Prof. Dr. med. Sabine C. Herpertz
Medical Director
(Department of General Psychiatry)
Attending Physician
(Privatambulanz Allgemeine Psychiatrie)
Research Group Leader
(Working Group Personality Disorders)
Center spokesperson
(Center for Psychosocial Medicine)
Managing Medical Director
(Center for Psychosocial Medicine)
Medical/Professional background
- October 2018 – September 2023
Dean of Studies of the Medical Faculty Heidelberg
- since September 2009
Director of the Department of General Psychiatry at Heidelberg University
- February 2003 – August 2009
Director of the Inpatient and Outpatient Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University of Rostock
- January 2001 – February 2003
Deputy Director at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of the RWTH Aachen
- April 1993 – December 2000
Senior physician at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of the RWTH Aachen
- July 1989 – March 1993
Assistant doctor at the Psychiatric Department of the RWTH Aachen
- October 1987 – June 1989
Assistant physician at the Neurological Department of the Bergmannsheil Hospital of the University Hospital Bochum
- October 1985 – September 1987
Assistant doctor at the neurological rehabilitation center "Godeshöhe" in Bonn
Scientific background
- October 2008
Appointment to W3 Professorship for General Psychiatry at the University of Heidelberg
- September 2002
Appointment to C4 professorship for psychiatry and psychotherapy at the University of Rostock
- September 2001
Appointment to the C3 Professorship for Experimental Psychopathology at University Hospital Aachen
- July 2001
Appointment to C3-Professorship for Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy at the University of Erlangen connected with the clinic management
- May 1997
Venia legendi for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the RWTH Aachen
- 1986
Doctorate at the Medical Faculty of the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University Frankfurt a.M.
- 1985
Approbation as medical doctor
- 1978 – 1985
Study of human medicine at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn
professional qualifications
- 1989
EEG certificate of the German EEG Society for Neurophysiology
- 1990
Specialist in Neurology
- 1992
Specialist in Psychiatry
- 1996
Specialist in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
- 1998
Specialist in Psychotherapeutic Medicine
Awards and Honours
- 2015 – 2017
President, International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders (ISSPD)
- 2015 – 2018
President, German Society for Biological Psychiatry (DGBP)
2008 - 2020: Boardmember, German Society for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Neurology (DGPPN)
- 2014 – 2018
Speaker "Ständige Konferenz Ärztlicher Psychotherapeutischer Verbände"
Scientific research priorities
Emotion research:
- Neurobiological foundations of emotions
- Interaction of emotion and cognition
- Emotion and social cognition
- Emotion and aggression
Personality disorders and their precursors:
- Borderline and Antisocial Personality Disorder
Methodological focus:
- Experimental Psychopathology
- Psychotherapy Research
- Functional neuro imaging
- Psychoendocrinology, Neuropeptides
Scientific advisory board of professional journals
Psychopathology (Editor) -in - Chief
Personality Disorder: Theory, Research, and Treatment
Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry
Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation
Nervenarzt
Behavior Therapy
Textbooks
Herpertz SC, Caspar F, Lieb K (Hrsg.) Psychotherapie - Ein funktions- und störungsorientiertes Vorgehen. Elsevier, München, 2017
Fiedler P, Herpertz SC. (2016) Persönlichkeitsstörungen. 7. Auflage, Beltz-Verlag
Lehmkuhl, Herpertz, Resch (Hrsg.) Psychotherapie des jungen Erwachsenenalters. Kohlhammer Verlag, 2015
Herpertz SH, Schnell K, Falkai P (Hrsg.). Psychotherapie in der Psychiatrie. 2012, Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart
Dulz B, Herpertz SH, Kernberg OF, Sachsse U, Thomashoff HO. Handbuch der Borderline-Störungen. Schattauer-Verlag. 2. Aufl. 2011