Hans-Ulrich Wittchen

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Hans-Ulrich Wittchen (born July 6, 1951 in Bad Salzuflen ) is a German clinical psychologist , psychotherapist and epidemiologist . From 2000 to March 2017 he was director of the Institute for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy and the Center of Clinical Epidemiology and Longitudinal Studies (CELOS) at the Technical University of Dresden . Since 2018 he has headed the "Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy Research" working group at the Psychiatric University Clinic of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich.

Life and education

After graduating from the Freiherr-von-Stein -Gymnasium in Leverkusen (1968), Hans-Ulrich Wittchen studied medicine and psychology in Vienna. After graduating, he began his career as a scientific assistant to the chair for psychiatry at the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna (1973-1976) and completed additional training as a behavior therapist (psychotherapy) at the Professional Association of German Behavioral Therapists and the Austrian Society for the Promotion of Behavioral Therapy. In Vienna Wittchen u. a. entrusted with the introduction of behavioral method development at the Anton Proksch Institute for Alcoholics and the Ludwig-Boltzmann Institute for Addiction Research and received his doctorate in 1975. phil. with a thesis on the clinical significance of biofeedback methods .

After completing his doctorate, he moved to the Central Institute for Mental Health in Mannheim in 1976 and then to the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich in 1978 . In 1984 he qualified as a professor in clinical psychology at the Ludwig Maximilians University with a paper on the course and outcome of treated and untreated mental disorders. From 1984 to 1990 he also held the professorship for clinical psychology and psychotherapy at the University of Mannheim, where he founded the institute's outpatient department and the psychophysiological laboratory. 1989–1990 he was given leave of absence to assist the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Alcohol, Drug and Mental Health Administration of the United States in the preparation of DSM-III-R and the ICD-10 classifications and to organize accompanying studies. In 1990 he returned to the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry as head of the Psychology Department. From 2004 Wittchen headed the working group “Epidemiology and Progression Research” at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry.

Other professional positions were at the National Institute of Mental Health (Bethesda, USA), Ann Arbor (Michigan, USA) and Harvard University in Boston (USA).

From 2000 to 2017 Wittchen held the chair for clinical psychology and psychotherapy at the Technical University of Dresden. He was director of the Institute for Clinical Psychology and the Center of Clinical Epidemiology and Longitudinal Studies (CELOS), director and managing director of the postgraduate course in psychological psychotherapy as well as the institute outpatient clinic and day clinic for psychology at the Technical University of Dresden (IAP-TU Dresden GmbH).

Act

Wittchen is "highly cited" according to Web od'f Science and was listed by Thomson Reuters in 2015 under "The World's Most Influential Scientific Minds" and is one of the most highly cited scientists in psychology, psychiatry and neurosciences. He conducts basic etiological research on anxiety disorders and depression , stress and substance-related disorders as well as the related physical illnesses and combines the fields of clinical psychology , psychiatry , psychotherapy and epidemiology in his interdisciplinary research .

With his research work, in particular his studies on anxiety disorders ( panic attacks , panic disorder , agoraphobia , generalized anxiety disorder ) and depression, as well as his symptom progression model in connection with comorbidity research, Wittchen developed improved therapeutic diagnostic concepts. He also researches the frequency, stress effects, course, care, therapy and prevention of mental disorders in Germany and worldwide. His studies "Size and burden of mental disorders in Europe" 2005 and 2011 are among the most highly cited recent scientific papers.

Since 1987 he has been the author and co-author of the German version of the US “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders” (3rd – 5th revision). With regard to the diagnosis of mental disorders ( DSM-IV , ICD ), Wittchen was involved in the development of diagnostic instruments such as the Structured Clinical Interview for Mental Disorders (SKID) or the Computerized International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI).

As part of a field study commissioned by the G-BA , a research team led by Wittchen examined the state of care for mentally ill people in Germany. The study results should serve as a basis for the development of a guideline on minimum personnel standards. There are allegations of manipulation against Wittchen in connection with this study, which an investigation commission from the TU Dresden is investigating.

Memberships

Hans-Ulrich Wittchen is the spokesman for several research associations (e.g. BMBF , ASAT, Panicnet). He was u. a. Task Force Member of the APA-DSM-5 Commission for Anxiety Disorders and Executive Council Member of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) and Task Force member of the European Brain Council (EBC) "Size, burden and cost of disorders of the brain in Europe".

He is a project leader and co-investigator of clinical-therapeutic and epidemiological studies (including MFS, EDSP, WMH, NCS, IDEA, DETECT, GEPAD, MentDis65 +, ROAMER and Protect-AD). He was also a member of the Senate of the TU Dresden (2012–2017), honorary professor for psychology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and honorary professor for epidemiology and public health at Miami University, Miller School of Medicine .

