Esther Fischer-Homberger

Fischer-Homberger completed a medical degree in Neuchâtel and Zurich, her dissertation in psychiatric history being on the topic, "The circular madness".

[3] From 1968 to 1973, she was an assistant at the Medical History Institute of the University of Zurich with Erwin Heinz Ackerknecht.

Her habilitation, "The Traumatic Neurosis; From somatic to social suffering" (1975), occurred at the University of Zurich.

[4] From 1978 to 1984, she served as the chair for medical history at the University of Bern, from which she resigned in 1984 in favor of going into psychotherapeutic practice.

Fischer-Homberger was interested in the psychological and social functionality or dysfunctionality of words and concepts, especially in psychiatric, psychotherapeutic and medical use.