Mission Anxiety?

Anxiety is an inherent human emotion which often manifests itself, right from birth, in the form of separation anxiety. This is most commonly experienced as a result of suffocation; the result of a prolonged birth process where the umbilical cord becomes twisted around the infant’s neck, the result of torture, abuse or experiences of violence.

Such feelings of anxiety become permanently imprinted in our emotional memory. Anything which we experience after this point, which reminds us (consciously or unconsciously) of the suffocation or violence which we have previously suffered, can cause an immediate re-emergence of our dormant feelings of anxiety. In this lecture, documents providing poof of maternal violence will be used to illustrate the close association between the current fears of patients and the experiences of separation or violence which they suffered as a baby or child.

Dr Rainer Rehberger is an independent practitioner and psychotherapist. He most frequently publishes material addressing separation anxiety, grief and compulsive hoarding.

Subsequent panel discussion with Professor Knut Schnell and Professor König. Buy Tickets