What is a fulfilling life? The psychologist Friedemann Schulz von Thun explains when it makes sense to deal with the past – and how to deal with shame, guilt and failure.
Interview by
Vera Schroeder
The conversation with Friedemann Schulz von Thun, veteran of modern communication psychology, bestselling author (“Talking to one another”) and inventor of numerous communication models that are now also taught in schools, takes place via video. The 78-year-old reports from vacation. He wears a kind of turquoise polo Hawaiian shirt, and in the background you can see a brick oven, a chessboard and a shelf full of folders. His new book is about looking back at your own life when it comes to an end.