Otto Dörr Zegers

[16] In 1966, Dr. Otto Dörr returned with his family to Chile to work with Professor Prinz von Auersperg[17] at the university and at the Psychiatric Hospital of Concepción.

Under the tutelage of Professor Werner Janzarik, he works as Head of the Clinic and teaches at the Faculties of Medicine and Psychology and with Hubertus Tellenbach collaborates in the international positioning of Phenomenology and the anthropological current of Psychiatry, as well as studies on melancholy and depression.

[18] In 1981 he returned to Chile to occupy a position as Head of Sector 3 at the then Psychiatric Hospital of Santiago, today the José Horwitz Barak Institute, commissioned by Professor Mario Gomberoff.

Between 1989 and 1992, he was director of the Department of Psychiatry of the South Campus of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Chile and head of the Clinical Service of the Psychiatric Hospital of Santiago, between 1992 and 2008.

He has been editor and member of the editorial board of more than a dozen scientific journals, among which is “Philosophy, Ethics and Humanities in Medicine” (Austin, Texas and London).

[29] In August 2019, the Ethics Tribunal of the Medical College of Chile ruled unanimously in favor of a group of Colonia Dignidad victims who filed a complaint against Dörr.

[31] The Third Chamber of the Santiago Court of Appeals ratified a dismissal of Otto Dörr's arguments to annul the reprimand given to him by the Ethics Tribunal.