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== External links =={{SEEALSO}}* [[Literature]]* [[Psychological issues of male circumcision]]* [[Trauma]]{{LINKS}}
== See also =={{ABBR}}* [[Literature]]{{REF}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Franz, Matthias}}
== References ==[[Category:Person]]<references />[[Category:Male]]
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'''Prof. Dr. Matthias Franz''' (* {{LifeData|1955}}) Specialist in Psychosomatic Medicine, a specialist in neurology and psychiatry, training analyst, is Professor of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, {{UNI|Heinrich-Heine University|HHU}}, Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf and Deputy Director of the Institute of Clinical Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy (UKD).
At the [[Scientific Symposium]] on the day before the [[WWDOGA]] 2014, he gave a lecture on the topic of 'Psychotraumatological and psychoanalytic aspects of boy [[circumcision]]'<ref>http://genitale-autonomie.de/videos-der-vortraege/franz/</ref>.
== Research areas ==
Psychosomatic epidemiology (incidence, course, causes and prevention of mental / psychosomatic illnesses), development of innovative preventive interventions in the municipal field, single parents, fatherless, research on emotions ([[Alexithemia| alexithymia]]).
== Curriculum vitae ==
* Studies and {{PhD }} at the {{UNI|Ruprecht Karls Karl University |RKU}} in Heidelberg (Germany)
* 1993 Habilitation
* 1995 Appointed professor at the {{UNI|Heinrich Heine University of Dusseldorf Düsseldorf|HHU}} (Germany)
== Political activities ==
In summer 2012, Franz was the initiator of an open letter to the German policy, which was signed by over 600 people (as of 21 July 2012,), including many doctors, lawyers and scientists.<ref>faz.net: [http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/beschneidungsdebatte-aerzte-und-juristen-plaedieren-gegen-die-beschneidung-11827596.html Doctors and lawyers argue against [[circumcision]]]</ref> The letter refers to the societal debate about the religiously motivated [[circumcision]] underage boys (mostly children of Muslims and Jews) in Germany, which had triggered an undisclosed in June 2012 judgment of the District Court of Cologne. Franz criticizes the "serious accusation of Jewish point of Representatives, that Jewish life in Germany would be impossible by a ban on ritual [[circumcision]]". He argues, inter alia, that freedom of religion "could not be a charter for the application of (sexual) violence against incompetent boys and postulated by reference to the Age of Enlightenment: "One doesn't hurt children!"<ref>[http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/offener-brief-zur-beschneidung-religionsfreiheit-kann-kein-freibrief-fuer-gewalt-sein-11827590.html ''"Freedom of religion can not be a charter for violence" - Open letter about [[circumcision]]''] In: ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung'', July 21, 2012.</ref> [[Dieter Graumann]], then chairman of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, called this a "suggestive slogan" and critized in retrospect, the signatories of the "infamous letter" would have shown "unparalleled rants in an arrogance and a policy delusion about the [[circumcision]] ritual".<ref>[http://www.fr-online.de/politik/zentralrat-der-juden-in-deutschland-graumann---ich-wuensche-mir-respekt-,1472596,24242038.html ''Graumann: "I wish respect"''] In: ''Frankfurter Rundschau'', September 8, 2013.</ref>
Since April 2017, he is an [[intaktiv]] Ambassador.
== PRECK study on late effects of circumcision ==
Since 2019, a study has been carried out at the {{UNI|University of Düsseldorf|HHU}} to clarify the possible after-effects of juvenile boy circumcision, in which Prof. Matthias Franz and Peter Richter are significantly involved.<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://hpd.de/artikel/studie-spaetfolgen-beschneidung-17336
|title=Studie zu Spätfolgen der Beschneidung
|trans-title=Study on late effects of circumcision
|language=German
|publisher=[[HPD]]
|date=2019-10-24
|accessdate=2019-10-24
}}</ref>
== Works (Selection) ==
* M. Franz (Hrsg.): ''Die Beschneidung von Jungen - Ein trauriges Vermächtnis'', Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3525404553<ref>[http://www.v-r.de/pdf/titel_inhalt_und_leseprobe/1011568/inhaltundleseprobe_978-3-647-40455-4.pdf#page=8 Vorwort von M. Franz] (pdf), Inhaltsverzeichnis</ref>.
* [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Franz Wikipedia (German): Matthias Franz]
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