Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil. Thomas Fuchs
Medical/Professional background
Karl Jaspers Professor of Philosophical Foundations of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Head of the section Phenomenological Psychopathology and Psychotherapy
Chairman of the German Society for Phenomenological Anthropology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (DGAP)
Head of research centre of the Karl Jaspers complete edition of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences
Fellow at the Marsilius-Kolleg (Center for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies) University of Heidelberg
Head of the "Philosophical Foundations" Unit of the German Society for Psychiatry (DGPPN)
Senior Physician at the Psychiatric University Hospital Heidelberg,
Head of the section "Phenomenological Psychopathology and Psychotherapy"
Specialist in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Psychiatric training at the Technical University of Munich
Scientific background
Habilitation in Philosophy at the University of Heidelberg:
Karl Jaspers Professor of Philosophical Foundations of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University of Heidelberg
Professor of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University of Heidelberg
Habilitation in Psychiatry at the University of Heidelberg
Doctorate in medical history:
"The mechanization of the heart. Harvey and Descartes"
Doctorate in Philosophy:
"Body, space, person. Design of a phenomenological anthropology"
Studies of Medicine, Philosophy and History of Science
Commendations
Annual Award of the University of Heidelberg for Research, Teaching and Promotion of Young Talent
Academy Award of the Evangelical Academy Bad Herrenalb
Egnér Prize of the Dr. Margrit von Egnér Foundation
Grants
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:
- Psychopathology: Managing Editor-in-Chief
- Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology
- Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
Scientific work priorities
Phenomenology and Cognitive Neurosciences
Theory and Ethics of Psychiatry and Medicine