Reinhard Haller

Forensic Psychiatrist, Neurologist

Reinhard Haller

Forensic Psychiatrist, Neurologist

Bestselling author Reinhard Haller is one of Europe's most renowned forensic psychiatrists. His expertise is in demand for the assessment of major criminal cases. Reinhard Haller is a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapist and from 1983 to 2017 he was the head physician of the psychiatric-psychotherapeutic clinic Maria Ebene. In 1994 he habilitated at the University of Innsbruck and was appointed university professor in 2003. He teaches at the Medical University of Innsbruck and the Freud University of Vienna and has a psychiatric-psychotherapeutic practice in Feldkirch. His research focuses on addiction and suicide, forensic psychiatry and criminology. He has worked as an expert witness at various domestic and foreign courts since 1983 and his analyses of mental disorders and spectacular crimes are in demand in the international media. His experiences and observations are the basis for the bestseller "The Narcissism Trap" - an entertaining standard work on human and self-knowledge. The Austrian has published more than 250 scientific papers and several books on the topics of mental illness, addiction and criminal psychiatry. Despite the seriousness of the subject matter, his lectures are pointed and understandable even for laypeople. Even though Haller is usually confronted with the dark side of people, he knows how to hold up a mirror to his audience in an entertaining way and generate new insights.

About Reinhard Haller

Bestselling author Reinhard Haller is one of Europe's most renowned forensic psychiatrists. His expertise is in demand for the assessment of major criminal cases.

Reinhard Haller is a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapist and from 1983 to 2017 he was the head physician of the psychiatric-psychotherapeutic clinic Maria Ebene. In 1994 he habilitated at the University of Innsbruck and was appointed university professor in 2003. He teaches at the Medical University of Innsbruck and the Freud University of Vienna and has a psychiatric-psychotherapeutic practice in Feldkirch. His research focuses on addiction and suicide, forensic psychiatry and criminology.

He has worked as an expert witness at various domestic and foreign courts since 1983 and his analyses of mental disorders and spectacular crimes are in demand in the international media.

His experiences and observations are the basis for the bestseller "The Narcissism Trap" - an entertaining standard work on human and self-knowledge. The Austrian has published more than 250 scientific papers and several books on the topics of mental illness, addiction and criminal psychiatry.

Despite the seriousness of the subject matter, his lectures are pointed and understandable even for laypeople. Even though Haller is usually confronted with the dark side of people, he knows how to hold up a mirror to his audience in an entertaining way and generate new insights.