ESSPD Board Members

Babette Renneberg
President
Director of the Outpatient Psychotherapy Treatment Centre at Freie Universität Berlin and director of a training program in child and adolescent cognitive-behaviour therapy (ZGFU).
Berlin, Germany

Ueli Kramer
President-elect
Privat-Docent, psychotherapy researcher and clinical psychotherapist according to Federal Law, at the Department of Psychiatry (Institute of Psychotherapy and General Psychiatry Service), University of Lausanne
Lausanne, Switzerland

Stephan Doering
Past-President
Clinic for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Medical University Vienna
Vienna, Austria


Joost Hutsebaut
Board Member and Treasurer
Clinical psychologist, working as a therapist and researcher at De Viersprong National Institute of Personality Disorders
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Bo Bach
Board member
Clinical psychologist and research associate, Centre for Personality Disorder Research (CPDR), Psychiatric Research Unit, Region Zealand, and Slagelse Psychiatric Hospital
Slagelse, Denmark

Chiara de Panfilis
Board member
Psychiatrist and Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Parma
Parma, Italy

Ester di Giacomo
Board Member and Young Researcher’s forum chair
Psychiatrist at the ASST Monza (Italy) and researcher in Neuroscience at the University of Milan Bicocca (Italy)
Milan, Italy

Christian Schmahl
Board member
Medical Director of the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine at the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim
Mannheim, Germany

Michaela Swales
Board member
Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Reader in Clinical Psychology on the North Wales Clinical Psychology Programme, Bangor University
Colwyn Bay, United Kingdom

Svenja Taubner
Board Member and Newsletter Coordinator
Director of the Institute for Psychosocial Prevention
University-Hospital Heidelberg
Heidelberg, Germany
Advisory board

Thomas Rinne
Founding President
Director of the Department of Science and Education of the Netherlands Institute for Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology
Utrecht, Netherlands

Anthony Bateman
President 2010-2014
Director of Psychotherapy Services, Halliwick Psychotherapy Unit, St Ann’s Hospital
London, United Kingdom

Martin Bohus
President 2014-2016
Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health
Mannheim, Germany

Lars Mehlum
President 2016-2018
National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention
Institute of Clinical Medicine
Oslo, Norway