A therapist no longer listens to her answering machine, a psychiatrist writes on his website: Please refrain from inquiries until June 2022.
For some years now, Germans have had a growing need to undergo psychotherapy.
It has grown since the beginning of the pandemic.
Just getting a therapy place is difficult for those affected.
Sometimes they wait six to eight months, says Dietrich Munz, President of the Chamber of Psychotherapists.
A little longer in rural areas.
Why is that and what is being done about it?
Timo Steppat
Editor in politics.
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Why is it that requests from psychotherapists have increased in recent years?
Has mental health deteriorated or is the subject just removed from the taboo?
The psychoanalyst Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber speaks about it, she was the head of the Sigmund Freud Institute in Frankfurt for a long time.
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