RAME Therapy and Neurodivergence: Building Compassion, Acceptance, and Self-Accommodation Therapy with neurodivergent clients often involves more than symptom reduction or skill building. At its core,...
Sensory Processing, Alexithymia, Masking, and Emotional Awareness in Autism and ADHD
Autism and ADHD frequently involve differences not only in attention or social communication, but in sensory processing, emotional identification, and identity formation. Understanding these domains...
Autism, ADHD, and the Persistent Drive for Autonomy: Moving Beyond Pathology
Autism and ADHD share overlapping features, yet they are not the same condition. Some individuals meet criteria for one, some for both, and some display...
Dating Neurodivergent People: Communication, Clarity, and Connection
Clinical reflections with research integration Romantic relationships are complex for everyone. When neurotypes differ, the complexity can increase — not because one person is deficient,...
The Double Empathy Problem: Rethinking Communication Differences in Autism
For clinicians working with autistic and ADHD clients For decades, communication differences in autism were framed almost exclusively as deficits — difficulties in social reciprocity,...
Interest-Based Brains in an Importance-Based World
One of the most transformative shifts for ADHD clients is understanding this: Your brain is not broken.It is interest-based. Most institutions — schools, workplaces, even...
Autism & ADHD in the Therapy Room: Moving From Pathology to Compassion
As clinicians, many of us were trained within a pathology paradigm — one that assumes there is a “right” way for the brain to function...
Between Exhibitionism and Disembodiment: A Psychoanalytic Look at Dick Pics and the New “Chatroulette” Culture
In the early 2010s, platforms like Chatroulette created a bizarre social laboratory: strangers encountering each other without context, often without words, governed only by the...
„Die Masken der Niederlage“ – Narzissmus, Selbstschutz und die Dynamik innerer Konflikte
Literatur:Kernberg, O. F. (1994). Die Masken der Niederlage: Narzissmus, Narzisstische Persönlichkeitsstörung und die Suche nach dem Selbst. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta. Einführung: Niederlage als psychodynamisches Phänomen Otto...
„Du musst nicht von allen gemocht werden“ – Ein psychodynamischer Blick auf Freiheit, Verantwortung und die Angst vor Ablehnung
Literatur:Kishimi, I. & Koga, F. (2020). Du musst nicht von allen gemocht werden. Vom Mut, sich nicht zu verbiegen. München: Rowohlt. Einführung: Die überraschende Aktualität...