Horst Petri

Horst Petri (born 1936) is a physician specializing in neurology, psychiatry, and child and adolescent psychiatry. Until 2001, he taught psychotherapy and psychosomatic medicine at the Free University of Berlin. He worked as a psychoanalyst in private practice in Berlin. For his body of work on nonviolent education, he received the Hans Czermak Prize from the City of Vienna. Petri published numerous books, several of which were translated into multiple languages.