Dr. med. Alexander Kugelstadt, born in 1981, is a specialist in psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on psychosomatics in the media. For several years he worked in internal medicine at the Berlin Charité hospital and has been at Germany's best-known psychosomatic institute, the Institute for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy of the AOK in Berlin, since 2011. In 2014, he published a guide to starting off a career as a doctor. He is a supervisor and lecturer, and has been co-editing the successful PsychCast podcast, which has over a million downloads.