ESSPD Board Members
Michaela Swales
President
Professor of Clinical Psychology, North Wales Clinical Psychology Programme, Bangor University
Bangor, UK
Chiara de Panfilis
President-elect
Psychiatrist and Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Parma
Parma, Italy
Ueli Kramer
Past President
Department of Psychiatry, University of Lausanne
Lausanne, Switzerland
Joost Hutsebaut
Board Member and Treasurer
Clinical psychologist, working as a therapist and researcher at De Viersprong National Institute of Personality Disorders
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Rasa Barkauskienė
Board member
Professor for Clinical Psychology and Head of Developmental Psychopathology Research Center at the Institute of Psychology, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Vilnius, Lithuania
Katja Bertsch
Board member
Professor for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the Department of Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Munich, Germany
Mickey T Kongerslev
Board member
Chief psychologist at Mental Health Services West, Region Zealand, Denmark; Professor of personality disorders and psychotherapy, at the Department of Psychology, University of Southern Denmark; and President of the Institute of Personality Theory and Psychopathology (IPTP) in Denmark.
Denmark
Mariana Mendoza Alvarez
Board member and Early Career Researcher representative
Antwerp, Belgium
Christian Schmahl
Board member
Medical Director of the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine at the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim
Mannheim, Germany
Advisory board
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
Stephan Doering
President 2018 – 2020
Clinic for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Medical University Vienna
Vienna, Austria
Babette Renneberg
President 2020 – 2022
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
