After living in the USA while I was in high school, I studied psychology in Montpellier, France and four years in Tokyo to finish my studies at the University in Munich.

In addition to my clinical, psychotherapeutic work, I was interested in working with international and internationally operating companies within the framework of coaching and consulting from an early stage. I was already involved in the acquisition negotiations between Sony and Wega in the 1970s.

After starting my training as a psychoanalyst in Tokyo with the Late Prof.Okonogi, I completed it in Munich, Berne and Berlin. A special focus was the treatment of patients from the borderline syndrome spectrum and personality disorders. At the same time, I decisively expanded my therapeutic possibilities with my training as a group analyst.

From the beginning of the 80ies I also ran a kindergarten for 5 years, built up 2 toddler groups in the 80s, which was still a “pioneering act” at that time, and devoted myself intensively to accompanying parent-teacher work in the form of supervision and balint groups.

At the end of the 1970s I had already taken part in a research project on child abuse, which investigated both perpetrators and victims, often the later perpetrators.  This led me in the mid-1980s to become a member of Amnesty International’s Medical Psychology Working Group, which deals with the treatment of torture victims. This is a topic to which I still devote myself in theory and practice, and which also stimulates my clinical work in the form of the trauma treatment of severely disturbed patients.

From 1987 on, together with like-minded people, I built up four assisted living communities with 8 to 10 residents and developed the model of the therapeutic community in the community, which enabled many seriously ill psychiatric patients to successfully undergo psychotherapy and no longer remain trapped in a revolving door psychiatry, as they experienced a supportive, invigorating interpersonal space in the shared flats, which enabled them to “survive” between sessions without falling into unbearable emotional states, thus making many psychiatric stays superfluous.