Andreas Heinz

Andreas Heinz
Andreas Heinz
Born	1960-02-04 (1960-02) (age 55) Stuttgart, Germany
Occupation	Psychotherapist

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

Life

Andreas Heinz studied medicine, philosophy and anthropology in Bochum at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, in Berlin at the Freie Universität Berlin and at the Howard University of Washington D.C. Dissertation (MD) 1988 at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum Anthropological and Evolutionary Models in Schizophrenia Research. Afterwards he worked as a post-doc at the National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD. He qualified for professorship (Habilitation) in psychiatry and psychotherapy in 1998 The Dopaminergic Reward System.^[1] PhD 2013 in philosophy The Concept of Mental Health ^[2] at the faculty of philosophy of the Universität Potsdam.

Since 2002 Heinz has been the director of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Campus Charité Mitte Berlin.^[3] Since 2012, he has been the vice chair of an organization for Psychiatric Reform and Humanization, the Aktion für Psychisch Kranke.^[4] From 2010 to 2014, he was the president of the German Society for Biological Psychiatry (DGBP). From 2008 to 2011, he was the speaker of the Conference of University Chairs of Psychiatry in Germany. Since 2009, he has been a member of the board of the German Association for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Neurology.^[5] He is the leader of several research projects including the international research project “Mental Health and Migration”.^[6] He is a proponent of a person centered approach and open wards in psychiatry.^[7]

In 2011 he was elected as a Leibnitz chair at the Leibnitz-Institute for Neurobiology in Magdeburg, in recognition of outstanding research in Neuroscience.^[8] For fall semester 2014/2015 he was nominated as Karl-Jaspers guest professor at the University of Oldenburg.^[9]

Heinz is the editor of several books including the Practice of Intercultural Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Migration and Mental Health and the author of more than 400 scientific publications including studies focussing on psychiatry in national socialism, critical neuroscience and the neurobiology of psychotic and addictive disorders. Andreas Heinz is the grandson of the former president of the employment office of the state of Baden-Württemberg, Eugen Heinz.

Honors

• Wilhelm-Feuerlein-Forschungspreis 2000; Division Fundamental Research; Topic: Die Rolle der serotonergen Funktionsstörung in der Entstehung und Aufrechterhaltung der Alkoholabhängigkeit
• June 2011: Granting of the „Leibniz Chairs“ by the Leibniz-Institute for Neurobiology (LIN) Magdeburg for excellent research in the field of neurosciences
• November 2011 (together with Dr. Anne Beck) and 2014 (together with Dr. Lorenz Deserno): Granting of the Hans-Heimann-Prize by the German Society of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Psychosomatic Medicine and Neurology (Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik und Nervenheilkunde)
• Since 2013: Member of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz^[10]
• Since 2015: Member of the Leopoldina – National Academy of Sciences^[11]

Memberships

Profession Organisations

• Board member of the European Psychiatric Association, since 2013
• Deputy Chairman of Aktion Psychisch Kranke e.V. (APK), since 2012; Member and Member of the council since 2007
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Leibnitz-Institutes for Neurobiology (IfN) Magdeburg since 2010
• Member of the concil of the German society of Psychiatry, Psychotherapie and Neurology (DGPPN) since 2009
• Speaker of the German Conference of Chairs of Psychiatric University Departments 2008–2011
• Member of the Association of European Psychiatrists (AEP) since 2000
• Member of the Society for Nuclear Medicine since 1999
• Member of the German Association for Neuropsychopharmakology and Pharmacopsychiatry (AGNP) since 1999
• Member of the Society for Neuroscience since 1995
• Member of the Berlin Society for Philosophy and the Science of Psychiatry. Organizer of the Seminar "Schizophrenia and language" since 1994
• Member of the German Society for Clinical Neurophysiology since 1994
• Member of the German Society for Hypnosis (DGH), since 1989
• Member of the German Medical Association (Deutsche Ärztekammer), since 1/1988

As a scientific reviewer

• Member of the Editorial Board of “Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation” since 2013
• Member of the Editorial Board of „Journal of Dual Diagnosis“since 2012
• Member of the Advisory Board of “Pharmacopsychiatry” since 2010
• Member of the Advisory Board of „Deutsches Ärzteblatt“ the journal of the German Chamber of Medical Doctors since 2009
• Member of the International Board of “Psychiatrie & Psychotherapie”, the journal of the Austrian Society of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy since 2006
• Member of the Advisory Board of „Der Nervenarzt“, the journal of the German Society of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Neurology since 2003
• Member of the Advisory Board of „Sucht“ [Addiction], the journal of the German Association against Addictive Disorders (DHS) since 2001
• Member of the Advisory Board of „European Psychiatry,“ the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists (AEP) since 2000
• Member of the Advisory Board of „Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs“ 2000–2013

Work

• Andreas Heinz (1998), "Das dopaminerge Verstärkungssystem: Funktion, Interaktion mit anderen Neurotransmittersystemen und psychopathologische Korrelate" (in German), Monographien aus dem Gesamtgebiete der Psychiatrie (Darmstadt: Steinkopff Verlag) 
• Heinz, Andreas (1998), "Colonial practices in the construction of the schizophrenic patient as primitive man", Critique of Anthropology 18: 421–444, doi:10.1177/0308275x9801800404 
• Andreas Heinz (2002), T. Heise, J. Schuler, ed., "Anthropologische und evolutionäre Modelle in der Schizophrenieforschung" (in German), Das transkulturelle Psychoforum (Berlin: Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung) 
• Andreas Heinz, D. F. Braus, M. N. Smolka, J. Wrase, I. Puls, D. Hermann, S. Klein, S. M. Grüsser, H. Flor, G. Schumann, K. Mann, C. Büchel (2005), "Amygdala-prefrontal coupling depends on a genetic variation of the serotonin transporter", Nature Neuroscience 8: 20–21, doi:10.1038/nn1366 
• Andreas Heinz, Wielant Machleidt, ed. (2010) (in German), Praxis der interkulturellen Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie: Migration und psychische Gesundheit, München: Urban & Fischer Verlag/Elsevier, ISBN 978-3-437-24570-1 
• A. J. Heinz, A. Beck, A. Meyer-Lindenberg, P. Sterzer, Andreas Heinz (2011), "Cognitive and neurobiological mechanisms of alcohol-related aggression", Nature Reviews Neuroscience 12: 400–413, doi:10.1038/nrn3042 
• U. Lang, S. Hartmann, S. Schulz-Hartmann, Y. Gudlowski, R. Ricken, I. Munk, D. von Haebler, J. Gallinat, Andreas Heinz (2010), "Do locked doors in psychiatric hospitals prevent patients from absconding?", European Journal of Psychiatry 4/24: 199–204 
• Andreas Heinz, Ulrike Kluge, ed. (2012) (in German), Einwanderung - Bedrohung oder Zukunft Mythen und Fakten zur Integration, Campus Verlag 
• Andreas Heinz, Gernot Ernst, ed. (2013) (in German), Die widerspenstige Materie Neues aus der Naturwissenschaft und Konsequenzen für linke Theorie und Praxis, Schetterling Verlag 
• Andreas Heinz, ed. (2014) (in German), Der Begriff der psychischen Krankheit, Suhrkamp/Insel Verlag 

References

External links

• CV and publications Andreas Heinz
• internetandpsychiatry.com
• Berlin School of Mind and Brain
• Häufigkeit, Ursachen, Risikofaktoren und Therapiemöglichkeiten Interferon-alpha assoziierter Depressionen
• neuroscience-berlin.de
• neurocure.de
• Berlin Institute for Empirical Research on Integration and Migration (BIM)