If you are in immediate danger or thinking about harming yourself, get help now. Visit a nearby emergency service, hospital, or mental health clinic. If you are in crisis, these helplines can help:
Crisis numbers in Germany
- TelefonSeelsorge, for anyone who needs to talk: Tel: 0800 1110111 | Tel: 0800 1110222 | Tel: 116 123. 24 hours.
- Berliner Krisendienst, for mental health crises: Tel: 030 390 63 10. 24 hours. Weekdays 8am to 4pm: information and referral only; crisis support at all other times.
- MuTeS, Muslim pastoral and crisis line: Tel: 030 443 509 821. 24 hours.
- krisenchat, crisis support by chat: Chat: chat.krisenchat.de. 24 hours. For under-25s.
- Kinder- und Jugendtelefon, for children, young people and young adults: Tel: 116 111. Monday to Saturday, 2pm to 8pm.
- All crisis lines in Germany
This page lists Depression Psychoanalysts in Berlin. 4 in all.
How depression is treated
Effective psychological treatments include behavioural activation and cognitive-behavioural therapy 1. Interpersonal psychotherapy and problem-solving therapy are also used. In the World Health Organization's words: ‘Psychological treatments are the first treatments for depression.’ ‘They can be combined with antidepressant medicines in moderate and severe depression.’
Effective treatment exists for mild, moderate and severe depression. A depressive episode means low mood, or loss of interest in things you enjoyed. It lasts most of the day, nearly every day, for at least two weeks.
Low mood after a loss or a hard year is not automatically a disorder, though support can help. Ask a practitioner what they would suggest, and why.
What a psychoanalyst does, and how often the sessions run
Everyone on this page describes their work as psychoanalysis or psychoanalytic therapy. You talk as freely as you can, and the analyst listens for patterns. The analyst also listens for how those patterns appear between you both.
Analysis usually means several meetings a week, agreed between you and the analyst. Psychoanalytic psychotherapy uses the same ideas once or twice a week.
The work runs open-ended rather than to a fixed number of sessions.
What this page filters on
These are the only filters: the specialism recorded as Depression and the professional title psychoanalyst.
The Berlin page answers more questions about therapy there.
Paying for therapy in Berlin
Do affordable options exist in Berlin?
Bezirksamt Lichtenberg Sozialpsychiatrischer Dienst. Phone +49 30 90296 7562. The district states that its social-psychiatric offers are free of charge. Adults with mental illness or mental-health problems may use the service. That includes depression, anxiety, serious social difficulties and related psychosocial problems, and relatives or close contacts may also come. Consultation can be anonymous, and the district publishes open consultation hours.
Who registers therapists in Germany?
See the Germany page for the professions that do carry a register there.
What these practitioners record
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References
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Vincenzo (Enzo) Sinisi, Clinical Psychologist (HPCSA), Psychoanalyst (IPA/SAPA), Group Analyst (IGA)