A résumé of some major milestones of my life:
- Born on September 21, 1951
- 1970 – 1976, Study of medicine and philosophy in Marburg, Rome, Heidelberg
- 1976 – 1978, Medical assistant in surgery, internal medicine and psychosomatics
- 1978 – 1979, Medical work in the Psychiatric Center North Baden
- 1979 – 1986, Medical, scientific and teaching activity at the Psychiatric, Psychosomatic and Neurological University Hospital Heidelberg
- 1985, Guest lecturer as DAAD scholarship holder at the Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile
- 1986 – 2017, Head physician of the Psychosocial Counseling Center for students at the University of Heidelberg
- Scientific and teaching activities at the University of Heidelberg
- Private practice for psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy
- International lecturing activities and guest professorships in Latin America and China
- 1996, Habilitation: “Psychic disorders of students and their treatment”
- 2002, Appointment as teaching analyst in the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPV)
- 2009, Appointment to the international college “Morphomata”, Center for Advanced Studies, University of Cologne
- 2010, Appointment to the “Marsilius-Kolleg”, Center for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Heidelberg
- 2011, Appointment as Visiting Professor at the Pop-Akademie Baden-Württemberg, Mannheim, Germany
- 2011, Appointment as Investigador Adjunto, Universidad de Chile
- 2015, Appointment to the Academia Argentina de Ciencias, Psicoanálisis y Psiquiatría
- 2015 to present, Direction of a project at the University of Heidelberg on “Early Help for Refugee Children”
- 2017 to present, Founding and management of the Heidelberg Institute for Coaching (hic)
- 2019, Lecture on creative coping with hate and violence at the University of California at Berkeley
- 2023, Appointed honorary member of the Academia Chilena de Medicina
- Thematic focus of books and media contributions: Creativity, intelligence, counseling, coaching and psychotherapy, and creative coping with despair, hatred and violence (see publications)