Felix Tretter (born in 1949 in

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) is an Austrian psychologist and psychiatrist. From 1992 to 2014 he was head of the

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department of the Isar-Amper-Klinikum München-Ost, formerly known as ''Bezirkskrankenhaus Haar'',

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. His scientific work has emphasis on modelling of psychophysical scenarios in

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and addiction research with methods of systems science.

Biography

Felix Tretter graduated in philosophy,

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, statistics,

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, and

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at the

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and

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. Subsequently, he worked as a scholar at the Max-Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich. After earning doctorates as Dr. phil., Dr. med. and

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he habilitated to qualify as a

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in clinical psychology at the Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich. Additionally, he was for several years involved in the constitution of

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in Germany. Board-certified for

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, and psychotherapy he was appointed the head of the

department of the Bezirkskrankenhaus Haar, a tertiary

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hospital in the east of Munich. He held this position up to his retirement in 2014. Felix Tretter is deputy head of the Bavarian Academy for Addiction and Health Issues (''Bayerische Akademie für Sucht- und Gesundheitsfragen''). Since 2015 he is fellow at the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science (BCSSS) in Vienna.

Scientific work

Tretter wrote research papers, review articles, and books. The main focus of his scientific work is mathematical description of neuropsychological mechanisms in the evolution of

and

. He aims at describing psychosocial problems from a perpective of cybernetics, systems and ecology. Additional publications by Tretter include systems biology and theory of medicine applied to different fields, including

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Selected publications

Books

* Tretter, F. Ökologie der Sucht. Hogrefe Verlag 1998. * Tretter, F. Systemtheorie im klinischen Kontext. Pabst, Lengerich 2005 * Tretter, F. Ökologie der Person. Pabst, Lengerich 2008, * Tretter, F., Grünhut, C. Ist das Gehirn der Geist? Grundfragen der Neurophysiologie. Hogrefe, Göttingen, 2010. * Tretter, F. Sucht. Gehirn. Gesellschaft. Medizinisch Wissenchaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin 2016. * Tretter, F. (Editor) Suchtmedizin kompakt. Schattauer, Stuttgart 2008, 2012 und 2017. . * Tretter, F., Winterer, G., (Editor), Gebicke-Haerter, P. J., Mendoza, E. R. (Editors) Systems Biology in Psychiatric Research: From High-Throughput Data to Mathematical Modeling. Wiley-Blackwell 2010

Selected research papers and review articles

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References

External links

Tretter's homepage

Author's portrait
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