Holger Bertrand Flöttmann

Holger Bertrand Flöttmann (* 1946 in Gütersloh ) is a German neurologist, psychiatrist and psychotherapist as well as non-fiction author. He has worked as a medical specialist on which he founded in Kiel " Wilhelm Griesinger Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics " as its director.

Life

Holger Bertrand Flöttmann was born in 1946 as the third of seven children of Ingeborg Flöttmann, born Tinzmann and Wilhelm Flöttmann in Gütersloh / Westphalia. His father was a pharmaceutical chemist and translator, his mother lab assistant and later head of the Inlingua language school in Gütersloh. Coined by the Protestant education at the Evangelical Stiftisches Gymnasium Gütersloh. He refused to perform military service. He spent his service period 1966-1968 in Bethel in the house Arimathea. The training to become a nurse assistant specializes in epilepsy and psychiatry.

He married 1982. From this marriage three children were born.

Work

From 1968 to 1974 Flöttmann graduated from medical school in Kiel and was until 1975 a medical assistant. 1976 to 1977 he trained in psychoanalysis / depth psychology at the Psychosomatic Clinic Neutrauchburg / Isny on. Parallel was in Munich at the Institute for group and family therapy training in Transactional Analysis and Gestalt therapy. 1977-1983 found the training to become a specialist in neurology and psychiatry held at the University Psychiatric Clinic of Kiel. In 1982 he gained the additional title Psychotherapy, 1998 Specialist in psychotherapeutic medicine. Flöttmann is weiterbildungsermächtigt for the additional title psychotherapy by the Medical Chamber of Schleswig -Holstein. In 1991 he founded the Wilhelm Griesinger Institute and the Centre for Anxiety Disorders and dream research.

The fear and dream research is at the center of scientific activity Flöttmanns, he is regarded here as an expert. Since 1986, its staff ( Dr. Flöttmann 's Scientific Encyclopedia of Dream Symbols ) have 43,000 dreams laid down in a dream database. This encyclopedia contains 1,833 scientifically examined dream symbols. He is also the author of the nonfiction book "Dreams show new ways ." Flöttmann lectures at home and abroad.

Holger Flöttmann also upholds the family network one, a family- political, Christian- conservative advocacy group of committed against non-family childcare.

Controversy

Published in 2005, Holger Flöttmann as a guest author at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung article " The desire for a child." In this, the magazine Emma, he had " ... at the modern, working women a " Infantilneurose " diagnosed together with " withered souls " and a big" rejection potential against the family with verdienendem father, cherish nut and children. " Flöttmann have blamed for it besides the personal Infantilneurose capitalism, socialism and feminism, as well as Alice Schwarzer and Simone de Beauvoir.

In response, Alice Schwarzer in 2006 published the article " Who is Dr. Flöttmann? ". Thereupon Flöttmann decided on a case before the Hamburg District Court. The Emma lost the case in 10 of the 12 requested items.

In an interview with the boy's freedom in 2006 Flöttmann said: " The virulent feminism, the excessive consumption and narcissistic individualism cause children hostile forms of life in men and women " and that " the massive, collective and depressive self- devaluation of the German national feeling, the fertility of the German impaired. " According Flöttmann would be the mostly childless feminists, the child's at no time at heart.

Publications

• Tax law of life, Novum Verlag, Wien, 2006, ISBN 978-3902514530
• Fear - Origin and overcome, carbon Hammer Verlag, Stuttgart 2011, 6th Edition, ISBN 978-3170217843
• Dreams up new horizons: Encyclopedia of the unconscious, BOD Verlag, Norderstedt 2011, 5th edition, ISBN 978-3842371972
• Dr. Flöttmann 's Scientific Encyclopedia of Dream Symbols, BOD -Verlag, Norderstedt 2012, ISBN 978-3848221356