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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.

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Psychoanalysis September 14, 2022

Psychoanalysis as a Subversive Phenomenon

Social Change, Virtue Ethics, and Analytic Theory

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 epistemology and increasingly rigid sociopolitical control. Psychoanalysis does …
Psychoanalysis July 11, 2022

Transgender Children

From Controversy to Dialogue

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 of the journal The Psychoanalytic Study …
Psychoanalysis March 11, 2022

Freud's Pandemics

Surviving Global War, Spanish Flu, and the Nazis

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 remarkable skills as experienced psychotherapist and rigorous historian to …
Psychoanalysis February 7, 2022

Masculinity and Its Discontents

The Male Psyche and the Inherent Tensions of Maturing Manhood

Michael J. Diamond

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In his new book Masculinity and its Discontents: The Male Psyche and the Inherent Tensions of Maturing Manhood (Routledge, 2021), Michael J. Diamond develops an original psychoanalytic theory of male …
Psychoanalysis December 14, 2021

Fantasy, Online Misogyny and the Manosphere

Male Bodies of Dis/Inhibition

Jacob Johanssen

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In his new book Fantasy, Online Misogyny and the Manosphere: Male Bodies of Dis/Inhibition (Routledge, 2021), Jacob Johanssen takes us on a journey into the dark masculinist recesses of the …
Psychoanalysis August 9, 2021

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

Susan Evans and Marcus Evans

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Gender Dysphoria: A Therapeutic Model for Working with Children, Adolescents and Young Adults (Phoenix Publishing House, 2021) by Susan and Marcus Evans is an uncomfortable book on the politically and clinically …
Psychoanalysis 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 Psychotherapist (Phoenix …
Psychoanalysis December 31, 2020

The Theory and Practice of Psychoanalytic Therapy

Listening for the Subtext

Siri Erika Gullestad and Bjørn Killingmo

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“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 with her temper …
Psychoanalysis September 2, 2020

The Life and Work of Joan Riviere

Freud, Klein and Female Sexuality

Marion Bower

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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 favorite translator and Melanie …
Psychoanalysis July 14, 2020

Dark Times

Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Politics, History and Mourning

Jonathan Sklar

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"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 will go into the details …
Psychoanalysis May 20, 2020

The Psychoanalytic Ear and the Sociological Eye

Toward an American Independent Tradition

Nancy J. Chodorow

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In The Psychoanalytic Ear and the Sociological Eye: Toward an American Independent Tradition (Routledge 2020) Professor Nancy J. Chodorow gives name and shape to an American middle group between the …
Psychoanalysis November 15, 2019

Bombs in the Consulting Room

Surviving Psychological Shrapnel

Brett Kahr

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"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 any …
Psychoanalysis September 23, 2019

The Fear of Doing Nothing

Notes of a Young Therapist

Valery Hazanov

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"Psychotherapy, in my experience, feels nothing like a paper about psychotherapy." In his honest, witty and at times deeply moving account of his graduate training in New York City, Valery …