Managing senior physician at the Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, University Hospital Heidelberg

Senior Physician at the Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, University Hospital Heidelberg

Resident physician at the Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, University Hospital Heidelberg

Postdoc Adelphi University, New York, USA

Heidelberg, medical school

Göttingen, dissertation in psychology (Dr. rer. nat., equivalent to D.Sc.)

Göttingen, pre-medical school

Göttingen, Study of Psychology (Diploma)

Santa Cruz, California, USA: Study of Psychology (exchange year, non-degree)

Scientific Paper Award of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA)

Adolf-Ernst-Meyer Prize for Therapy Research of the German College of Psychosomatic Medicine (DKPM)

Hamburg Fellowship for Personality Disorders

Outstanding Early Career Achievement Award of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR)

Award "Psychotherapy in Medicine" of the Gerhardt Nissen Foundation

Dissertation award (book prize) of the faculties of mathematics and natural sciences for the dissertation "The therapist in inpatient psychotherapy"

Society for Psychotherapy Research

German College of Psychosomatic Medicine (DKPM)

German Society for Psychosomatic Medicine (DGPM)

Taskforce Operationalized Psychodynamic Diagnostics (OPD)

Taskforce on Inpatient Group Psychotherapy Research

Taskforce Group Psychotherapy and Group Analysis

Huber, J., Jennissen, S., Nikendei, Schauenburg, H., & Dinger, U. Agency and Alliance as Change Factors in Psychotherapy. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, accepted for publication.

Dinger, U., Fuchs, M., Köhling, J., Schauenburg, H., & Ehrenthal, J. C. (Feb 20, 2019). Change of emotional experience in Major Depression and Borderline Personality Disorder during psychotherapy: associations with depression severity and personality functioning. Journal for Personality Disorders, Advance Online Publication.

Jennissen, S., Huber, J., Ehrenthal, J.C., Schauenburg, H., & Dinger, U. (2018). The association between insight and outcome of psychotherapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis. American Journal of Psychiatry,175(10), 961-969.

Dinger, U., Ehrenthal, J. C., Nikendei, C., Schauenburg, H. (2017). Change in self-esteem predicts depressive symptoms at follow-up after intensive multimodal psychotherapy for Major Depression. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 24(5), 1040-1046.

Köhling, J., Moessner, M., Bauer, S., Ehrenthal, J. C., Schauenburg, H. Cierpka, M., Kämmerer, A., & Dinger, U. (2016). Affective Instability and Reactivity in Depressed Patients with and without Borderline Pathology. Journal of Personality Disorders, 30(6), 762-775. .(IF 2017: 2,53)

Dinger, U., Klipsch, O., Köhling, J., Ehrenthal, J.C., Nikendei, C., Herzog, W., & Schauenburg, H. (2014). Day Clinic and Inpatient Psychotherapy for Depression – A randomized controlled pilot study in routine clinical care. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 83, 194-195.

Dinger, U., Zilcha-Mano, .S, McCarthy, K.S., Barrett, M.S., & Barber, J.P. (2013) Interpersonal Problems as Predictors of Alliance, Symptomatic Improvement and Premature Termination in Treatment of  Depression. Journal of Affective Disorders, 151, 800-803.

Dinger, U., & Schauenburg, H. (2010). Effects of Individual Cohesion and Patient Interpersonal Style on Outcome in Psychodynamically oriented Inpatient Group Psychotherapy. Psychotherapy Research, 20, 22-29.

Dinger, U., Strack, M., Leichsenring, F., Wilmers, F., & Schauenburg, H. (2008). Therapist Effects on Outcome and Alliance in Inpatient Psychotherapy. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 64, 344-354.