree in theology. After training at the seminary in Cologne (1981–1983), he was ordained a deacon on June 27, 1982 . After the diaconate in Alt St. Pankratius (Cologne-Worringen) (1982/1983) he was ordained a priest on June 29, 1983. From 1983 to 1990 he worked as a pastor in community and hospital pastoral care. In 1987 he completed a clinical pastoral training in Heidelberg at the Institute for Clinical Pastoral Training. He became hospital priest and head of the clinical pastoral care at the Rheinische Kliniken and clinics of the Heinrich Heine University in 1990. From 1990 to 1999 he did psychoanalytic training in the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (GPP) in Düsseldorf and Munich . From 1990 to 1994 he worked in the pastoral psychology training of theology students of the Archdiocese of Cologne . While maintaining his professional obligations, he began the doctoral project with Walter Fürst at the chair for pastoral theology at the University of Bonn in 1993 , where he received his doctorate on November 12, 2003. He had his own practice for psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in 1995. From 1996 to 1999 he worked in training and further education at the Düsseldorf Psychoanalytic Seminar (PSD). On June 16, 1997, he received permission to practice healing-psychotherapeutic activity as a healing-practical psychotherapist according to the guidelines of the Ministry of Labor, Health and Social Affairs of North Rhine-Westphalia from February 25, 1993. From 1998 to 2013 he was a member of the board of directors Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (GPP). Since 1998 he has been involved in the additional qualification of pastoral services in pastoral care for the mentally ill and handicapped in the sponsorship of the North Rhine-Westphalian dioceses. In 1998 he was appointed pastor for the handicapped in the city dean's office in Düsseldorf while continuing to work as pastor in the Rheinische Kliniken. He was recognized as a psychoanalyst (GPP) on June 12, 1999. He headed the additional qualification of pastoral services in pastoral care for the mentally ill and disabled from 2003 to 2006 in the sponsorship of the Pastoral Workplace for People with Disabilities of the German Bishops' Conference . Since 2004 he has lectured at the Catholic Academy Die Wolfsburg . On October 1, 2005, he was appointed pastor in the psychiatric pastoral care in the Rhein-Kreis Neuss district dean, maintaining his previous duties. He was appointed coordinator on August 11, 2006 in the pastoral care of the handicapped for the Düsseldorf / Rhein-Kreis Neuss region in the Archdiocese of Cologne.

From 2007 to 2009 he headed the additional qualification of pastoral services in pastoral care for people with hearing and visual impairment, mental and multiple disabilities as well as mental illness and disability in the sponsorship of the Pastoral Work for People with Disabilities of the German Bishops' Conference. He completed his habilitation project (2008–2011) at the PTH Vallendar in pastoral theology on November 15, 2011. In the 2011/2012 winter semester he began teaching as a private lecturer for pastoral theology at the PTH Vallendar, where he was the chair for pastoral psychology from 2012 to 2014, which he took over as professor in the 2014 summer semester.

His work and research focus are pastoral psychological competence development, scientific-theoretical foundation in multidisciplinary openness, basics of healing-relational pastoral care, pastoral care in social and health care, pastoral care and psychotherapy, theology in dialogue with psychoanalysis and other psychological schools , pastoral psychology as a sub-area and basic dimension of practical theology and project: pastoral psychological aesthetics.

Fonts (selection)

• Healing pastoral care. A psychoanalytically oriented draft of pastoral care for the mentally ill (= theology and practice. Volume 19). Lit, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8258-7127-4 (also dissertation, Bonn 2003).
• Relational pastoral care. Psychoanalytic, cultural theoretical and theological foundation (= practical theology today. Volume 123). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 3-17-022239-2 (also habilitation thesis, PTH Vallendar 2011).

Web links

• PTH Vallendar