Fonts

With over 892 (2018) peer-reviewed publications, Wittchen is one of the most cited scientists in his field worldwide (h-index: 117, 64,159 citations, Google Scholar: h-index 182). His publications include German and English-language books as editor and author on epidemiology and treatment of mental disorders. Together with Jürgen Hoyer , he is the editor and author of the textbook Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, which is widespread in the German-speaking world, as well as other specialist books, especially in the field of behavioral therapy and psychotherapy, e.g. B. Exposure Therapy for Mental Disorders (together with Peter Neudeck ) Handbook of Mental Disorders and Exposure-Based Therapy of Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia .

In the field of patient-oriented psychoeducational literature, he and other authors wrote patient guides such as B. Counselor Anxiety. Everything you always wanted to know about fear .

Hans-Ulrich Wittchen is the founder and co-editor of a number of specialist journals a. a .: Behavioral Therapy and International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research .

Awards

  • 2003: Medvantis Research Prize, Berlin (65,000 €)
  • 2004: ISI / WOS Top 100 Highly-cited in Psychology / Psychiatry / Neuroscience
  • 2010: Vice President of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP)
  • 2012: Austrian Society for Neuropsychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry: Wagner-Jauregg Medal for his life's work.

literature

  • Marc Scheloske: Under suspicion. It is the most important study in years for work in psychiatric clinics. But data may have been manipulated . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, April 18, 2019, p. 10

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy
  2. ↑ Center of Clinical Epidemiology and Longitudinal Studies (CELOS)
  3. ↑ Professional Association of German Behavioral Therapists  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.dgvt.de  
  4. ↑ Austrian Society for the Promotion of Behavioral Therapy
  5. ↑ Course and outcome of treated and untreated affective disorders under psychopathological, social and psychological aspects. Faculty of Psychology and Education at the Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich 1984.
  6. ↑ DSM-III-R. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. American Psychiatric Association, Washington, DC 1987.
  7. ^ Tenth Revision of the International Classification of Diseases Chapter V (F): Mental and Behavioral Disorders (including disorders of psychological development). Clinical descriptions and diagnostic guidelines. World Health Organization, Geneva 1991.
  8. ↑ Status report of the Institute for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the Technical University of Dresden 2016/2017
  9. ↑ [1]
  10. ↑ [2]
  11. ↑ H.-U. Wittchen, M. Zaudig, T. Fydrich: SKID. Structured clinical interview for DSM-IV. Axis I and II. Manual. Hogrefe, Göttingen 1997.
  12. ^ HU Wittchen, H. Pfister: DIA-X interviews: manual for screening procedures and interviews; Interview booklet longitudinal investigation (DIA-X-Lifetime); Supplementary booklet (DIA-X-Lifetime); Interview booklet cross-sectional investigation (DIA-X-12 months); Supplementary booklet (DIA-X-12 months); PC program for carrying out the interview (longitudinal and cross-sectional examination); Evaluation program. Swets & Zeitlinger, Frankfurt 1997.
  13. ↑ GWT-TUD GmbH: Home. Retrieved February 21, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Marc Scheloske: Patient care: suspected manipulation in Germany-wide psychiatry study. In: Spektrum.de. Retrieved March 2, 2019 .
  15. ↑ paniknetz.de Panicnet
  16. ↑ APA-DSM-5
  17. ↑ (ECNP) Size, burden and cost of disorders of the brain in Europe ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ecnp.eu
  18. ↑ europeanbraincouncil.org ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Size, burden and cost of disorders of the brain in Europe  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.europeanbraincouncil.org
  19. ↑ EDSP study ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.psychologie.tu-dresden.de
  20. ^ WHO Mental Health Atlas 2011
  21. ↑ National Comorbidity Survey (NCS)
  22. ↑ DETECT study
  23. ↑ MentDis65 + study
  24. ↑ roamer-mh.org ROAMER
  25. ↑ Clarivate Web of Science 2019 Metrics
  26. ↑ H.-U. Wittchen, J. Hoyer (Ed.): Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy. 2nd Edition. Springer, Heidelberg 2006.
  27. ↑ P. Neudeck, H.-U. Wittchen: confrontation therapy for mental disorders. Hogrefe, Göttingen 2007.
  28. ↑ H.-U. Wittchen (Ed.): Handbook of psychological disorders. Beltz, Weinheim 1998.
  29. ↑ T. Lang, S. Helbig-Lang, D. Westphal, A. Gloster, H.-U. Wittchen: Exposure-based therapy of panic disorder with agoraphobia: a treatment manual. Hogrefe, Göttingen u. a. 2011.
  30. ↑ Behavioral Therapy
  31. ↑ International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research
personal data
SURNAME Wittchen, Hans-Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clinical psychologist and psychotherapist
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Salzuflen