Ulrike Hoffmann-Richter

Ulrike Hoffmann-Richter studied human medicine in Ulm and earned her doctorate on the topic of communication between doctor and patient during ward rounds. She completed training as a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy and further training in psychoanalysis in Cologne.

From 1990 to 1999 she worked as a senior physician at the Psychiatric University Hospital of Basel [de]. During this time she carried out research projects on psychiatry in the print media and on suicide research. From 1999 to 2014 she worked as a psychiatrist in the SUVA's Insurance Medicine Competence Center. There she was responsible for setting up and managing their insurance psychiatric service. During this time she conducted research projects on diagnostics and therapy for mental disorders after accidents (EBEPS/OptiFAB) and on the reliability of psychiatric reports (Rely study). From 1993 she was an editor and from 2001 co-editor of the journal Psychiatrische Praxis published by Thieme Verlag. From 1994 to 2001 she was managing editor of the journal Psychotherapeutin.^[3]  From 1998 she held teaching positions and worked as a lecturer at the universities of Bern, Basel and Sapienza Rome.

Since 2014, Ulrike Hoffmann-Richter had been offering psychiatric and psychotherapeutic treatments in her own practice in Lucerne in Switzerland. Her main psychotherapeutic focus was depth psychology. She specialized in assessments in the field of social insurance.^[2]

Since 2017, she worked as a specialist judge at the Cantonal Court of Lucerne.^[4]

She worked scientifically in the areas of social psychiatry, suicide research, the history of psychotherapy and psychiatry, qualitative methods and analysis of conversations and texts. An important topic for her was communication between doctor and patient, between psychiatry and the public and between medicine and law.