Bertrand Piccard Biography

Bertrand Piccard was born on March 1st 1958 in Lausanne (Switzerland) into a family of explorers and scientists. His grandfather was the first person to explore the stratosphere and he invented the bathyscaphe with which his father dived to the deepest point in the oceans. Bertrand seemed to be predestined to perpetuate one of the greatest family adventures of the 20th century. Married and father of three children this scientist-adventurer psychiatrist and aeronaut combines science and adventure to explore the human soul.
After a classical education (latin/greek) he studied medicine became a senior consultant in a psychiatric hospital and specialised jointly in psychiatry and psychotherapy for adults and children. His doctoral thesis entitled La Pdagogie de lEpreuve was awarded a prize by the Faculty of Medicine at Lausanne in 1996. An expert in hypnotherapy he is a lecturer and supervisor for the Swiss Medical Hypnosis Society.
Always interested in the study of human behaviour in extreme situations he was one of the pioneers of hang gliding and microlight flying in the 1970s and became European champion in hang-glider aerobatics (1985).

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