Publications

ƎMIT‑TIME Services

No one has ever asked for their money back.

A room. Metal, glass, a display, a faint hum. A cursor blinks. A screen. A logo: “ƎMIT‑TIME Services – We take you back to your happiest moment.” [more...]

See a Psychologist While They Still Exist

From a Discipline to a Quarry

That was the title of an article published in late 2025 by Karl‑Heinz Meisters – at a time when people were just beginning to experiment with AI for therapeutic purposes. Almost ten years have passed since then. Time for a retrospective – and a few bitter punchlines. [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 Solution Lies in Depth

The Secret of the Third Level

Our reality is multi‑layered — and not every level offers a path to resolution. Yet sometimes, precisely where all visible doors seem locked, a quiet passage opens that few notice — and it can change more than any debate ever could. [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...]

Lessons in Humanity

For Judy and Jim

Sometimes something begins so quietly that you only notice it once it has long since become part of you. An encounter that becomes a lesson – about closeness, loss, and the fine art of finding meaning in the invisible. Between glances that say more than words and moments that remain forever, a story unfolds about what we call humanity. [more...]

A Toast to Hairdressers and Taxi Drivers

A greeting among colleagues

A barber’s chair, a taxi – often this is where a conversation begins that is more than just passing the time. Between haircut and destination, a modest, protected space emerges where words flow and worries grow quieter. A story about those who listen without mandate – and make an impact without saying it aloud. [more...]

The Pickle Question

A long-overdue psychological-culinary keynote

The little cucumber – Cucumis sativus var. cornichon – traditionally appears in fine cubes, preserved in vinegar, as the gustatory breaking point in an otherwise uniform pasta salad. It is symbol and bone of contention, dining-table diplomat and reason for divorce in a single crunchy appearance. [more...]

Wake-Up Call

Reflections on all kinds of cutting tools

Psychological counseling beyond medical treatment is like a Swiss Army knife: versatile, flexible, first choice for many situations. Psychotherapy is like a scalpel: precise, specialized, legally regulated. Both tools have their place – but they are of course not the same.

Once upon a time there was a pocketknife that found itself in a world full of scalpels. [more...]

The “Kill Switch”

Avoiding remote access to essential security apps

One often feels safe: the app is vetted, encrypted, and comes from a trusted store. Signal, Threema, VeraCrypt, Cryptomator – names like rocks in the surf. Yet above them all hovers an invisible lever – the so‑called “kill switch.” [more...]

Counseling 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...]