Frank Urbaniok was born in Cologne in 1962 and is the most renowned psychiatrist in Switzerland. From 1995 to 2018, the German-Swiss dual citizen headed the largest forensic psychiatric institution in Switzerland in the canton of Zurich.
Frank Urbaniok is Professor of Forensic Psychiatry at the University of Konstanz, has various other teaching positions and is considered a leading international expert in Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology with a focus on violent and sexual crimes. With FOTRES (Forensic Operationalized Therapy and Risk Evaluation System) he developed his own diagnostic system for the risk assessment of offenders, which is used throughout the German-speaking world.
Speaking topics Frank Urbaniok
- Darwin beats Kant – On the weaknesses of human reason and their fatal consequences
- Criminality: Who is falling for it?
- Respect for human beings: The failure of reason
- What kind of people are these: What can we do?
- Terrorists and violent criminals: The art of forensic risk assessment
- Facts instead of emotions: The crime thriller and real life
Urbaniok led several therapy and research projects. He is also active as a psychotherapist, assessor, supervisor and consultant for companies and executives. Frank Urbaniok is a brilliant lecturer and has been a sought-after expert for media and politics for decades. Urbaniok covers a wide range of topics, from all thematic facets of crime, psychology and social policy to philosophical issues. With his latest book “Darwin beats Kant” he has presented a comprehensive psychogram of Homo sapiens and our societies, which the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung called the “Book of the Hour”.
Further information on this work can be obtained from the interview with Professor Urbaniok in the context of “Sternstunde Philosophie”, an internationally recognized philosophical format of Swiss television.