Experts - Dr. Harald Weilnböck’s

Dr. Harald Weilnböck’s areas of scientific expertise are culture and media studies, qualitative-empirical social research, and interdisciplinary narratology. He practices as psychotherapist, institutional councillor and team/ case supervisor. HW studied and worked in New Haven, Los Angeles, Paris, Zurich and Berlin and received his Ph.D. in social and culture studies at UCLA where he also completed training as research psychoanalyst at the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute.

HW undertook further psychotherapy training at the Heidelberg GA-Institute and joined a German Research Foundation project studying media-interaction and biographical development. His tenure qualification (‘’Habilitation‟) HW gained at Leipzig University writing on culture, media, psychotherapy and culture teaching (www.weilnboeck.net). HW currently finishes the EU research project ‘Media interaction as trauma therapy’ in the Dept. for Clinical Psychology of Zurich University, employing methods of biography studies and qualitative psychology.

At ‘Cultures Interactive’, Berlin, HW participates in a project about community work of preventing extremism and conducts the EU research project ‘Cultural and media interaction as means of preventing adolescent violence and extremism’, as well as a German Government project: ‘Youth cultures and self-awareness groups for juveniles at risk of right-wing extremism’. Since 2009 HW also works in the EU-projects: ‘Towards Preventing Violent Radicalisation’ (EU-Direct. Justice), investigating the effects of the ‘Violence Prevention Network‟ method of intervention (London Probation, EU-Directorate ‘Justice’), and since 2010 HW works in the ‘Challenge Hate Crime’-project of ‘Niacra’, Belfast, and the Northern Ireland Prison Services aiming at finding methods of intervention which lend themselves to sectarian hate crime occurring in Northern Ireland.