作者: Volker Hartmann Cardelle

Dietmar Dietrich completed his studies in Electrical Engineering in Karlsruhe via the second educational path, after his education as an electronics technician, with the help of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (German National Academic Foundation). After his doctorate, he worked in aviation and later in communications engineering. His main topics as a professor of computer technology (Bielefeld and Vienna), after working in industry, were mainly processes of automation and increasingly problems of Artificial Intelligence (AI). He was (co-)organizer of many national and international scientific conferences and worked for decades worldwide in industrial as well as scientific committees. He is the author of six Springer books and conference proceedings, in both English and German, including the titles “Simulating the Mind” (2009) and “Artificial Intelligence: A Bridge Between Psychoanalysis and Neurology – The Psi-Organ in a Nutshell” (2023). Volker Hartmann Cardelle is a psychoanalyst, psychologist and psychotherapist in the city of Chur (Switzerland). He studied psychology and philosophy at the University of Zurich and graduated in 2017. Parallel to his studies, he spent ten years researching the works of Sigmund Freud, and published on the consequences of modern brain research for Freud’s model of the psychic apparatus. He became a psychoanalyst in 2021 and completed his postgraduate training as a psychotherapist in 2024. Since 2022, he has been working on his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Ghent (Belgium) on the subject of the consequences of computer technology for the interpretation of Sigmund Freud’s scientific work.