Paul Verhaeghe

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Full Name	Paul Verhaeghe
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	Nov 5, 1955(1955-11-05)
Age	69
Birthplace	Roeselare
Country	Belgium
Birth City	Flemish Region
Horoscope	Scorpio

Paul Verhaeghe Biography

Paul Verhaeghe is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on November 5, 1955 in Roeselare, Flemish Region, Belgium. Paul Verhaeghe (born in Roeselare 5 November 1955 in Roeselare) is Belgian professor of psychoanalysis and clinical psychology.

in 1998 Verhaeghe gained notoriety for publishing Liefde in the tijden of eenzaamheid (Love in the Time of Loneliness), an analysis of psychoanalysis of the postmodern relationship between man and woman. Despite the difficulties it was a huge success that was later translated into eight different languages. The book was published in 2008 as a altered edition of the novel was released in Bezige Bij, the Bezige Bij publishing house.

Until 2000, Verhaeghe mainly published articles in which he tried to combine the work of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan into a theory, which is useful according to psychoanalysts. With Over normaliteit en andere afwijkingen (2000), he tried to offer an alternative to the DSM diagnostic system; the U.S. edition of this book On Being Normal and Other Disorders received the Goethe Award. One point of special interest in this work is his redefinition of the neglected Freudian diagnostic category of “actual neurosis”. Here, the clinical category of actual pathology, where affect regulation, identity formation and (impaired) interpersonal relationships combine at the level of aetiology, is proposed to offer a more useful basis for the diagnosis and treatment of contemporary mental illness.

At the start of the new millennium, he turned his attention to the relation between social change and the explosive growth of mental disorders in combination with the ever-increasing dominance of psychodiagnostic labelling (DSM). In a keynote lecture in Dublin (2007) he stated that classical psychotherapy is disappearing because of the combined effect of DSM- diagnostics and the reduction of psychotherapy to evidence based practices. These ideas were further elaborated in his book Het einde van de psychotherapie (The End of Psychotherapy) (2009), which saw ten reprints in a short period of time.

While Paul Verhaeghe twice doctorated in psychology and is now a professor in psychology, he’s not an authorized psychologist. The profession is protected in Belgium following the law of November 8th of 1993. The procedure to be able to carry the title psychologist is straightforward for him. The reason why he doesn’t desire to wear this title is not known to the known to the public. This does however mean the psychologist is not legally bound by the code of ethics in the field of Belgian psychologists.

Paul Verhaeghe Net Worth

Paul Verhaeghe is one of the richest Writer from Belgium. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Paul Verhaeghe 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

in 1978 Verhaeghe earned a Master’s Degree from the field of Psychology at the University of Ghent (RUG). The following year, Verhaeghe received the PhD in Clinical Psychology (RUG) and in 1992, a special Doctorate on Psychodiagnostics (RUG). His initial psychoanalytical education through the Belgian School for Psychoanalysis (training analyst J. Schotte) and afterward as a student at Ecole de la Cause Freudienne (Paris-Brussels).

Following his studies Verhaeghe was employed for a short period as psychotherapist and clinical psychologist in a mental health center (GGZ) situated in Sint-Niklaas as well as for a while in the Special Youth Care Centre in Eeklo. In the late 1980s Verhaeghe began with his PhD study at the University of Ghent. The research was conducted under the direction of Prof. Julien Quackelbeen, with whom he co-authored a variety of papers. In 1992, he was promoted to Associate Professor. He was promoted to Associate Professor in the year 1996. was promoted to the title as Full Professor. He instructs in Clinical Psychodiagnostics as well as psychoanalytical Therapy as well as Gender Studies. He was the director of the Department of Psychoanalysis and Clinical Consulting from 1999 until October of 2014.

Shortly after 2000, he was part of a study group under the auspices of the IPA (International Psychoanalytic Association) on the interface between neuroscience and psychoanalysis. The collaboration with Jaak Panksepp and Mark Solms, among others, convinced him of the futility of any approach trying to understand humans solely on a psychological or a somatic level. On this basis, in Het einde van de psychotherapie (The end of psychotherapy), he adopts a very critical position against the reduction of psychological and psychiatric disorders to neurobiological, hereditary diseases, and in Identiteit (Identity) against a positivistic and individualistic approach to psychology.

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Its further exploration brought him to the conclusion that contemporary identity is based on a compelling neoliberal ideology and that such an identity goes against our evolutionarily ingrained social nature. At the end of January 2012, during a Belgian national strike, Verhaeghe gave a sharp public lecture at the art centre Vooruit, Ghent, explaining how neoliberalism has done away with politics. Later that year, he gave the annual Paul Verbraeken lecture in Antwerp where he argued that neoliberalism is a contemporary form of social Darwinism, using the university and the hospital as case studies. The subsequent publication of the text received a lot of attention in Flanders. This lecture reappeared in two chapters of Identiteit (Identity), published in the autumn of 2012. Both in the Netherlands and Flanders this book found its way to a wide audience, both left and right wing, and was subsequently translated into German and English.

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Paul Ranked on the list of most popular Writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Belgium. Paul Verhaeghe celebrates birthday on November 5 of every year.