Holger Bertrand Flöttmann

Holger Bertrand Flöttmann is a German neurologist, psychiatrist and a doctor for psychosomatic medicine. Flöttmann is known for his scientific research in dream symbols, in borderline personality disorder, in the psychotherapeutic process and anxiety. He is also renowned for his expansion of the concept of symbiosis and his psychoanalytical works about fascism, terrorism and other actual themes about civilisation. Dr. Flöttmann works in the centre of dream research and anxiety disorders, 24105 Kiel, Lornsenstr. 30, Germany.

Biography

Early life

Flöttmann was born as the third of seven children by the married couple [http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=wilhelm+fl%C3%B6ttmann&meta= Wilhelm Flöttmann] and Ingeborg Flöttmann, born Tinzmann. He visited the Evangelisch Stiftische Gymnasium in Gütersloh. In the age of 14 years, he studied during the Easter holidays Freud's Dream analysis. Other books about psychoanalysis from S. Freud and A. Adler followed. After the high school diploma Flöttmann fulfilled the alternative civilian service from 1966 until 1968 in the Von Bodelschwinghschen Anstalten Bethel in Bielefeld in the house Arimathia. During this time he finished the training in a health care assistant. Flöttmann married in the year 1982, out of this marriage came three children.

Medical training

From 1968 until 1974 Flöttmann studied medicine in Kiel, Germany, from 1976 until 1977 he worked in the Universitäts–Frauenklinik, Kiel, in the Hospital of Oldenburg/Holstein and in the Städtische Krankenhaus Ravensburg as a medicinal assistant.

In the clinic Alpenblick Neutrauchburg he qualified in psychoanalysis and depth psychology from 1976 until 1977. At the same time he trained in Munich at the "Institut for Group and Family Therapy", transactional analysis und Gestalt therapy. In the years 1977 from 1983 proceeded the qualification for the consultant of neurology and psychiatry on the university hospital for psychiatry and neurology in Kiel.

He acquired the title psychotherapy in 1982, the title psychotherapeutic and psychosomatic medicine in the year 1998. [ [http://wilhelm-griesinger-institut.de/uu/hbf.html Curriculum Vitae of Holger Bertrand Flöttmann] ] Flöttmann is authorized by the medical association for the advanced training in the title psychotherapy.

Scientific work

The dream research takes centre stage of Flöttmann's scientific practice. On this field, he is reputed to be an accounted expert. [ [http://www.aeksh.de/SHAE/2004/200410/rezensionen.html Ärztekammer Schleswig-Holstein] ] Since 1986 he has deposed 35.415 dreams in a specific database: Dr. Flöttmann's Scientific Encyclopedia of Dream Symbols. [ [http://www.dreamsymbols.org dreamsymbols.org] ] This Encyclopedia includes 1.452 dream symbols. [ [http://www.wilhelm-griesinger-institut.de/ Wilhelm Griesinger Institut] ] It is steadily updated.

If the symbol "hedge" exists 111 times within 35.415 dreams e.g., these 111 dreams are extracted by the computer. Then the scientist analyzes each dream. The great experience of the researcher with dream analysis and the language of the unconsciousness helps to understand the sense of these dreams as well as the personal knowledge of the explored dreamers. The broad fundament of this scientific work builds Dr. Flöttmann's qualification in medicine, in psychoanalysis, in depth psychology, psychiatry, neurology, psychosomatic medicine, gestalttherapie, graphology, philosophy, phrenology and physiognomy.

Publications

* Steuerrecht des Lebens Novum-Verlag, Horitschon 2006, ISBN 978-3-902514-53-0
* Angst-Ursprung und Überwindung. Fifth Edition, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-17-018754-6
* Träume zeigen neue Wege. Second Edition, Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-525-46194-1

References

External links

* http://dispatch.opac.d-nb.de/DB=4.1/REL?PPN=120701952
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