The Essence of Waldorf Education
Peter Selgwas born in 1963 in Stuttgart and studied medicine in Witten-Herdecke, Zurich, and Berlin. Until 2000, he worked as the head physician of the juvenile psychiatry department of Herdecke hospital in Germany. Dr. Selg is now director of the Ita Wegman Institute for Basic Research into Anthro­posophy (Arlesheim, Switzerland) and professor of medicine at the Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences (Germany). He lectures extensively and is the author of numerous books, includingSeeing Christ in Sickness and Healing(2005);The Thera­peutic Eye(2008);A Grand Metamorphosis(2008);The Figure of Christ(2009);Rudolf Steiner as a Spiritual Teacher(2010); andRudolf Steiner and the Fifth Gospel(2010). He is mar­ried with five children.