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Patricia von Papstein
lives by a basic credo:
There is no Ultimate Formula for Healing!
She enjoys to be invited for speeches and encounters around the following topics:
Easing Tomorrow
How do we escape the temptation of putting the future in a straight-jacket?
Imagine fantasy, illusion, imagination conducted with child-like resoluteness — guided by subtle disobedience, and attuned to the rhythms of life itself.
Patricia invites us into those unburdened mind spheres where business, industries and products carry a dadaistic flair — playful, irreverent, and deeply alive.
In this world, progress isn’t measured in efficiency but in vitality. Her stories are examples of a gentle, successful rebellion: against the patronizing logic of dominance, and immortality.
Tender Code
How do we create AI that truly supports the human condition?
At the intersection of emotional compulsion and technological precision, a quiet battle unfolds. Where code meets emotion, the machine’s demand for clarity risks flattening the contradictory beauty of human feeling. The algorithm seeks precision; the soul thrives in paradox.
Patricia explores how we might bypass the machine’s inability to grasp emotional context — not by forcing AI to imitate us, but by redefining what we expect from it.
She asks: When does our obsession with “teaching” machines empathy begin to erode our own capacity for it?
The true challenge is ensuring that, in our rush to optimize intelligence, we do protect our ablity to feel and sense, and not make AI more human.
Unruly Care
How reliable are our current maps of defining human mental health?
For centuries, psychology has tried to decode the human mind — from Freud’s dreamscapes to behaviorism’s experiments, from the brain scans of neuroscience to the algorithms of AI.
Each school of thought has mirrored its time: psychoanalysis rose with the birth of modern individuality; behaviorism thrived in the age of industry; neuroscience bloomed with biomedicine; and AI reflects our current faith in computation.
Patricia´s research exposes the blind spots in our inherited models of care. She proposes what she calls “unruly mental health care” — an approach that refuses to simplify the psyche. It sees healing not as compliance with a system but as inventive escape from what harms us .