Regine Scholz | Board Member

Regine Scholz, Dr. phil., studied psychology and sociology and holds a Ph.D. from Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, where she wrote the thesis “Culture and Collective Trauma – a Group Analytic Perspective.”  Dr. Scholz’s professional experience includes research on mediation at Ruhr University Bochum and in-house management trainings in an internationally operating oil company. Since 1987 she has worked in private practice as a group analyst and psychotherapist, specializing in the treatment of trauma. Dr. Scholz was a member of the Management Committee of the GAS International (GASI) and founding member of the German Society for Group Analysis and Group Psychotherapy (D3G). She is a supervisor and training analyst of D3G as well as a member of the training staff of the Munster Institute of Therapeutic and Applied Group Analysis. She is a member of the editorial board of the journal group analysis.

Her work includes papers and workshops at international conferences on topics related to collective trauma. As Chair of the International Development Committee of GASI she organized the first three International Summer Schools in Group Analysis, in Belgrade 2013, in Prague 2015 and 2016 in Athens. She also is the co-organizer of the meanwhile five conferences on the heritage of Auschwitz “Voices after Auschwitz”.  A comprehensive list of Dr. Scholz’s publications on issues of large group theory and the influence of culture and collective trauma on unconscious processes is available on her personal website.