{"id":478,"date":"2026-09-01T13:00:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T13:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portraitsbyanselm.com\/podcasts\/prof-dr-josef-baeuml\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T11:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T11:12:14","slug":"prof-dr-josef-baeuml","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/portraitsbyanselm.com\/en\/portrait\/prof-dr-josef-baeuml\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Dr. Josef B\u00e4uml"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What goes on inside a person when their reality shatters? When voices speak that others don’t hear, when persecutors appear that don’t exist, when one’s own brain becomes a threat?<\/p>\n

Prof. Dr. Josef B\u00e4uml dedicated his life to exploring precisely these questions. As a Senior Physician and Privatdozent at the Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Klinikum rechts der Isar of the Technical University of Munich, he was one of Germany’s most renowned psychiatrists for decades. He treated people in their darkest moments\u2014individuals with schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorders, severe psychoses. He was there when no one else knew what to do.<\/p>\n

However, Prof. B\u00e4uml was never just a doctor. He was also a researcher, author, and advisor\u2014not least for the relatives of his patients, for whom he wrote a highly acclaimed book. He wanted people to understand what psychiatry truly means: not locking away, but bringing back. Not control, but dignity.<\/p>\n

Today, Prof. B\u00e4uml is retired. He is ready to speak\u2014about his profession, his faith, about dying and what comes after, about coercion and humanity.<\/p>\n

In this portrait, Anselm meets a man who spent his life listening to others. Now, Prof. B\u00e4uml is the one being asked questions\u2014personal, direct, and sometimes uncomfortable questions.<\/p>\n

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