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Friday July 18, 2025 15:45 - 16:30 CEST
In essence, politicians are employees of the citizens who have to pay for their services and in democracies are enabled to elect them in elections. This is why politicians should keep an eye on the well-being of their employers.
The identification of essential human psychological needs makes it possible to define the desirable core goals of politics. These include human relationships, active conduct, sense of coherence, and healthy stress levels. A political system should guarantee its people freedom and support in these four basic needs.
In addition, understanding psychodynamics makes it possible to prevent spirals of regression, which tend to lead to violence and catastrophe, in times of heightened stress in society.
Education in basic psychodynamics on all levels of society is required to enable progress towards a world of psychologically mature, responsive, and self-determined citizens.
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Hans-Otto Thomashoff

About the person:Hans-Otto Thomashoff, MD, PhD, lives and works in Vienna as psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (Vienna Psychoanalytic Society). Based on his PhD in art history he specializes in psychodynamic approaches for the understanding of art. He is an honorary member of the World... Read More →
Friday July 18, 2025 15:45 - 16:30 CEST
Lecture Hall 305-306

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