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Aglaja Valentina Stirn


Born: September 30th, 1962 in Wiesbaden, Germany

Parents: Prof. Hans Stirn (PhD) and
Dr. Angelika Stirn (M.D.)

Great grandfather was Arthur Schwarz who established the “German Photographic Society, Berlin“, from which the Eastman Kodak company had originated.



Professional Education and Work



For a list of Aglaja Stirn's scientific publications click here
1983-1984 General studies (studium generale) at the Leibniz College, Tuebingen

April 1984 -1990 Medical Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz

Internships in New York, Bhetul-Madhya Pradesh / India and Kathmandu / Nepal
during vacation (three months each)

April 1990 Approbation as Medical Doctor

May 1990 - 1993 Internal medicine and psychiatry in various hospitals

September 1993 Psychiatry at Cornell Medical Center New York

November 1993 Start of the clinical work at the Teaching Hospital for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy of the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-University Frankfurt
September 1996 Doctoral thesis at the University hospital Frankfurt accepted with "summa cum laude"-degree, published by VAS-publishers, Frankfurt

August 1997 Specialist for Psychotherapeutic Medicine and Psychotherapy
J.W.G.- University
September 1997 Assistant director of the teaching hospital for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy at Frankfurt University. Therapeutic single- and group sessions, teaching, supervision and research work (till now app. 25 publications in the medical field)
Publications
January 1998 Lecturer at the Institute for Psychotherapy
and Psychoanalysis, Rhein-Eifel, Sinzig

April 1999 Group therapist

January 2000 Psychoanalyst
June 2000 Elected Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society
of Great Britain and Ireland, London
R.A.S.
September 2000 Elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
(With IBG), London

April 2001: Admission to the "Marquis Who is Who in Science
in the World"

June 2001 Reviewer for "Psychotherapy Research".
the Journal of the International Society for Psychotherapy Research

May 2002 Member of the Editorial Board for

"Psychotherapy and Social Science"

June 2002 Member of the Editorial Board for
"Psychotherapy Research",
the Journal of the International Society for Psychotherapy Research

November 2002 Elected Fellow of the Explorers Club, New York

July 2003 Assistant Director at the teaching hospital
for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy I at Frankfurt University.

August 2003 Associate Director of the Society for the Preservation
and Promotion of Naga Heritage (SPNH), Frankfurt.

September 2004 Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute
for Brain Research, Frankfurt.

September 2005 Director of the Dept. for Psychosomatic Medicine
and Psychotherapy at the teaching hospital of Frankfurt University.

March 2006 "Habilitation" for Professorship in Psychosomatic Medicine
and Psychotherapy at the teaching hospital of Frankfurt University.




R.G.S.
S.P.R.
Explorers
Club
SPNH
Travel Experience:

Already as a child long travels in non-touristic regions of the entire Europe, Russia and the U.S.

1979 First travel to India, Nepal and Sri Lanka
1981 South America: Argentina, Columbia, Ecuador, Brasil, Peru, Bolivia, Uruguay
1982 Kashmir, Ladakh, Sikkim, Bhutan, Burma
1982 Egypt
1983 South America: Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivia
1984 Kashmir, Ladakh, Middle India, Phillipines
1985 Southern Africa
1986 Nepal, Northern and Southern India
1989 Russia, Mongolia, China, Eastern Tibet, Silk Road, Pakistan
1990 Thailand, Malaysia
1991 Indonesia
1992 Western and Northern India: Rajasthan, Bihar
1993 Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos
1993 U.S.A.
1994 Ladakh
1995 Eastern India: West Bengal, Andamans, Sikkim
1995 Northern India: Himachal Pradesh: Kinnaur, Spiti, Kulu
1996 Northeast India: Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Nagaland, Arunachal
1996 Yemen
1997 Northeast India: Assam, Tripura, Mizoram
1998 U.S.A.: California, New Mexico
1998 Northeast India: Arunachal Pradesh
1999 Northeast India: Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya
2000 Nepal: Mustang
2002 Nepal, Burma
2002 India: Nagaland
2003 India: Arunachal Pradesh

2004 India: Nagaland