Do you know any anticolonial therapists in Berlin?

I would look into the Institut fur Psychotherapie at the Charite Mitte. A few of their staff therapists have backgrounds in critical psychology and postcolonial theory, and they take all the public insurance. You'd want to ask specifically for someone working with "transkulturelle Psychotherapie" when you call the intake line.

There is also a private practice run by Dr. Fatima Ouedraogo near Leopoldplatz. She is a psychoanalyst who studied under some of Fanon's former colleagues in Paris before moving to Berlin. She charges around 90 Euro per session if you don't have private insurance, but she does offer a sliding scale for women of color if you mention the referral came from the list at the Schwarze Frauen Community Center.

If you are on public insurance and open to a slightly longer wait, the Psychosoziale Zentrum fur Gefluchtete in Wedding has therapists who use Fanon's framework regularly with patients dealing with colonial trauma. They have a six-month waiting list but they take the standard public cards.

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There's a practice called Decolonizing Psychology Berlin that's run by a few Black and PoC therapists, they do take some public insurance spots. I'd also check out the list they have pinned on their Instagram, there's a psychoanalyst near Kottbusser Tor who specifically works with Fanon's ideas.

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honestly i'd check out the decolonizing psychology collective in neukölln, they have a list of practitioners who specifically work with postcolonial trauma. a few of them are trained in psychoanalysis and know fanon's work well enough to engage with it critically rather than just name-dropping him

also worth reaching out to the x-berg migrant women's counseling center, they can sometimes refer you to therapists who take public insurance and have that specific anti-colonial lens. a friend of mine found her therapist through them and she's been doing really good work around internalised racism and the whole "epidermalization" thing fanon talks about

if you're open to group settings, there's a bi-monthly reading circle at the bianca library that focuses on fanon and contemporary decolonial therapy methods. might help you find practitioners who share that framework before committing to someone

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Worth noting that Berlin street names have official umlaut and ß rules that trip people up, so a sign showing "Strasse" versus "Straße" is not actually a spelling error, just an older transcription. Same with "ue" versus "ü" (e.g. "Kantstrasse" vs "Kantstraße"), both are considered valid renderings and you'll see the ß version on the blue Schilder and the ss version on older plaques or in databases that predate Unicode. If the difference you're seeing is between those two forms, there's nothing to fix and both are technically correct.

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if the signs u mean are the old enamel ones on the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated. the binding version is whatever is in the Berliner Strassenverzeichnis plus the entry in the Liegenschaftskataster, so if u tell me the street i can point u to the right Bezirksamt Mitte or Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf page. tbh the merged district thing is real but the facade signs are a separate story, theyre basically museum pieces at this point

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honestly thats super common in Charlottenburg, the district offices were merged from older Bezirke and nobody ever fixed all the Schilder. if its a real street you can check the official strassenverzeichnis on berlin.de, that list is what the Burgeramt actually goes by. which street is it? some of the Kaiserdamm / Kantstrasse signs are notorious for this.

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