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SYMPOSIUM - Psychotherapists, Psychologists and Psychiatrists in Feature Films and Series
Thursday July 17, 2025 15:00 - 16:30 CEST
Lecture Hall 2002
Chair: Martin Poltrum, Dennis Henkel

Dennis Henkel (Cologne)
Psychiatry and medicine in silent film (1895-1930)

Martin Poltrum (Vienna)
Connoisseurs of the soul, psycho villains –– psychotherapists in feature films (1925-2006)

Rainer Gross (Vienna)
“Hollywood’s love affair with psychoanalysis. Saving the patient through transference love.” Alfred Hitchcock’s Spellbound (1945)

Ulf Heuner (Berlin)
The sad psychotherapist in the TV series Monk (2002-2009)
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Dennis Henkel

About the person:Dr. Dennis Henkel studied art history, film studies and philosophy and later medicine at the university of cologne. He has been working as a clinical physician in the fields of neurology and psychiatry since 2019. Since 2020, he has also been teaching at the Institute... Read More →
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Ulf Heuner

About the person:Ulf Heuner works as an editor in Berlin. He studied Philosophy and Theatre Studies in Erlangen and Berlin. 1999 Doctorate at the University of Leipzig. 2005-2021 owner of Parodos Verlag (publishing house). Book publications include: Tragisches Handeln in Raum und... Read More →
Thursday July 17, 2025 15:00 - 16:30 CEST
Lecture Hall 2002
  Interdisciplinary Subjects, Symposium-90

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