Publications

The Conversation as Identity Protection

The key to memory is often hidden under the doormat

We like to imagine memories as dust-free folders in a well-organized archive: once stored, they remain safely kept. Reality is more vivid – and more delicate. Each time we remember, we not only take the folder out, we tear it open, unconsciously rearrange, add, omit. In that moment, neuroscientists say, the content is “labile.” It undergoes minutes, sometimes hours, in which it can be reshaped. The technical term is reconsolidation. Only once it is “stored” again is it considered stable – but by then it is no longer the same. [more...]

Two Sages and a Child

The Needle’s Eye of Our Language – and How to Lead a Camel Through It

How do you carry big ideas through the narrow channel of words without losing their force? A story of mountain peaks, messengers, and images — and of how language becomes alive inside another person. [more...]

Subjective Well-Being as a Reference Variable in the Feedback Process: Model Considerations on Oscillatory Capacity and Self-Regulation

A theoretical model that understands subjective well‑being as a central, oscillatory feedback variable in the body’s regulatory system. Building on biofeedback research, it argues that this variable provides continuous feedback on the functionality of autonomic processes. Restrictions in oscillatory capacity — for example through depression, persistently positively biased feedback under the influence of psychoactive substances, or physiologically positive stress — lead to one‑sided signaling and thus reduced precision of regulation. [more...]

The Silent Collection – Part 1: The Dossier Takes Shape

Not everyone who takes an interest in you wants to help you

What others truly know about you often only becomes visible when you get too close to a sun. What follows is no accident but the calculated result of quiet, targeted collection – often over years. Each piece of information waits – inconspicuous and unused. On call, ready for the day of revelation: when loyalties cool, alliances break, or careers collide. On that day it becomes a precise weapon. [more...]

The Silent Collection – Part 2: Survival

Advantage through preparation: how to remain capable of action

Whether it comes loud and visible or begins quietly – the day of attack does not strike according to plan, but in the open, at full speed. Those unprepared lose time with reactions that should long have been trained. Now it is not about how you react, but whether you are prepared: with clear rules, rehearsed routines, and a story you tell yourself. [more...]