Andreas Heinz

Andreas Heinz ( born February 4, 1960 in Stuttgart ) is a German psychiatrist and psychotherapist.

Life

Andreas Heinz studied medicine, philosophy and anthropology at the Ruhr- University Bochum, at the Free University of Berlin and at Howard University, Washington DC. He received his Ph.D. in 1988 in Bochum MD with a thesis on the anthropological and evolutionary models of schizophrenia research. Subsequently, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD. In 1998 he was awarded the doctorate at the Free University of Berlin with the Scriptures The dopaminergic reinforcement system for psychiatry and psychotherapy.

Heinz is since 2002 director of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Campus Charité Mitte, Berlin, President of the German Society of Biological Psychiatry ( DGBP ). From 2008 to 2011 he was speaker of the Standing Conference of the Chair of Psychiatry in Germany. Since 2009 he has been assessor Transcultural Psychiatry, Addiction Medicine, the Board of the German Society for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Neurology. and project manager in the international research project " Mental Health and Migration". Since 2012 he has been Deputy Chairman of the Action Mentally Ill, an association for mental health reform. It represents a person-centered orientation and opening of psychiatry. In 2011 he was appointed on the basis of special research achievements for Leibniz Chair at the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology Magdeburg. 2013 doctorate Heinz at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Potsdam with the work, the term mental illness, Dr. phil.

Heinz is the editor of the textbook "The Practice of Intercultural Psychiatry & Psychotherapy. Migration and Mental Health " and author of numerous scientific publications on psychiatry under the Nazis, critical neuroscience and neurobiology of psychosis and alcohol disorders.

Andreas Heinz is a grandson of the former president of the state employment office, Baden- Württemberg Eugen Heinz.

Awards

  • Wilhelm Feuerlein Research Award 2000; Basic Research Topic: The role of serotonergic dysfunction in the development and maintenance of alcohol dependence
  • June 2011: Presentation of the " Leibniz Chairs" by the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology ( LIN) Magdeburg for excellent research achievements in the field of neuroscience
  • November 2011: Presentation of the Hans Heimann Prize of the German Society for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy

Memberships

Professional associations

  • Member of the German Medical Association, since 1/1988
  • Member of the German Society of Hypnosis Association ( DGH ), since 1989.
  • Member of the German Society for Clinical Neurophysiology, since 1994.
  • A member of the Society for Neuroscience (SNM ), since 1995.
  • A member of the Berlin Society for Philosophy and the Science of Psychiatry. Organizers of the seminar " Schizophrenia and language", since 1994.
  • Member of the Association for Neuropsychopharmacology and Pharmacopsychiatry ( AGNP ), since 1999.
  • A member of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, since 1999.
  • A member of the European Psychiatric Association, the Association of European Psychiatrists to 2010 (AEP ) was called since 2000.
  • Speaker of the Standing Conference of the Chair of Psychiatry in Germany, since 2008.
  • Board member of the German Society for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Neurology ( DGPPN ) for university psychiatry since 2009.
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology ( Neurobiology ) Magdeburg, since 2010.
  • Deputy Chairman of the Action Mentally Ill eV ( APK ), since 2012; Member and Board Member since 2007.

Review activity

  • Member of the advisory board of the journal "European Psychiatry " of the Association of Europea Psychiatrists (AEP ), since 2000.
  • Member of the Advisory Board of the journal "Journal of Studies on Alcoholism ," since 2000.
  • Member of the editorial board of the journal "Addiction - Journal of Research and Practice " of the German Centre for Addiction Issues, since 2001.
  • Member of the advisory board of " The neurologist ", the journal of the German Society for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Neurology, the German Neurological Society and the German Stroke Society, since 2003.
  • Member of the International Board of " Psychiatry & Psychotherapy ," the magazine of the Austrian Society of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, since 2006.
  • Member of the advisory board of " German Medical Journal ", the journal of the German Medical Association, since 2009.
  • Member of the advisory board of " Pharmacopsychiatry ," since 2010.
  • Member of the Editorial Board of the journal "Journal of Dual Diagnosis ", since 2012.

Writings

  • Andreas Heinz: The dopaminergic reinforcement system: function, interaction with other neurotransmitter systems and psychopathological correlates. In: Monographs of the total areas of psychiatry. 100, Steinkopff Verlag, Darmstadt, 1998.
  • Andreas Heinz: Colonial practices in the construction of the schizophrenic patient as primitive man. In: Critique of Anthropology. No. 18, 1998, pp. 421-444.
  • Andreas Heinz: Anthropological and evolutionary models in schizophrenia research. In: T. Heise, J. Schuler (ed.): The Transcultural Psycho forum. Volume 9, Publisher of Science and Education, Berlin, 2002.
  • Andreas Heinz, DF Braus, MN Smolka, J. Wrase, I. Puls, D. Hermann, S. Klein, SM Grüsser, H. Flor, G. Schumann, K. Mann, C. Büchel: Amygdala - prefrontal coupling depends on a genetic variation of the serotonin transporter. In: Nature Neuroscience. No. 8, 2005, pp. 20-21, doi: 10.1038/nn1366.
  • Andreas Heinz, Wielant Machleidt (Ed.): Practical cross-cultural psychiatry and psychotherapy: Migration and mental health. Urban & Fischer Verlag / Elsevier, München 2010, ISBN 978-3-437-24570-1.
  • AJ Heinz, A. Beck, A. Meyer -Lindenberg, P. Sterzer, Andreas Heinz: Cognitive and neurobiological mechanisms of alcohol -related aggression. In: Nature Review Neuroscience. No. 12, 2011, pp. 400-413, doi: 10.1038/nrn3042.
  • Andreas Heinz, Ulrike Kluge ( ed.): Immigration - Threat or future Myths and Facts about integration. Oxford University Press, , 2012.
  • Andreas Heinz, Gernot Ernst ( ed. ): The New recalcitrant matter of the science and implications for leftist theory and practice. Schetterling Verlag, 2013.
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