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).
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.
Karl Wilhelm Lauterbach is a German scientist,physician,and politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD),who has served as Federal Minister of Health since 8 December 2021. He is professor of health economics and epidemiology at the University of Cologne. Since the 2005 German federal election,he has been a member of the Bundestag.
Confessions of Felix Krull is an unfinished 1954 novel by the German author Thomas Mann.
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 his co-workers in Germany beginning in 1968. PPT is a form of humanistic psychodynamic psychotherapy and based on a positive conception of human nature. It is an integrative method that includes humanistic,systemic,psychodynamic,and cognitive-behavioral elements. As of 2024,there are centers and training available in twenty countries. 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.
Norman Sartorius is a German-Croatian psychiatrist and university professor. Sartorius is a former director of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Division of Mental Health,and a former president of the World Psychiatric Association and of the European Psychiatric Association. He has been described as "one of the most prominent and influential psychiatrists of his generation" and as a "living legend".
Christian Heinrich Postel was a German jurist,epic poet and opera librettist,who wrote 28 libretti for the Oper am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg:set by composers such as Johann Philipp Förtsch,Reinhard Keiser and Georg Philipp Telemann. His texts for a St John Passion were set by composers Christian Ritter,Johann Mattheson and Johann Sebastian Bach in their respective St John Passion.
Carl-Heinz Rodenberg,sometimes known as Karl-Heinz Rodenberg was a German neurologist and psychiatrist. Rodenberg was proficient in the murder of mental patients by the Nazis,the Action T4 "euthanasia" program,and from 1943 was scientific director of the Reich Central Office for the Combating of Homosexuality and Abortion.
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.
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.
Wolfgang Maier is a German psychiatrist and psychotherapist.
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.
