Jochen Fahrenberg

Jochen driving Berg ( born September 18, 1937 in Berlin ) is a German personality psychologist and psycho- physiologist.

Life

Jochen Fahrenberg studied psychology in Freiburg, London and Hamburg, and in 1962 received his doctorate with a thesis on Graphometrie. After a research assistant in the Cardiovascular Clinic Bad Oeynhausen in 1966 joined the Habilitation Psychophysiological personality research. With his retirement in 2002, his dual role ended up as head of the Department of Personality Psychology and as a project manager (along with Michael Myrtek ) of the Research Group Psychophysiology Department of Psychology, Albert -Ludwigs- University of Freiburg.

Work

As the successor to the chair of hot Robert, the founder of the Institute of Psychology and characterology (1944 - 1966), he coined the structure and fate of the Institute of Psychology, Albert -Ludwigs- University of Freiburg over a period of more than 30 years. With its research strategy, the haunting philosophical discourse as well as a recognized early professionalization and practice orientation of psychology he combined in a central, often conflictual themes in the history of psychology in Freiburg.

The laboratory was founded in 1970 by Jochen riding mountain and Michael Myrtek funded by the Volkswagen Foundation Research Group Psychophysiology was first in Schillhof, then placed generously in the Belfort road. In its 35 - year existence it was engine for multivariate Activation Research ( scores of psychophysical processes), psychophysiological personality research, research on cardiovascular rehabilitation, illness behavior and life satisfaction as well as practice-oriented behavioral studies using ambulatory assessment (monitoring). In particular, the cardiovascular psychophysiology was in many very extensive laboratory and field studies with the development of methods, critical theory checks - of biological personality research to psychosomatic medicine - and the demonstration of new application perspectives in the center of receiver position interdisciplinary, psycho- physiological work. She belonged in this field in the top group of international research. Jochen receiver position psychodiagnostic work culminated in the development of various personality questionnaires, including the personality questionnaires most commonly used in the German language, the Freiburg Personality Inventory FPI, and the Freiburg complaints list, a resource for the medical and psychological diagnosis.

Writings

Jochen riding mountain called in 1972 the " Workshop for psychophysiological methodology " (APM ) to life, from 1982, has emerged " German Society for Psychophysiology and its Applications " ( DGPA ). The Freiburg meetings for Ambulatory Assessment 2009 led to the formation of the international " Society for Ambulatory Assessment - Understanding Behavior in context. "

A selection of writings:

  • Psychophysiological personality research. Hogrefe, Göttingen in 1967.
  • With Rainer Hampel and Herbert Selg: The Freiburg Personality Inventory FPI -R with new normalization. Hand statement. ( 1st edition 1970), 8th edition, Hogrefe, Göttingen, 2010.
  • And employees: Activation research in the laboratory -field comparison for the prediction of intensity and patterns of psychophysical activation processes during repeated mental and physical stress. Minerva publication, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-597-10531-9.
  • Psychophysiological individuality: A pattern analytic approach to personality research and psychosomatic medicine. In: Advances in Behaviour Research and Therapy. 1986, Volume 8, pp. 43-100.
  • Complementarity in psychophysiological research. Principles and research practice. In: E. P. Fischer, H.S. Herzka and K. H. Reich ( ed.): Conflicting reality. New thinking in science and everyday life. Complementarity and dialogic. Piper, Munich 1992, pp. 43-77, ISBN 3-492-11554-3.
  • Michael Myrtek (ed.): Ambulatory assessment. Computer-assisted psychological and psychophysiological methods in monitoring and field studies. Hogrefe & Huber, Seattle, WA 1996 ISBN 0-88937-167-9.
  • Michael Myrtek (ed.): Progress in ambulatory assessment. Hogrefe & Huber, Seattle, WA 2001, ISBN 0-88937 225 X.
  • Psychological interpretation. Biographies - Texts - tests. Huber, Bern 2002, ISBN 3-456-83897-2.
  • Assumptions about the people. People images from a psychological, biological, religious and intercultural perspective. Asanger -Verlag, Heidelberg Kröning 2004, ISBN 3-89334-416-0.
  • Michael Myrtek: psychophysiology laboratory, clinic and everyday life. 40 years project work of the Freiburg Research Group Psychophysiology - Comments and New Perspectives. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-631-54229-1.
  • Brain and consciousness. Neuro Philosophical controversies. In: Siegfried Gauggel and Manfred Herrmann (Eds. ): Handbook of neuroscience and biopsychology. Hogrefe, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-8017-1910-4, pp. 28-43.
  • People pictures. Psychological, biological, cross-cultural and religious views. Psychological and Interdisciplinary Anthropology. e - book 2007.
  • Wilhelm Wundt's theory of science. An attempt at reconstruction. In: Psychological Rundschau, Volume 63 (4 ), 2012, pp. 228-238.
  • To Category teaching of psychology. Complementarity. Perspectives and prospects changes. Pabst Science Publishers, Lengerich, 2013, ISBN978 -3 89967-891 -8.
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