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What is DENKDOKTER?
DENKDOKTER
Reflective conversations as an alternative to the medical track. Some visitors get stuck without there being illness. There is doubt, friction, confusion or a loss of direction, but no medical or psychological diagnosis. Yet these kinds of questions often end up in the medical circuit for lack of a suitable alternative. For the avoidance of doubt: DENKDOKTER is not a doctor, not a practitioner, and not a healthcare provider.
Alternative
DENKDOKTER offers exactly that alternative: a short, practical form of philosophical reflection that does not treat, does not diagnose, and does not add labels. We do not take over problems. We do not give advice. DENKDOKTER clarifies what is really going on and where a person does have influence.
Why use the word DOCTOR at all?
The wink is in the name, not in the conversation. The word doctor briefly evokes a familiar association, which is immediately brought back to its original meaning: making insight possible. In conversations we do not raise expectations; we only clarify what is already there. Historically, the word doctor does not mean physician, but teacher, interpreter, someone who makes insight possible (Latin: docere, to teach, to make understood). Only later was the term narrowed to the medical domain.
Insight
DENKDOKTER aligns with that original meaning: no treatment, but clarity; no diagnosis, but insight. The core of DENKDOKTER is a reflective stopover without medicalising. Low-threshold, independent, and focused on insight, ownership and responsibility.
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Phone: 06 – 25 367 047