Dr. Ruth Kronsteiner

Field of work

Lecturer

Resume

Dr. Kronsteiner works as a psychotherapist (psychoanalysis, systemic family therapy) in private practice, for the care centre for torture and war survivors “Hemayat” in Vienna and in independent research and teaching. She has been a university lecturer at various universities in Austria since 1993. During and after her studies of ethnology (cultural and social anthropology), oriental studies and psychology in Vienna, she completed numerous language and research stays in Turkey and Syria. She worked for many years in a counselling centre for women and children from Turkey.
Teaching focus: Ethnopsychoanalysis, inter-, intra-, transcultural psychotherapy, individual, collective and intergenerational trauma, culture, migration and flight, feminism and gender constructions.