Birgit Wagner (psychologist)
Birgit Wagner (* 1967 in Stuttgart ) is a German psychologist , non-fiction author and professor .
Live and act
Birgit Wagner studied psychology at the Free University of Berlin . In 2006 she did her doctorate at the University of Zurich in the department of psychopathology. The topic of her dissertation was Internet-based intervention for complicated grief . In 2008 she worked as a visiting scholar at the National University of Rwanda . Birgit Wagner completed her habilitation at the Leipzig University Hospital . There she led several projects on the subjects of obesity , trauma and suicidality funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) at the Integrated Research and Treatment Center (IFB) Obesity Diseases . Since 2007 she has been leading an internet- based therapy project called Ilajnafsy in cooperation with the Treatment Center for Torture Victims in Berlin , which is designed for Arab patients in conflict regions .
Birgit Wagner's research and therapy focus are trauma-related disorders such as persistent grief disorder . In this context, she bases her work (also) on internet-based psychotherapy , for example for depression , binge eating disorder , post-traumatic stress disorder and complicated grief.
Birgit Wagner trained as a psychological psychotherapist. In this context, she worked as a psychotherapist at the Psychotherapeutic Center of the Psychological Institute in Zurich from 2006 to 2009. She is a certified psycho-oncologist .
Birgit Wagner has held the professorship for clinical psychology and psychotherapy - behavioral psychology at the Medical School Berlin since 2014.
Prizes and awards
- 2007 Research Prize of the German-speaking Society for Psychotraumatology (DeGPT)
Fonts (selection)
- Psychotherapy with Mourners: Basics and Therapeutic Practice. Beltz , Weinheim 2019, ISBN 978-3-621-28684-8 .
- with Christine Knaevelsrud and Maria Böttche : online therapy and counseling . A practical guide to the online treatment of mental disorders. Hogrefe , Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8017-2562-4 .
- Complicated grief. Basics, diagnostics and therapy . Springer , Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-37358-9 .
- Internet-based Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Complicated Grief: A New Approach of Bereavement Interventions. VDM Verlag Dr. Müller , Saarbrücken 2008, ISBN 978-3-639-01981-0 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Birgit Wagner in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Therapeutic Practice
- ↑ Prof. Dr. habil. Birgit Wagner. In: medicalschool-berlin.de. Retrieved February 21, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wagner, Birgit |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German psychologist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |