Thomas Martin Schneider
My Maxim & My Scientific Credo – Calmness, Empathy, Professionalism …
and for the experts among you: My own scientific credo was originally biological reductionism and functionalism (F. H. Crick, E. Kandel, C. Koch -currently number one in the worldwide ranking of neuroscientists-, G. Tononi) as well as behaviorism (I. P. Pavlov, J. B. Watson, H. F. Harlow, B. F. Skinner).
I come from a time when one – especially as a medical doctor – still had to complete analyst training to work as a psychotherapist. Back then, I also had to undergo a so-called self-analysis. The training lasted five long years.
I worked during the day in intensive care medicine and administered anesthesia (“drove” anesthetics) because that training had to be paid for privately at the time. It initially cost 20,000 DM, and later even more.
One of my teachers in depth psychology was Eugen Drewermann, one of two very great analysts (luminaries) we had in Germany back then. At that time, he was known to all viewers through media, radio, and television (e.g., Maybrit Illner) and only trained five private students.
I spent my school years at the boarding school and high school “Collegium Augustinianum Gaesdonck” near Goch on the Lower Rhine. After that, I completed training as a male nurse and subsequently worked as an operating room assistant (surgical assistant) in a hospital in Isselburg-Anholt – assisting in 548 operations as the second sterile assistant, primarily in general and abdominal surgery.
Professional Vita and Training
- Since 2000 Own practice for psychotherapy in 48268 Greven
- 1995-1999 Own practice for psychotherapy in 48301 Nottuln
- 1991-1994 Nursing at Raphaelsklinik Münster – Internal Medicine
- 1986-1990 Assistant Physician – Evangelisches Krankenhaus Wesel – Neurology and Pathology
- 1983-1985 Director of Nursing (PDL) at the private psychiatric large clinic St. Georg Gelsenkirchen-Buer – Long-term Psychiatry
- 1982-1983 Assistant Physician at Fachklinik Hornheide – Münster – Dermatology / Psycho-oncology
- 1980-1982 Assistant Physician at St. Agnes-Hospital – Bocholt – Anesthesia and operative intensive care medicine
- 1977-1979 Lecturer for History of Medicine, Nursing, and Hygiene at the Vocational School for Health Professions in Bocholt
(concurrent with medical studies) - 1976-1977 Student Auxiliary Staff in the surgical operating theater at Augustahospital Isselburg-Anholt
- 1975-1976 Student Auxiliary Staff at Marien-Hospital Wesel – Clinical Chemistry Laboratory
In addition, from 1984–1988, I completed vocational depth psychological training with self-analysis.
Training in Biological Psychology, as a foundation for BT (Behavioral Therapy):
- I. P. Pavlov (USSR), B. F. Skinner (USA) „Behavioristic Psychology“ etc.
Training in Sexual Medicine:
- Basic research: Alfred C. Kinsey / Functional Sexual Disorders and Therapies: William Masters and Virginia Johnson (USA)
- Homosexuality: Hans Giese / Statistics on Sexual Habits: Gunter Schmidt (Hamburg, Frankfurt) ; Sexual and Couples Therapy according to the so-called „Hamburg Model“: Volkmar Sigusch (Hamburg, Frankfurt)
Patent in Medical Technology for Safety Syringe (1988) with the Trademark „Syritec“ (TM)
- (The utility model was adopted by the international pharmaceutical company „Glaxo-Smith-Kline“ after the patent protection expired)
United Color of Pain
- A special project and lecture series on „The colorful picture of somatoform pain in psychosomatics“ or „The facets of pain“