Talking to the dead - is that really possible? PULS Reportage has never been so personal! Reporter Ariane Alter lost her father at the age of 21. For a long time, she was unable to allow herself to grieve. During the grieving period, many people reach the point where they would like to talk to the person again and clarify any open questions. People who call themselves mediums supposedly offer precisely this kind of contact with the afterlife. As mediators between the physical and spiritual worlds, they are supposed to be able to establish contact between people and the deceased. Contact with the afterlife via a medium cannot be scientifically proven. That is why in this report with Ariane we explore the question: But what if contact with the afterlife works? And can a session with a medium help Ari to cope with grief? #PULSReportage #Reportage #medium #contactwiththebeyond #spirituality ---------- ++ Acute help: Telephone counseling, free & anonymous, available 24/7 ???? 0800 – 111 0 111 or 0800 – 111 0 222 ???? Online chat at online.telefonseelsorge.de ???? App “KrisenKompass” Number against grief, free & anonymous ???? Children & youth telephone: 116 111 (Mon-Sat 2-8 p.m.) ???? Parents’ telephone: 0800 – 111 0 550 (Mon-Fri 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Tues & Thurs until 7 p.m.) ???? Online & chat advice at nummergegenkummer.de KRISENCHAT 24/7 help & advice for everyone under 25 years ???? Free chat on WhatsApp or SMS ???? All information on Krisenchat.de FIDEO online forum “Fighting Depression Online” (from the German Depression Help Foundation): Information, exchange, self-help ???? Fideo.de ---------- Sources for critical discussion on the topic: Auchter, Thomas (2019): Grief. Gießen. Brosius, Hans-Bernd /Haas, Alexander/Koschel, Friederike (2016): Methods of empirical communication research. An introduction. Wiesbaden. Bührig, Kristin (ed.) (2005): Nonverbal communication in conversation. Oldenburg (= Osnabrücker Beiträge zur Sprachtheorie; 70). Falkai, Peter/Laux, Gerd/ Deister, Arno/Möller, Hans-Jürgen (2022): Psychiatry, psychosomatics and psychotherapy. Stuttgart. Jungbauer, Johannes/Krockauer, Rainer (2013): Accompaniment, comfort and hope. Interdisciplinary contributions to dealing with dying, death and grief. Opladen. Vogel, Ralf/Frick, Eckhard (2022): Death issues in psychotherapy. An integrative handbook for working with dying, death and grief. Stuttgart. Wittwer, Héctor et al. (2020): Handbook of dying and death. History, theory, ethics. Berlin. ---------- Chapter overview 00:00 Can Ari contact her deceased father? 1:11 What relationship did Ari have with her father? 2:25 Dealing with the loss 3:29 Is it all hocus-pocus? 4:25 What does science say? 5:19 Ari with the medium 6:20 Psychological background to mediumistic work 7:27 Can contact with the afterlife help with coping with grief? 8:00 The medium makes contact 9:43 The medium speaks to Ari's father 12:25 Ari's questions to her father 13:58 Has Ari gotten closer to her father? 16:00 Ari's conclusion ---------- Editors: Mathias Ahlmer, Sonja Röbig Camera: Jonas Schlögl Editing: Gloria Zettel Channel Management: Antonia Harbauer ---------- We are Ariane Alter, Sebastian Meinberg, Kevin Ebert and Leah Nlemibe from PULS Reportage. We want to answer the most important, most exciting and craziest questions of our generation. We are brave. We are curious. We push boundaries. And most importantly: We don't just talk about it, we try it out. For you! ✚ Follow us on TikTok for even more info and memes: / pulsreportage ✚ Follow us on Instagram for stories, surveys and quizzes: / pulsreportage ► Our community rules apply in the comments column: https://br.de/s/3hdcM5g ---------- PULS Reportage is part of PULS, the young content network of Bayerischer Rundfunk. Here you can find an overview of all PULS formats and events: / dein_puls ---------- ♫ All songs from this PULS report: Henry Terepka - Subsequent Procedure Lars Kurz - Charismatic Drifter Sufjan Stevens – Visions of Guideons Harry Styles – Fine Line Niels Frahm – Hands on Tom Rosenthal – Lights are on Bonobo – Rosewood Logan Piercey – Until the end Lars Kurz – Silent Drifter Anna Lapwood – Cornfield Chase Maxence Cyrin – Where is my mind Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds – O Children Blackfir3 – I need some sleep