Fellow 2023/2024 Timo Storck
Timo Storck studied psychology at the University of Bremen from 2000 to 2005, later adding philosophy and theology (without a degree). After writing his diploma thesis on the concept of sublimation, he obtained his PhD at the University of Bremen in 2010 with a thesis on the artistic creation process.
He was a research assistant at the University of Bremen from 2006 to 2008 and at the University of Kassel from 2009 to 2015, where he earned his habilitation in 2016 with a thesis on case conferences in inpatient psychotherapy. Between 2008 and 2015, he trained as a psychological psychotherapist (specializing in psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy) and worked in a clinic for psychiatry and psychotherapy as well as in a clinic for psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy. Since 2016, he has been working in private practice in Heidelberg. Between 2014 and 2016, he was a research assistant at the Clinic for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (Medical University of Vienna). Since 2015, he is professor for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at Psychologische Hochschule Berlin. His research focuses include: conceptual skills in psychotherapy, conceptual research and methodology, psychoanalytic theory of illness, film psychoanalysis. He is co-editor of several journals (e.g. "Psychoanalyse - Texte zur Sozialforschung") and book series (e.g. "Im Dialog: Psychoanalyse und Filmtheorie") and a member of various organizations, including being part of the delegate assembly of the Berlin Psychotherapist Chamber and an expert at the Institute for Medical and Pharmaceutical Examination Questions.