Andreas Heinz
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Andreas Heinz
Andreas Heinz, MD PhD, is the director and chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, one of the most renowned university medical centres in Germany. Heinz is a board member of both the German and the European Association for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy.
Andreas Heinz, MD PhD, is the director and chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, one of the most renowned university medical centres in Germany. Heinz is a board member of both the German and the European Association for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy.
PUBLICATIONS
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Year of Publication: 2023
Andreas HeinzYear of Publication: 2023
The Colonized Brain and the Ways of Revolt
The modern understanding of brain function and mental illness is deeply shaped by the projection of colonial hierarchies onto the brain: supposedly higher brain centres and functions are attributed with the supervision of supposedly primitive drives and desires. Mental illness was long understood as a loss of this domineering control, and those affected were left at the mercy of power techniques...
Year of Publication: 2014
Andreas HeinzYear of Publication: 2014
The Concept of Mental Disorders
The revision of pivotal handbooks for the diagnosis and classification of mental disorders stimulated lively discussions on how long a person may grieve after the death of a close relative without being diagnosed with clinical depression.
In this debate, the patients’ entitlement to being treated and their fear of pathologisation and patronisation has to be taken...
In this debate, the patients’ entitlement to being treated and their fear of pathologisation and patronisation has to be taken...