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Professional career

Annette Zwickel studied psychology, clinical neuropsychology, work and organizational psychology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich and the Leopold-Franzens-Universität in Innsbruck. Research Fellow at IGPP since 2019.

Basic training in systemic counseling, currently training in analytical psychotherapy at the C.G. Jung Institute in Stuttgart.

Fields of work / research interests

Areas of work: Information, counseling and psychotherapy for people with extraordinary experiences (ExE)

Current research interests: Differential diagnostic issues in connection with ExE.

Publications

Conference contributions

Zwickel, A. (2023, October 7) Are extraordinary experiences to be understood as psychosis-like experiences? [Lecture]. 36th Workshop of the Scientific Society for the Advancement of Parapsychology, Offenburg.

Zwickel, A. (2023, August 4) Are phenomena that constitute exceptional experiences (ExE) subclinical symptoms of a psychosis continuum? [Lecture]. 65th Annual Convention of the Parapsychological Association, Oslo, Norway.

Zwickel, A. (2023, May 20) The counseling approach of IGPP and its application in clinical practice. [Lecture]. PA Symposium for Counseling and the Exceptional Experiencer, online.

Zwickel, A. (2022, May 14) The counseling approach of IGPP and its application in clinical practice. Case study of a client reporting exceptional experiences (ExE) [presentation]. 6th Expert meeting on clinical approaches to exceptional experiences. British Psychological Society, London, Great Britain.

Zwickel, A. (2019, October) Extraordinary experience and experience of meaning. Exploration of psychodynamic correlates [lecture]. 35th Workshop of the Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Parapsychologie e.V., Offenburg.

Miscellaneous

Zwickel, A. (2019). Exceptional experience and a sense of purpose. Exploration of psychodynamic correlates (Master’s thesis, University of Innsbruck).

Teaching

Zwickel A. (2020 ff., December) Counseling for people with extraordinary experiences at IGPP. Guest article, Seminar Emotion and Learning Psychological Foundations of Clinical-Psychological Disorders, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, online.

Memberships

  • German Society for Analytical Psychology e. V.
  • German Psychotherapists’ Association e. V.
  • Society for Anomalistics e. V.
  • Parapsychological Association
  • Scientific Society for the Advancement of Parapsychology e. V.