About the website and its author:
Öresund Bridge, photographed from the plane as it landed in Copenhagen.
A brief introduction to this blog.
Extract from the in-depth interview with the author of this blog:
What does Greetings from the Centre mean? What does Yoda’s Couch mean? What are the Salons?
What is the motivation? What is the intellectual background? What does post-integrative mean? And what is the moral of the story?
Yoda's couch: Sigmund Freud from Vienna, Yoda and R2D2 from the Star Wars universe.
Information about the author of this blog, the texts he writes and his intellectual background.
Conversations:
My Salon is a fictional stage.
Characters from reality and fiction present their views and concepts in a debate.
A selfie can be taken quickly,
Self-esteem takes more time.
A fictional roundtable discussion with guests: a Zen master, an Indian guru, a psychotherapist and a neuropsychologist discuss how self-image and self-esteem develop.
The self finds resonance in the context of people, space and events. This is how self-images and self-awareness develop. Self-esteem is shaped by the quality of relationships and develops over time.
Tosca places a crucifix on the chest of Scarpia, whom she has just killed.
Emancipation and reconciliation are interdependent.
A fictional roundtable discussion on patricide and reconciliation. An Indian guru, Master Yoda, Tyrion Lannister, Giacomo Puccini, a psychoanalyst and a psychotherapist discuss the psychological concept of patricide. They use examples from the opera Tosca, the film Star Wars, the television series Game of Thrones and a psychotherapy case report.
History, politics, culture and therapeutic practice are full of examples where emancipation or generational change is only possible through murder (literal and figurative). The murder may be real or symbolic. Metaphorical patricide can be the overthrow or dissolution of authority.
In the discussion, the speakers conclude that lasting emancipation also requires inner reconciliation.
NEPOMUK, patron saint of bridges. Statue near the wooden bridge in Rheinau.
The outer judge, the inner judge:
debt – guilt – shame.
Conversation between the lawyer Dr. Urs Egli and the psychotherapist Dr. med. Marc Melchert.
For the lawyer, debt is a major cultural innovation. Labour is given a tradable value. The external judge (the law of obligations) regulates the relationships arising from debts.
For the psychotherapist, feelings of guilt are not feelings, but the cognitive abstraction of feelings of shame. The inner judge wants to dissolve dependencies in order to achieve autonomy.
Thoughts Of A Seeker
Publications:
Projects of mine that have been published elsewhere.
Jo Achim Werner talks to Marc Melchert about shame.
An interview on ’shame and shaming‘:
The distinction between the person and the project when dealing with children.
«Shame is actually a healthy emotion; it reminds us that we live in a community and should therefore respect boundaries.»
Without someone to talk to, patients lose the ability to describe their suffering.
I now have to do something very unpleasant that I have never had to do in my career as a doctor. An awkward silence, a long pause, then the young doctor pulls herself together. I will ask you directly and openly: «How are you?»
The old man in the patient’s chair smiles and says, ‘Don’t be ashamed. When I was your age, we asked our patients questions like, ‘How are you?’ ‘How are you feeling today?’ The young doctor freezes, looks at her older colleague in disbelief and says loudly and excitedly, ’But did the patients know how to answer that?’
The Analyst
The first book by Peter Stickland und Marc Melchert.
Hans Thomas Hakl talks about the book: ‘The Analyst’
Hans Thomas Hakl spricht über das Buch: «The Analyst»
Gradual Disappearance
The second book by Peter Stickland and Marc Melchert.
Despite these tricks, it is their search for the truth, their generous friendship and their analytical insights that help them find some kind of path through the complexities that face them.
Psychosomatik: Der Mensch als Schnittstelle von Polaritäten
Hans Thomas Hakl im Gespräch mit Marc Melchert zum Thema Psychosomatik.
Der entstandene Raum in der Polarität von Seele und Körper ist weder das Eine noch das Andere, er ist sowohl das Eine wie auch das Andere.
Business-Partnerschaften erfolgreich eingehen
Ein Buch von Kurt Schöb mit Hilfe von Marc Melchert
Wer plant, den Wunsch nach beruflicher Selbstständigkeit zusammen mit einem Team aus gleichberechtigten Partnerinnen umzusetzen – sei es als Start-up oder als klassische Unternehmensgründung -, steht vor der schwierigen Entscheidung, mit wem die Idee am besten Realität werden kann.
Die narzisstische Depression
Plädoyer für den Diagnosebegriff Narzisstische Depression.
Mit diesem Begriff wird der Therapeut daran erinnert, dass bei der Therapie dieser Thematik auch sein eigener Narzissmus relevant ist.
Das Geheimnis glücklicher und erfolgreicher Kinder
Eine Hör-Dokumentation.
Ein Erziehungswissenschaftler, ein Psychotherapeut und ein Journalist sprechen über: Pädagogik, Hirnforschung und Psychologie.
Im Beitrag ist eine Hörprobe.
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