Current Position: Adjunct Professor, Webster University Vienna Professor, University of Vienna Country of Origin: Austria

Courses taught at Webster

• Personality Theories
• History of Psychoanalysis and Rank Studies
• Eros and Thanatos in Vienna

Education

• Ph.D. (Habilitation, University of Vienna, 1998)

Background and Facts

I studied at the University Vienna, Education and Psychology. Habilitation (Ph.D.) in 1998, Studies on Carl R. Rogers.

Currently I am part of the University Vienna, Faculty of Philosophy and Education and is a licensed Person Centered Psychotherapist in Austria.

After I have had the privilege of working with outstanding people such as Carl R. Rogers, Douglas A. Land, and John M. Shlien, mainly in Europe and in the US, I discovered that there is also an unknown area close to Austria, namely Central Eastern Europe. Therefore I applied for a guest professorship in Cluj-Napoca, in Romania, and worked there in the spring terms of 2004, 2005, 2006 at the tri-lingual University. Altough I initially belonged to the faculty of Journalism at the German Department my focus shifted to a field called social reportage.

My publications cover the field of Social Pedagogics, and the political impact of the Person Centered Approach and Humanistic Psychology.

As for my teaching philosophy, I like to combine learning and sight-seeing for a deeper understanding of a culture and its roots. I see myself as a tour-guide through the amusement park of life. This is a decent and serious profession. We have learned a lot from various guides in our lives, some from parents, quite an enourmous bit from peers and a few things from teachers. Mainly we learn from ourselves if we are brave enough to let us be surprised by ourselves.

As for my personal interests I see myself as an afficionado in theater, and I consider Shakespeare, Dostojewski and Johann Nepomuk Nestroy as great psychologists.