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Prof. Dr. med. Sabine C. Herpertz
Medical/Professional background
- October 2018 – September 2023
Dean of Studies of the Medical Faculty Heidelberg
- since September 2009
Director of the Department of General Psychiatry at Heidelberg University
- February 2003 – August 2009
Director of the Inpatient and Outpatient Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University of Rostock
- January 2001 – February 2003
Deputy Director at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of the RWTH Aachen
- April 1993 – December 2000
Senior physician at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of the RWTH Aachen
- July 1989 – March 1993
Assistant doctor at the Psychiatric Department of the RWTH Aachen
- October 1987 – June 1989
Assistant physician at the Neurological Department of the Bergmannsheil Hospital of the University Hospital Bochum
- October 1985 – September 1987
Assistant doctor at the neurological rehabilitation center "Godeshöhe" in Bonn
Scientific background
- October 2008
Appointment to W3 Professorship for General Psychiatry at the University of Heidelberg
- September 2002
Appointment to C4 professorship for psychiatry and psychotherapy at the University of Rostock
- September 2001
Appointment to the C3 Professorship for Experimental Psychopathology at University Hospital Aachen
- July 2001
Appointment to C3-Professorship for Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy at the University of Erlangen connected with the clinic management
- May 1997
Venia legendi for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the RWTH Aachen
- 1986
Doctorate at the Medical Faculty of the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University Frankfurt a.M.
- 1985
Approbation as medical doctor
- 1978 – 1985
Study of human medicine at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn
professional qualifications
- 1989
EEG certificate of the German EEG Society for Neurophysiology
- 1990
Specialist in Neurology
- 1992
Specialist in Psychiatry
- 1996
Specialist in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
- 1998
Specialist in Psychotherapeutic Medicine
Awards and Honours
- 2015 – 2017
President, International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders (ISSPD)
- 2015 – 2018
President, German Society for Biological Psychiatry (DGBP)
2008 - 2020: Boardmember, German Society for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Neurology (DGPPN)
- 2014 – 2018
Speaker "Ständige Konferenz Ärztlicher Psychotherapeutischer Verbände"
Scientific research priorities
Emotion research:
- Neurobiological foundations of emotions
- Interaction of emotion and cognition
- Emotion and social cognition
- Emotion and aggression
Personality disorders and their precursors:
- Borderline and Antisocial Personality Disorder
Methodological focus:
- Experimental Psychopathology
- Psychotherapy Research
- Functional neuro imaging
- Psychoendocrinology, Neuropeptides
Scientific advisory board of professional journals
Psychopathology (Editor) -in - Chief
Personality Disorder: Theory, Research, and Treatment
Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry
Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation
Nervenarzt
Behavior Therapy
Textbooks
Herpertz SC, Caspar F, Lieb K (Hrsg.) Psychotherapie - Ein funktions- und störungsorientiertes Vorgehen. Elsevier, München, 2017
Fiedler P, Herpertz SC. (2016) Persönlichkeitsstörungen. 7. Auflage, Beltz-Verlag
Lehmkuhl, Herpertz, Resch (Hrsg.) Psychotherapie des jungen Erwachsenenalters. Kohlhammer Verlag, 2015
Herpertz SH, Schnell K, Falkai P (Hrsg.). Psychotherapie in der Psychiatrie. 2012, Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart
Dulz B, Herpertz SH, Kernberg OF, Sachsse U, Thomashoff HO. Handbuch der Borderline-Störungen. Schattauer-Verlag. 2. Aufl. 2011