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This podcast is devoted to topics on psychotherapy, contemporary psychoanalysis, and psychodynamic therapy methods, as well as social issues. A new episode is published every Friday. Recomme...
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We are back with a new episode! "Behind what is referred to in psychoanalysis as fate neurosis or repetition compulsion often lurks the unca...
Envy can arise wherever there exists inequality between people: in societies and families, between siblings, genders, and generations. “Envy...
The idea of split personality is fertile ground for stories of great imagination—while regrettably also inspiring and perpetuating numerous...
In contrast to “black depression,” white depression denotes an often inconspicuous, insidious affliction that can last a lifetime. Its disti...
“You’re free to do anything you want! But this man, of all people—you’ll never be happy with him.” Or: “Of course, if you don’t have time, y...
One couple fights over household responsibilities. Another is trapped in a cycle of jealousy and control. Still another strives for total ha...
Addiction is one of the most widespread forms of mental illness. However, it is also burdened with many stigmas, and those suffering from it...
“You are what you eat.” We are continuously negotiating our identity through food, setting the boundaries of the self. Inscribed into the sy...
History has certainly never failed to offer reasons and occasions to cause violence of all sorts; making it understandable how Freud arrived...
The diagnosis of “narcissism” appears to have come into vogue, not only in the field of clinical psychology. It is an inescapable diagnosis...
Grief is one of life’s inevitable experiences, for we live in a world that is fleeting. Processing loss is one of the most difficult mental...
After the previous phases of therapy, in which Alex’s symptoms and later his own life story took center stage, the outbreak of the Corona cr...
Alex, a man in his mid-thirties, comes to therapy with psychosomatic symptoms and anxiety attacks, for which initially there appears to be n...
This case study is about Alex, a man in his mid-thirties, who spent over four years in analysis, most of that time with three sessions a wee...
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Attachment, love, always goes hand in hand with losses—thus happiness and sadness are also close relatives. In this episode we will hear mor...
Psychoanalysis is often equated with the work of Sigmund Freud. Contemporary modes of thought and therapeutic approaches such as relational...
Conspiracy phantasma derive their power from affects, not from arguments. They cannot be understood by differentiating them from some suppos...
“The school of C.G. Jung has played a controversial role in psychoanalysis. More than almost any other psychological school, it grants a gre...
“A trauma does not disappear through silence; it cannot be silenced out of existence. It remains effective in fantasies, dreams, and experie...
“It is important to emphasize that in every victim of trauma there is a desire for vitality and healing. Consciously and unconsciously, the...
“What remains unresolved in the mind knows no time.” This episode is the first of a three-part series on the psychoanalysis of trauma. In th...
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“And how is this supposed to work here?” This is the question that quite a few patients ask at the beginning of psychotherapy. How psychothe...
Over the course of a therapeutic session, a depressed patient talks about his work colleagues with whom he is working on a group project for...
The division head of a company has called an important meeting. All employees are present at the agreed upon time, except for the boss. Only...
Everyone has their rituals that they insist upon observing more or less fastidiously and, if interrupted, would react to sensitively. From a...
When this term comes into play, all analytical alarm bells start going off: Oedipus Complex. This concept seems to epitomize everything disr...
Children are existentially reliant upon their primary caregivers concerning almost every sphere of life and, most of all, in relation to the...
Not all depression is the same, nor all forms of anxiety. The very same symptom can have completely different meanings for different people...
We all wear masks from time to time: at work, in front of our friends, sometimes even—or perhaps especially—within our family and in front o...
Anxiety disorders are among the most common psychological problems for which people seek out psychotherapy. At the same time, anxiety is a f...
The world is a stage—the couch too? So many scenes, sometimes even true dramas, play out in our minds. In everyday life we slip into the mos...
Is there evidence for the effectiveness of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic-based therapy methods? For which forms of illness is it suitabl...
Psychoanalysis is an exotic resident in the house of science. A wide variety of disciplines have borrowed from it, from neuroscience to the...
Everyone has probably wondered to themselves: "Why did I just do that?" or even, "Why did my partner actually behave like that?" The ability...
What constitutes our inner mental life is in large part based on our early relationship experiences. This principle of psychoanalytic thinki...
"Should I really do it—or should I rather not?" In many situations, we are at odds with ourselves, want to have our cake and eat it too, or...
"That’s something that I’ve done? I don’t to remember that at all!" The word repression has made a career for itself: even in our everyday l...
They are among the central terms of psychoanalysis: transference and countertransference. While at the same time, they describe something th...
Outdated and dusty? No other psychotherapeutic practice generates as many rumors as psychoanalysis. Generally, psychoanalysis is equated wit...