Perhaps you’ve experienced this in your own daily life, or you know someone in whom you’ve observed something like this before. You might be wondering why this happens and how it can be prevented. Sometimes, news of events or environmental influences can throw us off balance and destabilize us psychologically. When we lose our balance, it depends on many different factors.

What are these factors? Does it depend on how information and risks are communicated? Does timing play a role? How should we deal with this? How can we influence our mental stability? How can we take precautions for ourselves and others? Men are more likely to take their own lives than women. How do men’s and women’s thoughts and actions differ? What barriers prevent men from seeking help? Why, for example, do men go for cancer screenings less often?

This lecture provides insights into our research.

Program: "We Research. For You.” (internal link)

About the Speaker: Dr. Franziska Bäßler studied medicine in Freiburg, Spain, and the U.S. She is a research group leader in the Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics at Heidelberg University Hospital and a WIN Fellow at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, working on the project “Physical, Bodily, and Mental Stability in Extreme Situations.” Her research areas include communication, health services research, and improving the education and training of (prospective) physicians, as well as communication barriers in cancer prevention.

About the lecture series: This public lecture series has been taking place for over 20 years now, featuring scientists from the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities as well as from its seven sister academies. The lectures are aimed at a broad audience to provide insights into the research. Afterward, there is an opportunity to chat with the researchers over pretzels and wine in the Academy’s Hofgarten.

We are grateful that the vhs Heidelberg also promotes this series.

Upcoming lectures, every Wednesday at 6:15 p.m.:

• June 19, 2024: Excerpting as a Foundation. News from the Marx-Engels Collected Works (internal link)
• July 3, 2024: Women’s Spaces: Ceiling Paintings in Baroque Residences Commissioned by or for Women (internal link)
• June 17, 2024: Not Just in Hebrew. How the Jewish Middle Ages Read the Bible (internal link)

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