Dipl.-Psych. Lena Dierker

Portrait

Since 2021
Research associate: Experience of anti-Semitism in the third generation. On the reactivation of extreme trauma in the descendants of survivors of the Shoah, Sigmund-Freud-Institute, Frankfurt a. M.

In training as a psychoanalyst, DPV (since 2015)

2020 – 2021
Psychosocial counselling, Studentenwerk Frankfurt a. M.

2018 – 2020
Scholarship, Project Starthilfe, Sigmund-Freud-Institut, Frankfurt a. M.

2018 – 2020
Darmstadt Clinic of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy

2016 – 2017
Psychological Psychotherapist apprentice, Darmstadt Clinic of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy & Friedberg Clinic of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

2016-2021
Research assistant: The Third Generation – Scenic Memory of the Shoah. A multi-method study on the impact of the Holocaust on survivors’ offspring in Germany, Sigmund-Freud-Institut, Frankfurt a. M.

2014-2015
Research assistant: Scenic Memory of the Shoah. On the transgenerational transmission of extreme trauma in Germany, Sigmund-Freud-Institut, Frankfurt a. M.

2008 – 2014
Diploma in Psychology, Goethe University, Frankfurt a. M.

Research projects

  • Experience of anti-Semitism in the third generation. On the reactivation of extreme trauma in the descendants of survivors of the Shoah (Scientific lead: Dr. Kurt Grünberg)
  • The Third Generation – Scenic Memory of the Shoah. A multi-method study on the impact of the Holocaust on survivors’ offspring in Germany (Scientific lead: Dr. Kurt Grünberg)
  • Scenic Memory of the Shoah. On the transgenerational transmission of extreme trauma in Germany, Sigmund-Freud-Institut, Frankfurt a. M. (Scientific lead: Dr. Kurt Grünberg & Dr. Friedrich Markert)

Presentations

10/2015
„… because it is too sad […] that we are fewer each time“. – On the interweaving of collectivity and extreme trauma during and after the Shoah – 4th Graduate Conference Challenging Collectivities, Goethe University Frankfurt