Thomas Druyen

Thomas Druyen (born July 2, 1957, in Süchteln, now Viersen) is a German sociologist and director of two institutes at the Sigmund Freud Private University in Vienna.

In addition to his work as a speaker and author - especially on philosophical and contemporary topics[1][2][3][4] - Druyen focuses his research on the psychological and neural conditions as well as the accompanying phenomena of shaping the future, digitization and demographic change.

Druyen has been teaching at the Institute of Sociology of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster since 2004 and was Director of the Investment Research Forum from 2006 to 2010.

From 2001 to 2014, Druyen was president of the board of trustees of the "Dialog der Generationen" foundation in Düsseldorf, founded in 1999 and now dissolved.

His 2003 book "Olympus of life - the new picture of the age" found entrance into numerous public debates,[16][17] and prepared at the same time the basis for its further research field of the culture of wealth by further developing basic elements from the demographic research and thus reaching an overall social dimension.

[25] By "wealth culture" Druyen understands the promotion and maintenance of material and immaterial values to protect of the individual and social viability.

In this sense, he sees demographic change as a prime example of the fact that the majority of people repress existing impulses, despite better knowledge, instead of dealing with them and make them active.

[33] The psychology of the future focuses primarily on the areas of anticipation and prospection in an age characterized by accelerated change, digitization and virtuality.