Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil. Thomas Fuchs
Head of Division
(Section Phenomenological Psychopathology and Psychotherapy)
Attending Physician
(Day Clinic Blankenburg)
Medical/Professional background
Karl Jaspers Professor of Philosophical Foundations of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
- since 1997
Head of the section "Phenomenological Psychopathology and Psychotherapy":
- Coordinator of the Marsilius project "Embodyasment as a Paradigm of Evolutionary Cultural Anthropology"
- Head of research centre of the Karl Jaspers complete edition of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences
- Chairman of the German Society for Phenomenological Anthropology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (DGAP)
- since 2008
Fellow at the Marsilius-Kolleg (Center for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies) University of Heidelberg
- since 2004
Head of the "Philosophical Foundations" Unit of the German Society for Psychiatry (DGPPN)
- since 1997
Senior Physician at the Psychiatric University Hospital Heidelberg,
Head of the section "Phenomenological Psychopathology and Psychotherapy"- 1995
Specialist in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
- 1989 – 1996
Psychiatric training at the Technical University of Munich
Scientific background
- 2010
Habilitation in Philosophy at the University of Heidelberg:
Karl Jaspers Professor of Philosophical Foundations of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University of Heidelberg
- since 2005
Professor of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University of Heidelberg
- 1999
Habilitation in Psychiatry at the University of Heidelberg
- 1990
Doctorate in medical history:
"The mechanization of the heart. Harvey and Descartes"
- 1999
Doctorate in Philosophy:
"Body, space, person. Design of a phenomenological anthropology"
- 1981 – 1988
Studies of Medicine, Philosophy and History of Science
Commendations
- 2014
Annual Award of the University of Heidelberg for Research, Teaching and Promotion of Young Talent
- 2013
Academy Award of the Evangelical Academy Bad Herrenalb
- 2012
Egnér Prize of the Dr. Margrit von Egnér Foundation
Grants
- 1995 – 1997
DFG Habilitation Scholarship
Professional memberships
Chairman of the Board of the German Society for Phenomenological Anthropology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (DGAP)
German Society for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Neurology (DGPPN)
Board of Directors of the Karl Jaspers Society (Basel)
German Society for Phenomenological Research (DGPF)
Society for New Phenomenology (GNP)
Psychopathology Section of the European Psychiatric Association (AEP)
Psychopathology Section of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA)
International Network of Philosophy and Psychiatry (INPP)
Offices and posts held
Member of the Editorial Board of International Scientific Journals:
Scientific work priorities
Phänomenologische Psychologie, Psychopathologie und Anthropologie
Phenomenology and Cognitive Neurosciences
Theory and Ethics of Psychiatry and Medicine