Kurt Ludewig, Dr. phil., Dipl.-Psych, born in 1942 in Valparaiso, Chile,lives in Germany since 1965 where he did his university studies. Clinical psychologist and psychotherapist by profession, has worked 30 years in child and adolescent psychiatry at the University Hospitals of Hamburg and Munster, in the latter as a Chief Psychologist until 2004._x000D_

He was co-founder of the Systemic Institutes of Hamburg and Munster, founding president of the German Systemic Society, and a board member of the EFTA. His book "Systemic Therapy" was the first basic book in the field and has been translated into five languages.