Prof. Dr. med. Sabine Herpertz

Prof Dr Sabine C. Herpertz studied human medicine in Bonn, obtained her doctorate in Frankfurt a.M. and habilitated in psychiatry and psychotherapy at RWTH Aachen University. Between 2002 and 2003, she held a professorship for Experimental Psychopathology at RWTH Aachen University before taking over the Chair of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University of Rostock between 2003 and 2009. Since 2009, she has been Chair of General Psychiatry at Heidelberg University Hospital, Medical Director of the clinic of the same name and spokesperson for the Centre for Psychosocial Medicine. Her research focuses on the investigation of emotions and social functions in patients with personality disorders and trauma-associated disorders using experimental psychopathology and neuroscientific methods, in particular functional imaging. Reactive aggression is another focus of her research in personality disorders. She is Past President of the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders (ISSPD) and has published many book chapters and journal articles on personality disorders. A second focus of her research is the development and evaluation of psychotherapeutic interventions