Falk Leichsenring

Falk Leichsenring (* 1955 in Anraff ) is a German psychologist , psychotherapy researcher , psychoanalyst and training analyst at the DGPT as well as professor at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen in the department of psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy .

Currently (as of 2007) he is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for Psychotherapy at the German Medical Association / Federal Chamber of Psychotherapists .

His main areas of work are: psychotherapy research, personality disorders, anxiety disorders, psychodiagnostics, projective test procedures, and the theoretical and methodological foundations of empirical research.

In 2005, his research on the effectiveness of short-term psychodynamic therapies was awarded the Heigl Prize . The Heigl Prize, named after its founders Franz Serafin and Annelise Heigl, is awarded annually (for the first time in 2004) for empirical and conceptual work in the field of psychodynamically oriented psychotherapy research and is endowed with 10,000 euros.

research

Leichsenring, together with specialist colleagues, examined the effectiveness of psychodynamic psychotherapies. In his research he was able to scientifically prove that psychoanalytically oriented therapy is effective for people suffering from various mental disorders. He also conducts comparative studies, which enable a comparison of different forms of psychotherapy.

In collaboration with Henri Chabrol, he developed a self- assessment sheet for people with borderline personality disorders as a psychological diagnostic tool .

In the field of psychotherapy research, he rethought different research settings and approaches and recommends a quasi-experimental setting for investigating the effectiveness of psychotherapy , which has a higher relationship to the field under investigation and thus a higher significance. He also recommends avoiding randomization (so-called controlled studies), since waiting and placebo groups have now been adequately investigated.

Publications (selection)

• Falk Leichsenring: Borderline-Stile Huber, Bern 2003 ISBN 978-3456828077
• Falk Leichsenring: The great textbook of psychotherapy. Vol 2. Psychoanalytical and deep psychological psychotherapy Cip-Medien-Verlag 2004 ISBN 978-3932096327
• Falk Leichsenring et al .: The great textbook of psychotherapy. Volume 1: Scientific foundations of psychotherapy Volume 2: Psychoanalytical and depth psychologically founded ... Child and adolescent psychotherapy Cip-Medien-Verlag 2007 ISBN 978-3932096457
• F. Leichsenring, S. Rabung, E. Leibing: The efficacy of short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy in specific psychiatric disorders: A meta-analysis. Archives of General Psychiatry 61, 1208-1216. 2004
• F. Leichsenring, E. Leibing. The effectiveness of psychodynamic psychotherapy and cognitiv-behavioral therapy in personality disorders. A meta-analysis . With American Journal of Psychiatry 20, 34-38 2003

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• Gerald Poscheschnik (Ed.): Empirical research in psychoanalysis. Basics - Applications - Results . Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2005, ISBN 3-89806-477-8 , ( research psychosocial ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Falk Leichsenring in the catalog of the German National Library
• Personal data of F. Leichsenring (PDF file; 216 kB)
• [1] Press release UNI Göttingen (Oct. 2005) Heigl Prize 2005 (PDF file; 31 kB)
• CV at the Scientific Advisory Board for Psychotherapy of F. Leichsenring (PDF file)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ wbpsychotherapie.de