Prof. emeritus Dr. med. Dr. h. c. Helmut Thomä
∗6. Mai 1921 ✝ 3. August 2013
Helmut Thomä, Ordinarius für Psychotherapie der Universität Ulm von 1967 bis 1989, erhielt den Wissenschaftspreis der Stadt Ulm, den Sigmund Freud Preis der Stadt Wien sowie den Mary S. Sigourney Award der Amerikanischen Psychoanalytischen Gesellschaft; seine Arbeitsschwerpunkte lagen in der Psychoanalyse, Psychotherapie und psychosomatischen Medizin.
Bücher
Psychoanalytic Therapy
Conversational analysis has turned out to be the salient feature to understand what promotes change in the psychoanalytic situation. This significant aspect of the first edition of this textbook is expanded in the second edition presenting prominent examples of contemporary process and outcome research fulfilling the criteria of evidence-based medicine.
Psychoanalytic Therapy
The principles underlying psychoanalytic technique and their impact on practice are the main objects of this comprehensive and systematic study, which is based on research in psychoanalysis. After descriptions of the development of psychoanalysis, chapters are devoted to comprehensive accounts of the key concepts of the psychoanalytic therapy – transference, countertransference, and resistance – as well as to the initiation and conduct of treatment, to the role of models, and to the scientific status of psychoanalytic theory.