Wolfgang Luthe (1922-1985) was a German physician and psychotherapist, who brought autogenic training to the attention of the English-speaking world.
[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] His contributions to autogenic training, and collaboration over several decades with JH Schultz, its founder, sometimes result in Luthe being credited as one of the originators of the method.
[15] As a junior trainee, he met JH Schultz, who was the founder of autogenic training (AT), a system of self-hypnosis, which was confined to Germany and Austria before and during World War Two.
[8] As a member of the International Institute of Stress, founded by Hans Selye, he demonstrated the stress-reduction effects of autogenic exercises.
[8] He taught at both Université de Montreal and McGill University, including the psychology and the psychiatry postgraduate training programs.
[8][10] This article incorporates text by José Luis González de Rivera available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license.