Markus Fäh as a Person

I was in high school at the beginning of the Seventies of the last century. Our Latin teacher rewarded us, if we were diligent, with the reading of Sigmund Freud’s works. It quickly became clear to me: I wanted to study the processes in the human mind and the influence of social conditions, I wanted to understand how it came about that people lived unhappily and things got bad in the world. I wanted to acquire instruments to change things for the better. That is why I began to study Clinical Psychology and Sociology, and after I graduated, I worked in a psychiatric hospital and started my psychoanalytic training.

I founded a family with my first wife and soon opened my own psychoanalytic practice. Since then, I constantly strive to get getter every day in the understanding of my patients and clients and helping them more effectively.

What is important to me in my daily work with clients, patients, couples, groups and organizations?

On the one hand, I listen attentively, warmly, empathetically, at the same time neutral and paying attention to the unspoken und incomprehensible. On the other hand, I strive to be close to the feelings of my clients/patients, and while doing so, I am also in contact with my own feelings, imaginations and thoughts. This responsiveness helps me to gain understanding clues about the invisible inner dynamics of my clients and patients.

Last but not least, I keep myself up to date with the latest scientific developments in Psychoanalytic and Psychological Science in order to have at my disposal all the necessary instruments helping me to detect a sense in the experience and speech of my clients, to intervene most effectively in their interest, and to foster the flourishing and success of individuals, couples, groups and organizations.

I love my work, and I am deeply passionately about understanding what lies within the human psyche and what happens in interpersonal relationships. Our human inner dynamics are fascinating, exhilarating, and simultaneously disturbing and abysmal, as immeasurable as the vastness of the universe and the depths of the oceans.

The most important stages of my professional career

The most important stages of my professional career
February 26, 1958
Born in Zurich/Switzerland
February 26, 1958
1978 - 1983
Studies in Clinical Psychology and Sociology (University of Zurich)
1978 - 1983
1982 - 1990
Clinical Work as Psychologist and Psychotherapist in in-patient and out-patient Psychiatric Institutions
1982 - 1990
1982 - 2000
Training in Systemic Family Therapy, Hypnotherapy, Conversational Client-Centered Psychotherapy according to Rogers, Freudian Psychoanalysis
1982 - 2000
Since 1986
Psychoanalyst, Couples Therapist, Coach, Supervisor and Organizational Consultant with own Practice in Zurich/Switzerland
Since 1986
Since 2000
Member of the Swiss Psychoanalytical Society and the International Psychoanalytical Association
Since 2000
2003 - 2008
President of European Confederation for Psychoanalytical Psychotherapies (ECPP), now Honorary President
2003 - 2008
Since 2016
Teaching Analyst at Freud Institute Zurich, Training Analyst of the Swiss Psychoanalytical Society, the Psychoanalytical Seminars Zurich and Innsbruck
Since 2016
Since 2005
Lecturer at Sigmund Freud Private Universities in Vienna and Berlin
Since 2005
Since 2006
Teaching Analyst at Psychoanalytic Institutes in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Ekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Minsk, Innsbruck, Teheran
Since 2006
Since 2009
Swiss Consultant for the European Psychoanalytic Film Festival epff
Since 2009
Since 1982
Author of several books and many scientific articles
Since 1982
Since 2019
Editor of the series «Judith Le Soldat Today. Theory and Practice» (in German) – frommann-holzboog Publishers, Stuttgart
Since 2019
Since 2021
Accreditation as Professor for Psychotherapy Science and Psychoanalysis at Sigmund Freud Private Universities in Vienna and Berlin
Since 2021
Since 2022
Member of Faculty at Pulsion – The International Institute of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychosomatics, New York
Since 2022
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Father of two adult children and one stepdaughter. Married to Juliya Lepihova www.juliyalepihova.com
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To love, to work and to enjoy – these are the three most important things in life, the pillars of human health, as Sigmund Freud, the Founder of Psychoanalysis, noted. I love my family (my wife Juliya Lepihova, my two children from my first marriage, my stepdaughter), I cherish my Psychoanalytic work, writing, films, music, I enjoy being with my beloved ones and friends, tennis, good food and drinks, traveling, dolce far niente.

Being alive is everything – everything else is a waste of time (A.L. Kennedy).

Links to my Partners

Links to my Partners