Wulf Bertram

Wulf Bertram (born March 31, 1948 in Soest / Westphalia) is a doctor , psychologist , psychotherapist , publishing director and author .

Life

As a child, Bertram moved with his family to Milan , where he attended the German school abroad and learned Italian as a second mother tongue. He graduated from high school in 1968 at the Wilhelm Gymnasium in Hamburg . There he studied psychology with sociology as a minor and from 1972 also medicine . After graduating in psychology, state examination and doctorate in medicine, he first worked for a few years as a clinical psychologist in the day clinic of the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) with Klaus Dörner and Ursula Plog . He then went to a research grant from the German Academic Exchange Service to study the Italian form of psychiatry and its consequences as an assistant doctor in a social psychiatric service in Bibbiena ( Arezzo province ). Michael von Cranach then brought him to his clinic in Kaufbeuren in 1983 , where he continued his psychiatric and psychotherapeutic training.

In 1986 he received the offer to head the medical textbook program of the Urban & Schwarzenberg publishing house in Munich . In 1988 he moved to Stuttgart's Schattauer Verlag as scientific director and later as managing director. In 2017 the Schattauer Verlag was sold to the Thieme publishing group , a year later the psychosomatic, psychotherapeutic and psychiatric program area went to the Klett-Cotta Verlag in Stuttgart , for which Bertram continues to work as a publishing consultant.

In addition to his publishing activities, Bertram continues to work as a psychotherapist in his own practice to this day. He is trained in counseling psychotherapy according to Rogers (certificate from the Society for Person-Centered Psychotherapy and Counseling eV GwG), behavior therapy and psychodynamic psychotherapy (additional title psychotherapy of the Bavarian Medical Association 1986)

In 1992 he founded the Academy for Integrated Medicine together with Thure von Uexküll and others, of which he has been a member of the executive board as General Secretary. He is also a board member of the Society for Research and Therapy of Personality Disorders (GePs) and a member of several psychotherapeutic / psychosomatic specialist societies.

Bertram has published several books and writings on topics in social psychiatry , family therapy , psychosomatic medicine and neurobiology . He publishes the paperback series “Knowledge and Life” published by Schattauer.

In 2016 he published the children's book "Der Igel Frederik" with the illustrator and caricaturist Bernhard Siller at cmz-Verlag.

Awards

• 2018: Dr. Margrit Egnér Foundation for Bertram's life's work
• 2019: Honorary member of the Munich Academy for Transfer-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP)

Fonts (selection)

Books and book contributions:

• W. Bertram: Relatives work. Family therapy for everyday psychiatric practice. Psychologie Verlags Union, Munich / Weinheim 1986.
• T. v Uexküll, R. Adler, W. Bertram, A. Haag, JM Hermann, K. Köhle (eds.): Integrated psychosomatic medicine in practice and clinic. 2nd Edition. Schattauer, Stuttgart 1992. (3rd edition. 1994)
• W. Bertram: The Academy for Integrated Medicine - an interdisciplinary institution against the prevailing dualism. In: B. Hontschik, T. v Uexküll (ed.): Psychosomatics in surgery. Schattauer, Stuttgart 1999.
• M. Spitzer, W. Bertram: Braintertainment - Expeditions into the world of mind and brain. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 2008.
• M. Spitzer, W. Bertram: Brain research for the new (ro) greedy. Schattauer, Stuttgart 2013.
• A. Buchheim, W. Bertram: How attachment changes the brain. In: K. Gaschler, A. Buchheim (Hrsg.): Children need closeness. Spectrum of Science / Schattauer Verlag, Stuttgart / Heidelberg 2012.
• B. Hontschik , W. Bertram, W. Geigges (eds.): In search of the lost art of healing - building blocks of integrated medicine. Schattauer, Stuttgart 2013.
• M. Spitzer , W. Bertram: Hirngespinste - the best stories about our most important organ . Schattauer, Stuttgart 2020

Journal articles in specialist and popular journals, etc. a .:

• W. Bertram: From medical dualism to integrated medicine. In: Medical Psychotherapy. 3/2014.
• W. Bertram: Almond kernel and expectation of salvation. In: Medical Psychotherapy. 1/2013.

Children's book

• W. Bertram: The hedgehog Frederik. with illustrations by Bernhard Siller. Rheinbach, CMZ-Verlag 2016.

Web links

• Literature by and about Wulf Bertram in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website by Wulf Bertram