Hans-Otto Thomashoff, MD, PhD, lives and works in Vienna as psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (Vienna Psychoanalytic Society). Based on his PhD in art history he specializes in psychodynamic approaches for the understanding of art. He is an honorary member of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA), president of the WPA section on Art and Psychiatry, member of the supervisory board of the Sigmund Freud Privatstiftung, curator of art exhibitions (“Psyche and Art” and others), translator of psychoanalytic literature as well as writer of non fiction books on integrating brain research and psychoanalysis, member of P.E.N. international.