Melitta Breznik (born 1961 in Kapfenberg) is a senior doctor, specializing in psychiatry and a writer of novels and short stories.
[1][2] She was born in southern Austria, though most of her professional life has been spent in Switzerland.
Melitta Breznik studied medicine in Graz and Innsbruck which is where she obtained her doctorate.
Most recently she headed up the Anthroposophic Psychosomatic Rehabilitation Clinic at Badenweiler on the south-western tip of Germany.
Melitta Breznik in the author of novels and short stories, which are influenced by family and professional experience of psychiatry and which have been critically praised for their precise style.