ESSPD Board Members
Stephan Doering
Current President
Clinic for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Medical University Vienna
Währinger Gürtel 18-20,
A-1090 Vienna, Austria
Lars Mehlum
Past-president
National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention
Institute of Clinical Medicine
N-0372 Oslo, Norway
Babette Renneberg
President-elect
Director of the Outpatient Psychotherapy Treatment Center at Freie Universität Berlin and director of a training program in child and adolescent cognitive-behavior therapy (ZGFU).
Berlin, Germany
Joost Hutsebaut
Board Member and Treasurer
Clinical psychologist, working as a therapist and researcher at De Viersprong National Institute of Personality Disorders
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Sebastian Simonsen
Board Member and Website Coordinator
Stolpegaard Psychotherapy Centre
Eschrichtsvej 48, 2500 Valby, Denmark
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
Svenja Taubner
Board Member and Newsletter Coordinator
Director of the Institute for Psychosocial Prevention
University-Hospital Heidelberg
Heidelberg, Germany
Paul Moran
Board Member
Health Services & Population Research DepartmentInstitute of Psychiatry, King’s College London
De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, United Kingdom
Joaquim Soler Ribaudi
Board member
Borderline Personality Unit in the psychiatric service of Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona
University-Hospital Heidelberg
Barcelona, Spain
Ueli Kramer
Board Member
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
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
New Board members suggested for election
Chiara de Panfilis
New Board member suggested for election
Psychiatrist and Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Parma
Parma, Italy
Bo Bach
New Board member suggested for election
Clinical psychologist and research associate, Center for Personality Disorder Research (CPDR), Psychiatric Research Unit, Region Zealand, and Slagelse Psychiatric Hospital
Slagelse, Denmark
Christian Schmahl
New Board member suggested for election
Medical Director of the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine at the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim
Mannheim, Germany
Advisory board
Martin Bohus
Consultant to the board
Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health
Square J 5, 68159 Mannheim, Germany
Anthony Bateman
Consultant to the board
Director of Psychotherapy Services, Halliwick Psychotherapy Unit, St Ann’s Hospital
St Ann’s Road, London N15 3TH, United Kingdom
Thomas Rinne
Consultant to the board
Director of the Department of Science and Education of the Netherlands Institute for Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology
Postbus 13369,
3507 LJ Utrecht, Netherlands