Anke Maatz trained in medicine and philosophy at the universities of Munich, Heidelberg, Jena (Germany) and Durham (U.K.) qualifying with an MA dissertation on phenomenological psychopathology and a medical doctorate in experimental attachment theory. In 2013, she joined the Psychiatric Hospital and Zurich University as a postdoctoral researcher on the interdisciplinary project “’Schizophrenia’ - reception, semantic shift and criticism of a concept” in 2013. From 2016 to 2019, she was a research fellow at the UZH funded by Filling-the-Gap which enabled her to start independent research projects, mostly in close collaborations with linguists. Since 2020, she has been leading the junior investigator group Humanities in Mental Health. She is also the co-founder of the competence centre Language&Medicine Zurich (language-and-medicine@uzh.ch) at UZH.

Clinically, she works as a consultant psychiatrist in the Department of Forensic Psychiatry.

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