Paul Thomas Mann was a German novelist,short story writer,social critic,philanthropist,essayist,and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas are noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized versions of German and Biblical stories,as well as the ideas of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,Friedrich Nietzsche,and Arthur Schopenhauer.
Horst Werner Buchholz was a German actor who appeared in more than 60 feature films from 1951 to 2002. During his youth,he was sometimes called "the German James Dean". He is perhaps best known in English-speaking countries for his roles as Chico in The Magnificent Seven (1960),as a communist in Billy Wilder's One,Two,Three (1961),and as Dr. Lessing in Life Is Beautiful (1997).
Nossrat Peseschkian lived in Germany since 1954. He was a specialist in neurology,psychiatry,psychotherapy and psychosomatic medicine. Peseschkian founded Positive Psychotherapy in 1968,based on a cross-cultural approach;he was also the founder of the Wiesbaden Academy of Psychotherapy (WIAP),a German-state-licensed,postgraduate institute of psychotherapy.
Hans Heinze,sometimes referred to as Euthanasie-Heinze,was a Nazi German psychiatrist and eugenicist.
Frieda Fromm-Reichmann was a German psychiatrist and contemporary of Sigmund Freud who immigrated to America during World War II. She was a pioneer for women in science,specifically within psychology and the treatment of schizophrenia. She is known for coining the now widely debunked term Schizophrenogenic mother. In 1948,she wrote "the schizophrenic is painfully distrustful and resentful of other people,due to the severe early warp and rejection he encountered in important people of his infancy and childhood,as a rule,mainly in a schizophrenogenic mother".
Daniel Kehlmann is a German-language novelist and playwright of both Austrian and German nationality.
Aaron Lazare was the Chancellor and Dean of University of Massachusetts Medical School,Worcester,Massachusetts,from May 15,1991,to March 15,2007. He died on July 14,2015,from complications of kidney cancer.
Confessions of Felix Krull is an unfinished 1954 novel by the German author Thomas Mann.
Johann Friedrich Karl Asperger was an Austrian physician. Noted for his early studies on atypical neurology,specifically in children,he is the namesake of the autism spectrum disorder Asperger syndrome. He wrote more than 300 publications on psychological disorders that posthumously acquired international renown in the 1980s. His diagnosis of autism,which he termed "autistic psychopathy",also garnered controversy. Further controversy arose during the late 2010s over allegations that Asperger referred children to a Nazi German clinic responsible for murdering disabled patients,although his knowledge and involvement remains unknown.
Carl Schneider,professor at Heidelberg University,(1933–1945) chairman of its department of Psychiatry,director of its clinic,was a senior researcher for the Action T4 euthanasia program.
Johannes Heinrich Schultz was a German psychiatrist and psychotherapist. Schultz is known for the development of autogenic training.
Positive psychotherapy is a psychotherapeutic method developed by psychiatrist and psychotherapist Nossrat Peseschkian and co-workers in Germany beginning in 1968. This humanistic psychodynamic psychotherapy is based on a positive conception of human nature. PPT is an integrative method which includes humanistic,systemic,psychodynamic and CBT-elements. Today there are centers and trainings in some twenty countries worldwide. It should not be confused with positive psychology.
Wolfgang Wodarg is a German physician and politician. He was a member of the Bundestag for the SPD from 1994 to 2009.
Jürgen Leo Müller is a German medical specialist for neurology and psychiatry. He is a professor for forensic psychiatry and psychotherapy at the University of Göttingen as well as chief physician for forensic psychiatry and psychotherapy at the Asklepios Clinic in Göttingen. His particular scientific interest lies in the empirical research of forensically relevant disorders with a particular focus on personality disorders,psychotherapy as well as violent and sex offenders. In addition to that he places special emphasis on the usability of empirical techniques to responding legal questions.
Robert Habeck is a German Green politician and writer who has been serving as Vice Chancellor of Germany,Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action in the cabinet of Chancellor Olaf Scholz and as a Member of the German Bundestag for Flensburg –Schleswig since 2021. From 2018 to 2022,he also served as co-leader of Alliance 90/The Greens,alongside Annalena Baerbock. For the 2021 German federal election,he was a member of the leading duo,alongside Baerbock,who ran for chancellor of Germany.
Hans-Ulrich Wittchen is a clinical psychologist,psychotherapist and epidemiologist. He has been a head of the Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy and the Center of Clinical Epidemiology and Longitudinal Studies (CELOS) at the Technische Universität Dresden. Since 2018,he is leading the research group "Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy Research" at the Psychiatric Clinic of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and directs the IAP-TU Dresden GmbH in Dresden.
Curt Gerhard Westphal,stage name Gert Westphal,was a German-Swiss actor,audiobook narrator,recitator and director,one of the best-known audiobook narrators and speakers in German,described as "König der Vorleser" and "der Caruso der Vorleser". After his reading of her husband's works,Katia Mann called him "des Dichters oberster Mund". The literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki said he was probably the best reciter of German.
Dietfried Müller-Hegemann was a German physician specialising in Psychiatry,Psychotherapy,Psychoanalysis and Neurology. Despite having joined the Communist Party in 1930,he was able to pursue his medical studies and career after 1933,becoming a military "staff doctor" when war broke out in 1939. Between 1944 and 1948 he was held as a prisoner of war by the Soviets. After that he was able to resume his medical career in the Soviet occupation zone / German Democratic Republic,achieving eminence both as a senior hospital physician and as a professor with the teaching chair in Psychiatry and Neurology at the prestigious Karl-Marx University in Leipzig. Following a falling out with the authorities he relocated to the German Federal Republic in 1971,pursuing his clinical career in Essen,while in the short term retaining an academic strand to his work as a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
Stephan Zipfel is a German professor for psychosomatic medicine at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. He is currently Chair and Head of Department of Internal Medicine VI at the University Medical Hospital in Tübingen and Vice Dean of the Medical Faculty. He specializes in eating disorders and is the Director of the Centre of Excellence for Eating Disorders (KOMET) at the University Hospital.
Stefan Brunnhuber is a German author,psychiatrist,economist and sociologist who works on sustainable development and transformation strategies,following an interdisciplinary approach. He is a former senator of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA) and currently a trustee of the World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS),as well as a full international member of the Club of Rome.
