ABSTRACT
Gerhard Schneider is a DPhil, Dipl-Psych, Dipl-Math. He works in a private psychoanalytical practice in Mannheim, Germany. He is a training and supervising analyst of the German Psychoanalytic Association (DPV). He was on the board of the DPV from 2006 to 2012, and president of the DPV from 2008 to 2010. Dr Schneider was chair of the IPA Psychoanalysis and Culture Committee from 2009 to 2013. Dr Schneider came to psychoanalysis by way of mathematics—hardly the usual route for an analyst. Dr Schneider, wants the first meeting to be a brand new experience for him: “People come with their so-called ordinary lives that, like a new novel, unfold before one’s self, with all their depths and infinities. The analyst’s paradoxical state of mind keeps him away from finding a safe refuge in any sort of certainty. This thing will be true, and its opposite will also be true.
