Prof. Thomas Bock in conversation with Prof. Ingo Schäfer, special outpatient clinic for trauma-related disorders, UKE Hamburg. How can psychiatry better recognize the consequences of experiences of violence in those affected and contribute to their healing instead of further stress? Certain experiences force each of us to step out of reality. In this way, experiences of violence can also contribute to mental illness. Social relationships in particular determine whether resilience is stronger. Psychiatry is still often too clumsy with the topic; some structures and experiences contribute to retraumatization. What does it mean in this context to treat in a trauma-sensitive manner? Prof. Schäfer is one of the leading experts on traumatization in people with mental illnesses. The lectures in the winter semester 21/22 revolve around the topic: "Confronting violence" What can we do to confront violence, to counteract the risk of experiencing violence - in connection with the development, course and treatment of mental illnesses? Mentally ill people have often been and are victims, and much less often perpetrators. Many violent or sexual assaults occur in close proximity; that is, relatives can also be perpetrators and victims under great stress (they are involved in two ways). Coercion and violence can also be present in many forms in psychiatry - from patients, from staff, from security services, institutionally or informally... In the trialogue, (potential) victims and perpetrators meet - does this help us to learn from each other? - What does dream-sensitive treatment mean in this context? Which structures, concepts, methods and relationship cultures help us to reduce the likelihood of violence? How do we endure and understand that families are very often fundamentally important as a support and refuge, but can sometimes become a place where violence arises? And does it help us to realise that this also applies regardless of mental illness, that a person's ability and willingness to use violence has nothing to do with mental illness? Since its launch in 2000, the aim of the lecture series "Anthropological Psychiatry" has been to convey a human image of mental illness, not to reduce it to deviations from norms or the result of derailed transmitters. From this perspective, the necessary help also takes on a political dimension: helpful psychiatry needs good social, housing and municipal policies. With benefits for everyone: what is good for mentally sensitive people means mental hygiene for everyone. Prevention requires politics. This series of events is a cooperation between the University of Hamburg, the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Irre menschlich Hamburg eV and psychenet. About the person: Thomas Bock is a professor of clinical psychology and social psychiatry and a psychological psychotherapist. In this online lecture series at the University of Hamburg, he invites various people to dialogue. Each semester highlights a thematic aspect.