Thomas Kretschmar

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Thomas Kretschmar (* 1963 ) is a German economist , clinical psychologist and entrepreneur . He is executive director of the Mind Institute.

Life

Kretschmar studied business administration with a focus on corporate organization in Göttingen and received his doctorate there as a student of Jürgen Bloech on a topic of operational diagnostics. He later studied psychology at the Sigmund-Freud Private University and at the International Psychoanalytic University. From 1985, Kretschmar worked as a management consultant in his own company and later in the management at Droege , then full professor for bank organization at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences . In 1999, Kretschmar founded Hypoport AG , which he went public with his partner Ronald Slabke in 2007. In 2010 he moved to the supervisory board. Since then, Kretschmar has been working primarily in the field of business psychology, in particular the possible uses of Katathym-Imaginative Psychotherapy and other methods of clinical psychology in companies. In mid-2015, he left the Supervisory Board of Hypoport AG and Dr. Klein & Co. AG. From his entrepreneurial activities, Kretschmar founded the Kretschmar Family Foundation in 2006, which among other things, as a partner, significantly finances the research activities of the Mind Institute SE. Since 2012 Kretschmar has been managing director and chairman of the administrative board of Mind Institute SE, Berlin.

Current research

  • Possible uses of methods of psychotherapy and clinical psychology in corporate management
  • Advantages and disadvantages of the variants of imaginative psychotherapy (focus on individual therapy)
  • Operationalized methods of psychodynamic coaching

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Mind Institute SE