Living the Void. New Authoritarianism, Psychosocial Defense Mechanisms and the Inability of Learning from Experience in the 21st Century

Psychoanalyst, training analyst and supervisor (DPG/IPA), and the senior professor of clinical psychology and psychoanalysis, at the International Psychoanalytic University, Berlin. He is Chair of the IPA committee Psychoanalysis and the University and Chair of the Köhler Foundation, Essen, Germany. Main research areas are: scenic-narrative microanalysis, film psychoanalysis, social trauma. He has written several recent books: A. Hamburger, C. Hancheva & V. Volkan (eds.), Social Trauma – An Interdisciplinary Textbook (Springer Nature, 2020); V. Pramataroff-Hamburger & A. Hamburger (eds.), From La Strada to The Hours – Suffering and Sovereign Women in the Movies (Springer, 2024); A. Hamburger, Film Psychoanalysis – Relational Approaches to Film Interpretation (Routledge, 2024), A. Hamburger (Ed.), Screening the Scars – The Cinematic (In)Visibility of Social Trauma (Karnac, 2024). Mertens, W. & Hamburger, A. (Eds.), Handbook of Basic Psychoanalytic Concepts (Routledge, 2026). His theater play, The Last Session, written with Vivian Pramataroff-Hamburger, premiered at Sofia Nationial Theater September 16^th, 2025.