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From 1992 to 2012, Klaus Bernhardt produced over 1,000 TV reports and 46 documentaries. The focus of his work was on medical and scientific topics, but he also produced many contributions for popular TV formats such as Raus aus den Schulden (RTL) or Galileo (Pro7).
In 2010, Klaus Bernhardt founded
arztwissen.tv
, one of the first purely online-based TV channels on the subject of health. His goal was to make complicated medical issues more understandable for laypeople and to make this knowledge accessible free of charge. During this time, he also began to deal intensively with the topic of brain research.
In doing so, he had to realize again and again that many neuroscientific findings had still not found their way into everyday psychotherapeutic work, even years after their discovery. The more he became familiar with the subject, the more unbearable it became for him to think that many people with mental illnesses could actually be helped much more quickly and sustainably if, for example, the neuroplasticity of the brain were taken more into account in psychotherapeutic procedures.
When two very important people in his life became ill with an anxiety disorder, he no longer wanted to stand idly by. He trained himself as a non-medical practitioner for psychotherapy and subsequently completed several further psychotherapeutic training courses. In 2013, he became a member of the Academy for Neuroscientific Education Management AFNB in order to have permanent access to the latest findings in brain research. Based on the latest neuroscientific discoveries, he then spent 3 years developing a new form of anxiety therapy, now known as the Bernhardt Method.
Klaus Bernhardt described his experiences with this psychotherapeutic method, which has been legally protected since April 23, 2018 under the term Bernhardt 1 at the German Trademark and Patent Office1 , in detail in his first book The Anxiety Cure. The book, which he first published as a self-publisher in 2016, quickly became an insider tip among those affected and achieved bestseller status within a few weeks.
After the Penguin RandomHouse publishing group acquired the book rights in 2017, it was published in an expanded and revised new version by Ariston Verlag, which also marketed the title internationally. The book is currently available in 18 languages. According to Buchreport, it was one of the most successful nonfiction books in the paperback category in Germany, spending 126 weeks on the Spiegel bestseller list in 2018, 2019, and 2020.
Klaus Bernhardt described his experiences with this psychotherapeutic method, which has been legally protected since April 23, 2018 under the term Bernhardt 1 at the German Trademark and Patent Office1, in detail in his first book The Anxiety Cure. The book, which he first published as a self-publisher in 2016, quickly became an insider tip among those affected and achieved bestseller status within a few weeks.
After the Penguin RandomHouse publishing group acquired the book rights in 2017, it was published in an expanded and revised new version by Ariston Verlag, which also marketed the title internationally. The book is currently available in 24 languages. According to Buchreport, it was one of the most successful nonfiction books in the paperback category in Germany, spending 126 weeks on the Spiegel bestseller list in 2018, 2019, and 2020.
In 2017, Klaus Bernhardt founded the Institute for Modern Psychotherapy in Berlin together with his wife, the anxiety and couples therapist Daniela Bernhardt. There, the two work together with physicians, psychological psychotherapists, neuroscientists and alternative practitioners of psychotherapy to transfer the success of the Bernhardt Method to other mental health conditions.
Based on this work, Klaus Bernhardt's second book Depression und Burnout loswerden was published in 2019. This title also made it onto the Spiegel bestseller list (nonfiction/paperback) right away and stayed there for a total of 23 weeks. It is currently available in 11 languages. In September 2022, Klaus Bernhardt's third Spiegel bestseller followed under the title Zwänge und Zwangsgedanken loswerden.
From 2015 to 2020, Klaus Bernhardt has published a total of 4 free podcast episodes. Under the title "Anxiety Cure", he encourages people with anxiety disorders to take more personal responsibility and gives advice on what is important to pay attention to when treating anxiety disorders. In total, the episodes have been accessed over 1.9 million times so far.