**About the Editors**

## **Franco Orsucci**

Received his medical degree in 1980 and psychiatry post-graduate degree in 1984 at the Sapienza University of Rome (both 1st Class Hons). He became a psychoanalyst of the International Psychoanalytical Association in 1992. He has been professor at the universities Catholic of Rome, Siena, Chieti-Pescara, Cusano (London). Visiting professor at the University of Kent and, currently, at University College London. He is Clinical Director at the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and the European Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has been founding president of the Italian Society for Chaos and Complexity Science and, currently, of the Mind Force Society. He has organized international conferences and workshops with these societies and the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR), where he is chairing the Complexity Science Interest Section.

#### **Wolfgang Tschacher**

Received his Ph.D. in psychology 1990. Psychotherapy training in systemic therapy at the Institute of Family Therapy, Munich. Habilitation in psychology and Venia legendi 1996 at University of Bern, Switzerland, professorship in 2002, head of department of psychotherapy at the University Hospital of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, now professor emeritus. His main interests are in psychotherapy process research and empirical aesthetics, with an emphasis on complexity science, embodied cognition, and self-organization. Organizer of the series of 'Herbstakademie' conferences on systems theory in psychology and philosophy of mind. He is member of the board of directors of the Society for Mind-Matter Research. From 2007 to 2010 he was president of the European Chapter of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR).
