Leon Brenner

My approach to psychotherapy stands distinct within the vast landscape of mental health practices. As a Lacanian psychoanalyst, I am not here to provide answers or direct your life's choices. Instead, my expertise lies in crafting questions that guide you deeper into your own narrative, encouraging a dialogue with the self that often remains unheard. Through careful listening and strategic interventions, I facilitate a dialogue with your unconscious, helping you to articulate and navigate the complexities of your inner world. Psychoanalysis, as I practice it, is founded on the principle that you are the sole author of your life decisions. My role is to create an environment that supports you in making these decisions in the most authentic and uncompromised way possible. In our sessions, your speech is the key to unlocking the transformative potential of your experiences. By speaking freely about your memories, dreams, and fantasies, you engage in a process aimed at transforming suffering into desire, or finding satisfaction from the very source of your pain. It is in this speaking that you may discover the capacity to confront and make the difficult choices that have eluded you, bringing about a profound shift in perspective. Read more about my approach on my website: https://leonbrenner.com/

I have worked as a lecturer in the following universities: Duke University, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, North Carolina, USA, University of Vermont, U.S.A., Ghent University, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Belgium, National University of Ireland, Galway, University of Essex, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, UK, Middle East Technical University, Psychology Department, Ankara, Turkey, Utrecht University, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, U.S.A., Bar-Ilan University, Ruhr Universität Bochum, University of Potsdam, Institute for Philosophy, Haifa University, Tel-Aviv University, Charité Medical University of Berlin, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, International Psychoanalytic University (IPU), Berlin, University of Nikosia, Cyprus. I have provided training for practitioners in the following advance training institutes: The Institute of Psychosis Therapy, Copenhagen, Denmark, Lacan Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Freud Lacan institute (FLi), Dublin, Ireland, Ethos Psikoloji Danismanlik Merkezi, Istanbul, Turkey, Valley Community Counseling Clinic, Los Angeles, USA, Chicago Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology, Chicago, USA, The Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (MITPP), New York City, New York, North West Regional Psychotherapy Association (NWRPA), Manchester, UK, Institut für Philosophie, Psychoanalyse und Kulturwissenschaften (IPPK), Berlin, Centre for Lacanian Analysis, Auckland, New Zealand, Study Groups on Psychoanalysis and Politics, Washington, USA, Lacanian Orientation Berlin, New Lacanian School (NLS), Berlin, CanBridge Academy for Autism Treatment, Chennai, India, California Institute of Integral Studies, The Clinic Without Walls (TCWOW), San Francisco, USA, The Lacan Circle of Australia, Melbourne, Australia, Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research (CFAR), London, UK, Irish Circle of the Lacanian Orientation (ICLO), Dublin, Ireland, Lacanian Affinities Berlin (laLAB), Psychoanalytische Bibliothek, Berlin, Stillpointspaces Berlin. Memberships: Lacansche Orientierung Berlin (New Lacanian School) Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Ireland (APPI) Autism Ethics Network (AEN) Critical Autism Network (CAN) Editor: European Journal of Psychoanalysis (EJP) Journal of HARM! The Journal of Hostility, Anger, Repression and Malice Founder: Lacanian Affinities Berlin (laLAB) Unconscious Berlin For access to some of my lectures: https://leonbrenner.com/video-library/ For Unconscious Berlin: https://unconscious.berlin/ For Lacanian Affinities Berlin: https://lacanberlin.com/

I have been qualified to provide psychotherapy for patients in Germany under the rubric of the Erlaubnis zur berufsmäßigen Ausübung der Heilkunde ohne Bestallung- beschränkt auf das Gebiet der Psychotherapie (Heilpraktiker für Psychotherapie). I have received my doctoral degree (Ph.D.) in 2019, researching the psychoanalytic treatment of autism. Since then, I have published many works in the field of psychoanalysis in scientific journals and books. I have been studying and doing my formation as a psychoanalyst in the New Lacanian School for more than a decade and have been working in private practice since 2020.