Felix Tretter

Felix Tretter
Born1949 (age 74–75)
Villach
NationalityAustrian
Scientific career
FieldsNeuroscience, Psychology, Psychiatry, Neurology, medicine and Cybernetics
InstitutionsUniversity 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

  • Tretter, F. Ökologie der Sucht. Hogrefe Verlag 1998. ISBN 3801710130
  • Tretter, F. Systemtheorie im klinischen Kontext. Pabst, Lengerich 2005 ISBN 3899671821
  • Tretter, F. Ökologie der Person. Pabst, Lengerich 2008, ISBN 9783899674323
  • Tretter, F., Grünhut, C. Ist das Gehirn der Geist? Grundfragen der Neurophysiologie. Hogrefe, Göttingen, 2010. ISBN 3801722767
  • Tretter, F. Sucht. Gehirn. Gesellschaft. Medizinisch Wissenchaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin 2016. ISBN 9783954662906
  • Tretter, F. (Editor) Suchtmedizin kompakt. Schattauer, Stuttgart 2008, 2012 und 2017. ISBN 9783794531622.
  • 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 ISBN 978-3-527-32503-0

Selected research papers and review articles

References

  1. ^ Tretter, F (October 2018). "From mind to molecules and back to mind-Metatheoretical limits and options for systems neuropsychiatry". Chaos (Woodbury, N.Y.). 28 (10): 106325. Bibcode:2018Chaos..28j6325T. doi:10.1063/1.5040174. PMID 30384654. S2CID 54280766.
  2. ^ Tretter, F; an der Heiden, U; Rujescu, D; Pogarell, O (May 2012). "Computational modelling of schizophrenic symptoms: basic issues". Pharmacopsychiatry. 45 (Suppl 1): S2-11. doi:10.1055/s-0032-1311563. PMID 22565230. S2CID 31935019.
  3. ^ Qi, Z; Yu, GP; Tretter, F; Pogarell, O; Grace, AA; Voit, EO (November 2016). "A heuristic model for working memory deficit in schizophrenia". Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects. 1860 (11 Pt B): 2696–705. doi:10.1016/j.bbagen.2016.04.031. PMC 5018429. PMID 27177811.
  4. ^ Kunhardt, Horst (2011). Systemisches Management im Gesundheitswesen: Innovative Konzepte und Praxisbeispiele. Wiesbaden: Gabler Springer e-books. ISBN 9783834964403.
  5. ^ Höfling, Siegfried; Tretter, Felix (2012). Homo Oecologicus: Menschenbilder im 21. Jahrhundert. München: Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung. ISBN 978-3-88795-411-6.
  6. ^ Tretter, F; Löffler-Stastka, H (31 October 2019). "The Human Ecological Perspective and Biopsychosocial Medicine". International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 16 (21): 4230. doi:10.3390/ijerph16214230. PMC 6862005. PMID 31683637.
  7. ^ Tretter, Felix (May 2019). ""Systems medicine" in the view of von Bertalanffy's "organismic biology" and systems theory". Systems Research and Behavioral Science. 36 (3): 346–362. doi:10.1002/sres.2588. S2CID 182787464.
  8. ^ Tretter, F; Löffler-Stastka, H (December 2019). "Medical knowledge integration and "systems medicine": Needs, ambitions, limitations and options". Medical Hypotheses. 133: 109386. doi:10.1016/j.mehy.2019.109386. PMID 31541780. S2CID 202718643.
  9. ^ Tretter, F; Wolkenhauer, O; Meyer-Hermann, M; Dietrich, JW; Green, S; Marcum, J; Weckwerth, W (2021). "The Quest for System-Theoretical Medicine in the COVID-19 Era". Frontiers in Medicine. 8: 640974. doi:10.3389/fmed.2021.640974. PMC 8039135. PMID 33855036.
  10. ^ Tretter, F; Peters, EMJ; Sturmberg, J; Bennett, J; Voit, E; Dietrich, JW; Smith, G; Weckwerth, W; Grossman, Z; Wolkenhauer, O; Marcum, JA (28 September 2022). "Perspectives of (/memorandum for) systems thinking on COVID-19 pandemic and pathology". Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 29 (3): 415–429. doi:10.1111/jep.13772. PMC 9538129. PMID 36168893.