Looking back, 2022 flew by and saw us exploring new ways, but also deepening known trails. Cold showers are the new warm showers now, impathy is here to stay, placebos might replace penance, Mozart might have been more appreciative of Irving Kirsch than he was with Franz Anton Mesmer and what we could do to replacement, reduction, refinement animal research are just a few steps into new territory and there is more to come. As mentioned in the last annual report, the division has undergone some considerable brain drain, but seeing how their places are picked up by new ideas and new people as much as seeing how well those who left for new horizons now flourish and bloom, is just as rewarding as reassuring. However, there will be some changes to come. First, our research will step up the open-label placebo to see how it fares in the harsh winds of clinical reality. Second, our understanding of individual change wil be made available for pressing societal problems, such as climate change. We need to change and we know what is needed for this. Third, our models and ideas deserves to see the daylight to take root and grow and thus our approach will be cooperational, reaching out to other disciplines and colleagues. There is still a lot to explore! Looking forward... JG/March 2023
Antje Frey Nascimento, Nadja Heimgartner, Emil Nissen, Magdalena Ridder, Juliana Forster, Albiona Kiska, Julia Wichmann, Dilan Sezer, Judith Alder, Berfin Bakis, Sarah Bürgler, Yoon Phaik Ooi, Sara Hotz, Jana Hochreuter, Rainer Bürki, Lena Glaser, Yannick Schulz, Marc Inderbinen, Oliva Andereggen, Emma Marchal-Jones, Marnie Reed, Otto Schmid, Oleksandr Tokhtamysh, Ronan Zimmermann, Clara Bruhin, Cora Wagner and Jens Gaab
The division is now hosts four postgraduate psychotherapy trainings, which complement our contextual, processual and humanistic understanding of psychological interventions. In 2022, all our trainings (CAS in Motivational Interviewing, CAS in Animal-Assisted Therapy, Master of Advanced Studies in Person-centered Psychotherapy and the Master of Advanced Studies in Process-based Psychotherapy) were running on full steam and in several cohorts, summing up to over 120 students.
Oliva Andereggen, Magdalena Ridder, Juliana Forster, Albiona Kiska, und Julia Wichmann
The Center for Psychotherapy keeps on growing and we again outperformed last years numbers in appointments, with a mean number of appointments per month of 354, which constitutes yet another substandial increase from last year. In 2022, our specialized services for internationals and their families, for students of the University of Basel, in animal-assisted psychotherapy at the Bäumlihof and our cost-free Uraine support services to all members of the University of Basel was highly sought after. The mean numbers of appointments per month for 2022 and since the start of the Center for Psychotherapy are shown in the graph below.