Abstract
The Institut für Psychoanalyse Zürich-Kreuzlingen (IfP) was founded as a working group in 1972. Its founder Norman Elrod graduated from the Carl-Gustav-Jung-Institute in Zurich and followed a politically and philosophically reflected psychoanalysis. In addition, he was engaged in the treatment of psychotic patients. Quite a few of his co-workers worked in the Psyichiatria Democratica in Italy as well as in institutions in Germany and Switzerland, where they also contributed greatly to psychoanalytically inspired multiprofessional care for severely ill individuals, including forensic patients.
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Kathleen Amann, Michael Amann, Barbara Auer, Ruedi Balmer, Jan Bulla, Gerhard Ebner, Klaus Felske, Arnold Frauenfelder, Rainer Funk, Michael Holzmann, Andrea Huppke, Kiriaki Ioannidou, Tilman Kluttig, Bernd Lehle, Reinhard Mack, Michael Nerad, Amelie Noack, Friedemann Pfäfflin, Hans Red, Peter Reutter, Ludwig Riel, Hartmut Rostek, and Sybille Schnauber for their support
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Klaus Hoffmann
Professor Dr. med. Klaus Hoffmann, is an individual and group analyst and a specialist medical doctor for psychiatry and psychosomatics. From 1997 to 2020, he was the Medical Director of the Clinic for Forensic Psychiatry and Psychotherapy in Reichenau Mental Hospital (Germany), since 2002, he is the head of the Institute of Psychoanalysis Zürich-Kreuzlingen (IfP), since 2000 he is a member of the EC of the IFPS, and since 2007 he is professor in the psychology department of Konstanz University.