Book details

176 Pages
Publication date: November 2025
Imprint: ecoWing
Renate Deimel Karin Hediger Roswitha Zink

Doctor Cat

Therapy on Velvet Paws

Purring from heart to heart

Can cats understand us? Is the most independent animal among our companions really willing to respond to humans? They are masters of perception. Hardly any other animal has a finer sensorium. They hear, smell, see and feel many times better than a human being can sense another – even more so when someone needs help.

When a person is out of balance, the cat senses it immediately. The authors develop and implement this potential in their daily work. According to the latest scientific findings, the diversity of the therapeutic effect of cats on humans goes far beyond the confirmed effect of purring. The authors report on what a cat can give to sad, traumatized people with well-founded theory and lively practice. Cats can do much more than we thought. And your own cat can learn more than we could ever have imagined.

Autoren

Renate Deimel

RENATE DEIMEL is a certified special and remedial education teacher and psychotherapist. She works with cats, dogs, rabbits, sheep and horses at the children’s hospice Lichtblickhof in Austria, supporting people in trauma, grief and palliative care situations.

Karin Hediger

KARIN HEDIGER is a professor of Psychology at the University of Lucerne, a psychotherapist and a trauma therapist. She heads the university training course for animal-assisted therapy in Switzerland.

Roswitha Zink

ROSWITHA ZINK is a biologist, psychotherapist and founder of the children’s hospice Lichtblickhof. One focus of her work is on scientific projects on animal-human communication.