Burkhart Brückner
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Burkhart Brückner, Prof. Dr., born 1962, is a German psychologist and psychotherapist. He works at Hochschule Niederrhein University of Applied sciences and is specialized on the history of psychiatry, clinical social psychology and counseling psychology. In the years 2000/2001 he worked for W.O.W-Productions as psychological consultant during the scriptdevelopment of the film "My Brother Tom" (GB 2002; Director: Dom Rotheroe; Producer: Carl Schönfeld; Starring: Jenna Harrison; Ben Wishaw). In 2007 he published his major work "Delirium und Wahn. Geschichte, Selbstzeugnisse und Theorien von der Antike bis 1900" ("Delirium and Delusion. History, Personal Accounts and Theories from Antiquity to 1900") which contains a history of madness "from below" in two volumes and mainly bases on historic first-person-accounts. In 2010 he published "Geschichte der Psychiatrie" ("History of Psychiatry"; 2nd ed. 2015). In 2015 his team launched the online database "Biographical Archive of Psychiatry". He lives in Düsseldorf, Germany.