Dominique Hertzer (DE)

Dominique Hertzer did her first PhD in Sinology about the Mawangdui-Yijing and was an assistant Professor at the Ludwigs-Maximilians University (LMU) in Munich from 1989 to 1996. After her study of TCM in Munich and Tianjin (China) she finished her second PhD in the field of History of Medicine at the University of Witten/Herdecke with the topic: Light of the Mind and Perception of the Soul - The Medical Notion of the Psyche as an Expression of Philosophical Thought: China and the Occident. Besides working as an TCM therapist and a Philosophical counselor, Dominique Hertzer is continuing her research work in the field of Chinese Philosophy and Medicine as well as on Daoism, with special regard to Philosophical Practice. She is teaching in her own Institute and at the Universities of Munich (LMU) and Göttingen. Since 2017 she is a visiting researcher at the CEMEAS in Göttingen.