Rainer M. Holm-Hadulla
Rainer Matthias Holm-Hadulla (born September 22, 1951) is a German professor of psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine, psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. Life. Holm-Hadulla studied medicine and philosophy at the Universities of Marburg, Rome, and Heidelberg. During the period from 1976 until 1978, he worked as an assistant doctor. Since 1979 until 1986, he became a specialist in psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy and an assistant professor at Heidelberg University. From 1986 until 2016, he was the director of the counseling service for students at Heidelberg University and worked as a psychiatrist, psychotherapist and psychoanalyst in private practice . In 1996, he became an associate professor for psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic medicine at Heidelberg University. In 2009, Holm-Hadulla was appointed as a distinguished fellow to "Morphomata", International Center of Excellence for Advanced Studies at Cologne University. In 2010, he was appointed as a distinguished fellow to "Marsilius-Kolleg", Center of Excellence for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies at Heidelberg University. In 2011, he became a visiting professor at the Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago de Chile. In 2015, he was appointed to the Academia Argentina de Ciencias, Psychoanálisis y Psiqiuatría. Moreover, Holm-Hadulla frequently gave scientific lectures in North-America, South-America  and China. Since 2017, Holm-Hadulla is the director of the Heidelberg Institute for Coaching. He continues to teach at Heidelberg University and works as a supervisor and a training-analyst. He is a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA). He also teaches as a visiting professor at national and international universities, e.g. the Pop-Academy Baden-Württemberg, Mannheim. His main areas of research are counseling, psychotherapy and creativity. He continuously informes about practical applications of his research in broadcast and radio stations, newspapers and journals. Dialectical theory of creativity. Holm-Hadulla developed with his colleagues a dialectical theory  of creativity. It starts with the antique concept, that creativity takes place in an interplay between order and chaos. Similar ideas can be found in neurosciences and psychology. Neurobiologically, it can be shown that the creative process takes place in a dynamic interplay between coherence and incoherence that leads to new and usable neuronal networks. Psychology shows how the dialectics of convergent and focused thinking with divergent and associative thinking leads to new ideas and products. Also creative personality traits seem to be contradictory, e.g. openness and selfishness, chaotic and disciplined attitudes, despondency and exuberance. Holm-Hadulla described the dialectics  of creative personality traits on behalf of extraordinary personalities like Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Robert Schumann, Jim Morrison, Madonna Ciccone and Mick Jagger. His dialectical theory of creativity applies also to counseling and psychotherapy. Works. Selected papers. The following papers are available from MedLine, PsycInfo and Research Gate: