Antonia Sieler

Antonia Sieler is a research assistant and doctoral candidate in the sub-project S08 - The diverse psyche in Therapy: Sex/Gender Knowledge in West German Psychotherapy (1990-2020) of the Collaborative Research Center Sexdiversity - Determinants, meanings and implications of gender diversity in sociocultural, medical and biological contexts at the Institute for History of Medicine and Science Studies (IMGWF) at the University of Lübeck.

Antonia is a psychologist (M.Sc.) and psychodynamic psychotherapist in training. She studied psychology in Münster, Paris and Utrecht and completed minor subjects in gender studies. In her teaching and research activities to date, as well as in her clinical work, she has focused on queer-feminist and anti-discriminatory perspectives on healthcare, psychology and psychotherapy.

She worked in psychiatric and psychosocial institutions and as a student assistant at the Charité in the BUA-funded interdisciplinary research project ‘Transforming Solidarities - Practices and Infrastructures in the Migration Society’.

Main research areas:

• Structural discrimination and (mental) health
• (Queer) feminist perspectives on psychology and psychotherapy
• (Queer) feminist narratives since 1970
• History of psychology, psychotherapy and psychiatry
• Qualitative research methods