Wolfgang Tschacher

In 1992, he moved to Bern (Switzerland) where he assumed the position of head of research at the University Hospital of Social Psychiatry, directed by Prof. Luc Ciompi.

In a team with Günter Schiepek, Ewald Johannes Brunner and Jean-Pierre Dauwalder, Tschacher initiated the series of "Herbstakademie" (Autumn Academy)[3] conferences since 1990.

Based on theoretical and mathematical considerations, Tschacher and Haken proposed a "minimal model" of psychotherapeutic interaction, which has implications for effective interventions.

The cooperation with Haken also yielded philosophical results in a complexity-science formulation of intentionality[6] Starting in 2008, Wolfgang Tschacher[7] joined the Projekt «eMotion – Mapping Museum Experience» that was initiated by the art researcher Martin Tröndle.

The eMotion project, supported by the Swiss National Fund, aimed at observing aesthetic perception in the fine arts museum where the locomotion and physiological arousal of visitors was visualized by a "psychogeographical" method.

Numerous publications have shown that individuals tend to synchronize their body movement and physiology during interaction, which is a type of pattern formation that generally occurs outside the interactors' awareness.