Themes
Lemon Tree research and events are based on a set of core projects. The current page contains on overview of each of those projects. Click on any of the projects to find out more details and associated events!
Psychodynamic thinking
Psychodynamic thinking is a style of thinking about human beings and the challenges they face in life that is characteristic of psychoanalysis but can also be found in literature and theatre. This...
Anxiety
In 2019, 301 million people lived with an anxiety disorder including 58 million children. Anxiety is the most common psychological complaint worldwide and has only increased in recent decades,...
Art of suffering
Artists have often explored suffering in their artworks as well as living through challenging experiences that they make art from. What can we learn from practices of making art about the art of...
The Multiple Dimensions of the Identity Crisis in Psychiatry
There is a consensus that the field of psychiatry is facing a multidimensional crisis. The crisis has an epistemological dimension: there is widespread doubt concerning the validity of symptoms and...
Deep Brain Stimulation
Deep Brain Stimulation is an experimental technique for the treatment of psychiatric disorders in which electrodes are implanted deep in the brain that modulate electrically brain networks. The...
Phenomenology and lived experience of mental suffering
While there has been significant investment in medical research concerning the causes of psychiatric disorders, less attention has been given to the lived experience of subjective experience. In...
Autonomy and mental suffering
Each year one in four people in the Netherlands will develop a diagnosable mental disorder such as a mood disorder, anxiety disorder or addiction (Nemesis 3, Trimbos Institute). Why is there so much...
Boxing psychotherapy
Boxing training has recently been combined with psychotherapy for the treatment of refractory PTSD and for patients suffering from underlying trauma and negative experiences in childhood. Boxing...