ESSPD Board Members
Ueli Kramer
President
Department of Psychiatry, University of Lausanne
Lausanne, Switzerland
Michaela Swales
President-elect
Professor of Clinical Psychology, North Wales Clinical Psychology Programme, Bangor University
Bangor, UK
Babette Renneberg
Past 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
Joost Hutsebaut
Board Member and Treasurer
Clinical psychologist, working as a therapist and researcher at De Viersprong National Institute of Personality Disorders
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Svenja Taubner
Board Member and Newsletter Coordinator
Director of the Institute for Psychosocial Prevention
University-Hospital Heidelberg
Heidelberg, Germany
Chiara de Panfilis
Board member
Psychiatrist and Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Parma
Parma, Italy
Christian Schmahl
Board member
Medical Director of the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine at the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim
Mannheim, Germany
Katja Bertsch
Board member
Professor for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the Department of Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Munich, 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
Stephan Doering
President 2018 – 2020
Clinic for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Medical University Vienna
Vienna, Austria