Thomas Jontza

Biography

A former hospital practitioner, I trained as a psychiatrist and psychoanalytically-oriented psychotherapist at PLK Weissenau, a university hospital at Ulm University in Germany. I was lucky enough to grow up in a politically committed, caring and innovative therapeutic environment, for which I remain grateful and close to. I am also a family therapist (trained by C. Gammer). Under the direction of Prof. Hole I taught hypnosis in the training of psychotherapeutic physicians in Germany, later in Zurich, Switzerland at the Burgh√∂lzli University Psychiatric Clinic. Practicing for many years in Paris, I am a Praticien Attaché in Addictology at the HEGP/AP-HP. At my practice in the city, I now use so-called behavioral approaches (e.g. DBT, Schema Therapy) in the follow-up of my psychiatric patients and in psychotherapy.

Conference: Where does time fit in mental illness?

Psychiatry encounters time on several intertwined levels: biological time, subject time, psycho-social time… The (philosophical, psychiatric, scientific) current of phenomenology has taught us a great deal about this “embodied mind”. I’ll first try to give an idea of how to “feel” time through a brief mental state of meditation or hypnosis, before returning to psychiatry, to our diagnoses, and to a few mental illnesses such as post-traumatic disorders, depression, grief, and other disorders that make time come alive and induce a different psychopathology. I’ll conclude with a few remarks on time in psychotherapy.