When Meaning Falters: Do Symptoms Always Speak?
Psychoanalysis has long been sustained by a powerful conviction: that symptoms are not arbitrary. They speak, even when the subject cannot. They condense conflict, displace...
When the Body Thinks Instead: On Psychosomatic Patients and the Poverty of Symbolization
There are patients for whom the analytic encounter does not unfold in the expected register of conflict, fantasy, and interpretation. Instead, one is met with...
The Somatic vs. Libidinal Body: André Green and the Limits of Representation
The psychoanalytic body is never simply given. It is not reducible to flesh, organs, or physiology, even though it depends on them. From a psychoanalytic...
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...
Schlagend oder nicht schlagend?
Burschenschaften zwischen Ritual, Körper, Identität und Unbewusstem** Einleitung: Warum der Unterschied mehr ist als eine Fechtfrage Der Unterschied zwischen schlagenden und nicht schlagenden Burschenschaften wird...