Theodor Abt has a Ph.D. from the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, and has served on the board of the C. G. Jung Institute, Zurich. He has been in private practice as a Jungian Analyst since 1975 and since 1990 has been the Professor for Rural Sociology at the ETH. He is a member of the board of the Research and Training Centre for Depth Psychology according to C. G.
Jung and M.-L. von Franz, Zurich, since 1995, and has been president of the Society of the Friends of the Royal Tombs of Egypt since 1988. His research focuses on the relationship of the outer world with the needs of the inner unconscious world.