About Sebastian Thrul

Sebastian Thrul is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in training in Germany and Switzerland with the German Psychoanalytical Society (DPG). His main clinical interest is the application of psychoanalytic technique to work within the health care system and for a wide variety of patients.
Sebastian Thrul is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in training in Germany and Switzerland. He can be reached at sebastian.thrul@gmx.de.

NBN Episodes hosted by Sebastian:

Amber M. Trotter, "Psychoanalysis as a Subversive Phenomenon: Social Change, Virtue Ethics, and Analytic Theory" (Lexington Books, 2020)

September 14, 2022

Psychoanalysis as a Subversive Phenomenon

Amber M. Trotter
Hosted by Sebastian Thrul

“Perhaps psychoanalysis survives because it obstinately carries a torch of wild freedom and reverence for the unknowable in a world of rational episte…

Transgender Children: From Controversy to Dialogue

July 11, 2022

Transgender Children

Jordan Osserman and Hannah Wallerstein
Hosted by Sebastian Thrul

How do we go forward in our psychoanalytic understanding of transgender children? This highly contested issue is at the core of an interesting edition…

Brett Kahr, "Freud's Pandemics: Surviving Global War, Spanish Flu, and the Nazis" (Confer Books, 2022)

March 11, 2022

Freud's Pandemics

Brett Kahr
Hosted by Sebastian Thrul

In his latest book Freud's Pandemics: Surviving Global War, Spanish Flu, and the Nazis (Confer Books, 2021), Professor Brett Kahr has used his remarka…

Michael J. Diamond, "Masculinity and Its Discontents: The Male Psyche and the Inherent Tensions of Maturing Manhood" (Routledge, 2021)

February 7, 2022

Masculinity and Its Discontents

Michael J. Diamond
Hosted by Sebastian Thrul

In his new book Masculinity and its Discontents: The Male Psyche and the Inherent Tensions of Maturing Manhood (Routledge, 2021), Michael J. Diamond d…

Jacob Johanssen, "Fantasy, Online Misogyny and the Manosphere: Male Bodies of Dis/Inhibition" (Routledge, 2021)

December 14, 2021

Fantasy, Online Misogyny and the Manosphere

Jacob Johanssen
Hosted by Sebastian Thrul

In his new book Fantasy, Online Misogyny and the Manosphere: Male Bodies of Dis/Inhibition (Routledge, 2021), Jacob Johanssen takes us on a journey in…

Susan Evans and Marcus Evans, "Gender Dysphoria: A Therapeutic Model for Working with Children, Adolescents and Young Adults" (Phoenix, 2021)

August 9, 2021

Gender Dysphoria: A Therapeutic Model for Working with Children, Adolescents and Young Adults

Susan Evans and Marcus Evans
Hosted by Sebastian Thrul

Gender Dysphoria: A Therapeutic Model for Working with Children, Adolescents and Young Adults (Phoenix Publishing House, 2021) by Susan and Marcus Eva…

Brett Kahr, "How to Flourish as a Psychotherapist" (Phoenix, 2018)

March 9, 2021

How to Flourish as a Psychotherapist

Brett Kahr
Hosted by Sebastian Thrul

Brett Kahr has done it again! He has given us a marvelous book, helpful, yet challenging, fun to read, yet digging deep. In How to Flourish as a Psych…

Siri Erika Gullestad and Bjørn Killingmo, "The Theory and Practice of Psychoanalytic Therapy: Listening for the Subtext" (Routledge, 2019)

December 31, 2020

The Theory and Practice of Psychoanalytic Therapy

Siri Erika Gullestad and Bjørn Killingmo
Hosted by Sebastian Thrul

“She is seated in her chair, quietly anticipative. She is in no hurry. There is nothing that has to be achieved. She does not charge the situation wit…

Marion Bower, "The Life and Work of Joan Riviere: Freud, Klein and Female Sexuality" (Routledge, 2018)

September 2, 2020

The Life and Work of Joan Riviere

Marion Bower
Hosted by Sebastian Thrul

Joan Riviere (1883-1962) is best known for her role in promoting the ideas of others. She came to prominence in the world of psychoanalysis as Freud’s…

Jonathan Sklar, "Dark Times: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Politics, History and Mourning" (Phoenix, 2018)

July 14, 2020

Dark Times

Jonathan Sklar
Hosted by Sebastian Thrul

"Although small, this book goes against the grain of the current trend for brief soundbites that allow us to pass swiftly over painful information. It…

Nancy J. Chodorow, "The Psychoanalytic Ear and the Sociological Eye" (Routledge 2020)

May 20, 2020

The Psychoanalytic Ear and the Sociological Eye

Nancy J. Chodorow
Hosted by Sebastian Thrul

In The Psychoanalytic Ear and the Sociological Eye: Toward an American Independent Tradition (Routledge 2020) Professor Nancy J. Chodorow gives name a…

Brett Kahr, "Bombs in the Consulting Room: Surviving Psychological Shrapnel" (Routledge, 2019)

November 15, 2019

Bombs in the Consulting Room

Brett Kahr
Hosted by Sebastian Thrul

"I’m very happy to say I really really do love psychoanalysis. I think the insights are absolutely genius and I don’t think that I would be able to do…

Valery Hazanov, "The Fear of Doing Nothing: Notes of a Young Therapist" (Sphinx, 2019)

September 23, 2019

The Fear of Doing Nothing

Valery Hazanov
Hosted by Sebastian Thrul

"Psychotherapy, in my experience, feels nothing like a paper about psychotherapy." In his honest, witty and at times deeply moving account of his g…