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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.NBN Episodes hosted by Sebastian:
September 14, 2022
Psychoanalysis as a Subversive Phenomenon
“Perhaps psychoanalysis survives because it obstinately carries a torch of wild freedom and reverence for the unknowable in a world of rational episte…
July 11, 2022
Transgender Children
How do we go forward in our psychoanalytic understanding of transgender children? This highly contested issue is at the core of an interesting edition…
March 11, 2022
Freud's Pandemics
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…
February 7, 2022
Masculinity and Its Discontents
In his new book Masculinity and its Discontents: The Male Psyche and the Inherent Tensions of Maturing Manhood (Routledge, 2021), Michael J. Diamond d…
December 14, 2021
Fantasy, Online Misogyny and the Manosphere
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…
August 9, 2021
Gender Dysphoria: A Therapeutic Model for Working with Children, Adolescents and Young Adults
Gender Dysphoria: A Therapeutic Model for Working with Children, Adolescents and Young Adults (Phoenix Publishing House, 2021) by Susan and Marcus Eva…
March 9, 2021
How to Flourish as a Psychotherapist
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…
December 31, 2020
The Theory and Practice of Psychoanalytic Therapy
“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…
September 2, 2020
The Life and Work of Joan Riviere
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…
July 14, 2020
Dark Times
"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…
May 20, 2020
The Psychoanalytic Ear and the Sociological Eye
In The Psychoanalytic Ear and the Sociological Eye: Toward an American Independent Tradition (Routledge 2020) Professor Nancy J. Chodorow gives name a…
November 15, 2019
Bombs in the Consulting Room
"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…
September 23, 2019
The Fear of Doing Nothing
"Psychotherapy, in my experience, feels nothing like a paper about psychotherapy." In his honest, witty and at times deeply moving account of his g…