Dirk Revenstorf, born in 1939, was a Professor for Clinical Psychology at the Universität Tübingen. Among others, he worked in Munich at the Max-Planck-Institute für Psychiatrie and taught at universities in California, Israel and Mexico. He currently heads the academy of the Milton-Erickson-Gesellschaft für klinische Hypnose in Tübingen and gives seminars on partner therapy, hypnosis, dream and behavioural therapy. Revenstorf is a founding member of the Deutsch-Chinesischen Akademie für Psychotherapie and worked as a teaching therapist within this framework. He has received numerous awards and has published numerous books and essays.