Esther Horn, Dipl.-Psych., psychoanalyst (DPV/IPA), is the chief psychologist of the psychosomatic day clinic at the Robert Bosch Hospital in Stuttgart. She has published works on pathological personality organizations.

Heinz Weiss, Prof. Dr. med., psychoanalyst and head physician of the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine at the Robert Bosch Hospital in Stuttgart, is the head of the medical focus and a member of the board at the Sigmund Freud Institute in Frankfurt. He is the chair of the Education Section of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and a guest member of the British Psychoanalytical Society. Additionally, he has numerous publications and was the editor of "Oedipus Complex and Symbol Formation" (2013, Brandes & Apsel).