Prof. Dr. med. Sabine C. Herpertz

Medical/Professional background
Dean of Studies of the Medical Faculty Heidelberg
Director of the Department of General Psychiatry at Heidelberg University
Director of the Inpatient and Outpatient Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University of Rostock
Deputy Director at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of the RWTH Aachen
Senior physician at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of the RWTH Aachen
Assistant doctor at the Psychiatric Department of the RWTH Aachen
Assistant physician at the Neurological Department of the Bergmannsheil Hospital of the University Hospital Bochum
Assistant doctor at the neurological rehabilitation center "Godeshöhe" in Bonn
Scientific background
Appointment to W3 Professorship for General Psychiatry at the University of Heidelberg
Appointment to C4 professorship for psychiatry and psychotherapy at the University of Rostock
Appointment to the C3 Professorship for Experimental Psychopathology at University Hospital Aachen
Appointment to C3-Professorship for Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy at the University of Erlangen connected with the clinic management
Venia legendi for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the RWTH Aachen
Doctorate at the Medical Faculty of the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University Frankfurt a.M.
Approbation as medical doctor
Study of human medicine at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn
professional qualifications
EEG certificate of the German EEG Society for Neurophysiology
Specialist in Neurology
Specialist in Psychiatry
Specialist in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Specialist in Psychotherapeutic Medicine
Awards and Honours
President, International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders (ISSPD)
President, German Society for Biological Psychiatry (DGBP)
2008 - 2020: Boardmember, German Society for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Neurology (DGPPN)
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