Felix Tretter Explained

Felix Tretter
Birth Place:Villach
Nationality:Austrian
Field:Neuroscience, Psychology, Psychiatry, Neurology, medicine and Cybernetics
Work Institutions:University of Vienna, Max-Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Bavarian Academy for Addiction and Health Issues, Sigmund Freud University Vienna, Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science

Felix Tretter (born in 1949 in Villach, Austria) is an Austrian psychologist and psychiatrist. From 1992 to 2014 he was head of the addiction department of the Isar-Amper-Klinikum München-Ost, formerly known as Bezirkskrankenhaus Haar, Bavaria, Germany. His scientific work has emphasis on modelling of psychophysical scenarios in schizophrenia and addiction research with methods of systems science.[1]

Biography

Felix Tretter graduated in philosophy, psychology, medicine, statistics, sociology, and economics at the universities of Vienna and Munich. Subsequently, he worked as a scholar at the Max-Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich. After earning doctorates as Dr. phil., Dr. med. and Dr. rer. pol. he habilitated to qualify as a professor in clinical psychology at the Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich. Additionally, he was for several years involved in the constitution of environmental medicine in Germany.

Board-certified for neurology, psychiatry, and psychotherapy he was appointed the head of the addiction department of the Bezirkskrankenhaus Haar, a tertiary psychiatric 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 schizophrenia and addiction.[2] [3] He aims at describing psychosocial problems from a perpective of cybernetics, systems and ecology.[4] [5] [6] [7] Additional publications by Tretter include systems biology and theory of medicine[8] applied to different fields, including COVID-19.[9] [10]

Selected publications

Books

Selected research papers and review articles

References

  1. Tretter . F . From mind to molecules and back to mind-Metatheoretical limits and options for systems neuropsychiatry. . Chaos (Woodbury, N.Y.) . October 2018 . 28 . 10 . 106325 . 10.1063/1.5040174 . 30384654. 2018Chaos..28j6325T . 54280766 .
  2. Tretter . F . an der Heiden . U . Rujescu . D . Pogarell . O . Computational modelling of schizophrenic symptoms: basic issues. . Pharmacopsychiatry . May 2012 . 45 . Suppl 1 . S2-11 . 10.1055/s-0032-1311563 . 22565230. 31935019 .
  3. Qi . Z . Yu . GP . Tretter . F . Pogarell . O . Grace . AA . Voit . EO . A heuristic model for working memory deficit in schizophrenia. . Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects . November 2016 . 1860 . 11 Pt B . 2696–705 . 10.1016/j.bbagen.2016.04.031 . 27177811. 5018429 .
  4. Book: Kunhardt . Horst . Systemisches Management im Gesundheitswesen: Innovative Konzepte und Praxisbeispiele . 2011 . Gabler Springer e-books . Wiesbaden . 9783834964403.
  5. Book: Höfling . Siegfried . Tretter . Felix . Homo Oecologicus: Menschenbilder im 21. Jahrhundert . 2012 . Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung . München . 978-3-88795-411-6.
  6. Tretter . F . Löffler-Stastka . H . The Human Ecological Perspective and Biopsychosocial Medicine. . International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health . 31 October 2019 . 16 . 21 . 4230 . 10.3390/ijerph16214230 . 31683637 . 6862005 . free .
  7. Tretter . Felix . "Systems medicine" in the view of von Bertalanffy's "organismic biology" and systems theory . Systems Research and Behavioral Science . May 2019 . 36 . 3 . 346–362 . 10.1002/sres.2588. 182787464 . free .
  8. Tretter . F . Löffler-Stastka . H . Medical knowledge integration and "systems medicine": Needs, ambitions, limitations and options. . Medical Hypotheses . December 2019 . 133 . 109386 . 10.1016/j.mehy.2019.109386 . 31541780. 202718643 .
  9. Tretter . F . Wolkenhauer . O . Meyer-Hermann . M . Dietrich . JW . Green . S . Marcum . J . Weckwerth . W . The Quest for System-Theoretical Medicine in the COVID-19 Era. . Frontiers in Medicine . 2021 . 8 . 640974 . 10.3389/fmed.2021.640974 . 33855036. 8039135 . free .
  10. Tretter . F . Peters . EMJ . Sturmberg . J . Bennett . J . Voit . E . Dietrich . JW . Smith . G . Weckwerth . W . Grossman . Z . Wolkenhauer . O . Marcum . JA . Perspectives of (/memorandum for) systems thinking on COVID-19 pandemic and pathology. . Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice . 28 September 2022 . 29 . 3 . 415–429 . 10.1111/jep.13772 . 36168893. 9538129 .

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