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Critical Neuroscience
One focus of our research is a critical reflection of the paradigms and their underlying basic anthropological assumptions applied in research. This includes a critique of anthropological and neurobiological categories (e.g. reification of ethnic differences via controversial constructs such as "race"), a critical reflection of models of mental disorders and their interaction with contemporary ideologies (e.g. before World War I or during NS) and an ethnological and sociological reflection on knowledge generation and predominant research strategies in psychiatry and neuroscience.
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Head, Center of Cross-Cultural Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (ZIPP) and Research Division Intercultural Migration and Care Research, Social Psychiatry
Selected Publications
Heinz A, Müller DJ, Krach S, Cabanis M, Kluge UP (2014) The uncanny return of the race concept. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 8:836.
Heinz A, Müller DJ, Kluge U (2011) "Race"- warum alte Begriffe keine neuen Perspektiven haben. Journal für Neurologie, Neurochirurgie und Psychiatrie, 12 (2): 168-174.
Heinz A, Müller DJ, Kluge U (2010) Rassen und Rassismen. In: Machleidt W, Heinz A. Praxis der Interkulturellen Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie. Migration und psychische Gesundheit. Elsevier, Urban &Fischer. München. S. 75-83
Heinz A, Kluge U (2010) Ethnologische Ansätze in der transkulturellen Psychiatrie. In: Machleidt W, Heinz A. Praxis der Interkulturellen Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie. Migration und psychische Gesundheit. Elsevier, Urban &Fischer. München. S. 27-32
Heinz A, Kluge U (2010) Anthropological and evolutionary concepts of mental disorders. Journal of speculative philosophy; 24 (3): 292-307.
Heinz A, Napo F (2008) Fallstricke evolutionärer (Selbst-) Bewusstseinsmodelle. In: Ganten D, Gerhardt V, Nida- Rümelin J (Hrsg) Funktionen des Bewusstseins. Walter de Gruyter Verlag, Berlin: 245-265.
Heinz A (2002) Anthropologische und evolutionäre Modelle in der Schizophrenieforschung. In: Heise T, Schuler J (Eds) Das transkulturelle Psychoforum. Band 9. Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung, Berlin.
Heinz A, Heinze M (1999) From pleasure to anhedonia - forbidden desires and the construction of schizophrenia. Theory Psychol 9:47-65
Rothenberg J, Heinz A (1998) Meddling with monkey metaphors – capitalism and the threat of impulsive desires. Soc Justice 25:44-64.
Heinz A (1998) Colonial perspectives in the construction of the psychotic patient as primitive man. Crit Anthropol 18:421-444.
Gebhardt T, Heinz A, Knöbel W (1996) Die gefährliche Wiederkehr der "gefährlichen Klassen". Kriminol Journal 28:82-106.