Michael Linden

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Michael Linden

Michael Linden (born July 30, 1948 in Simmern / Hunsrück in Rhineland-Palatinate ) is a German doctor and psychologist. He works as a specialist in neurology , psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine as well as a psychotherapist .

Linden is currently head of the "Research Group Psychosomatic Rehabilitation " at Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin. He is also head of further medical training and supervisor at the Institute for Behavioral Therapy Berlin and is one of the experts for behavioral therapy commissioned by the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians as part of the statutory health insurance application process for guideline psychotherapy.

Life

Michael Linden was born in 1948 in Simmern / Hunsrück in Rhineland-Palatinate as the son of the doctor Franz Linden. In 1967 he passed his Abitur at the State High School at the Electoral Palace in Mainz . From 1967 to 1973 he studied human medicine at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and at the Free University of Berlin, and from 1970 to 1975 also psychology . The focus of his psychological training was non-directive conversation psychotherapy , behavior therapy and cognitive psychotherapy . From 1976 to 1981 he worked as a research assistant at the Psychiatric and Neurological Clinic of the Free University of Berlin, and since 1981 as a university assistant. He did his doctorate on the subject of autogenic training: a learning theory presentation based on experiments on the behavior of the circulatory system and breathing . The habilitation took place in 1986 in psychiatry at the Free University with the habilitation thesis phase IV research in neurosurgery. Studies on therapy with antidepressants . On March 7, 1994 he was appointed professor of psychiatry at the Free University of Berlin.

In 1982 he became senior physician at the Psychiatric Clinic and Polyclinic of the Free University of Berlin and was the clinic's senior physician from 1997 to 1998. From 1998 to 2015 he was head of the behavioral therapy and psychosomatic medicine department and head physician of the Seehof rehabilitation center at the German Pension Insurance Association in Teltow near Berlin .

He has been married to Evelyn Linden since 1981 and has two sons and a daughter. He is Roman Catholic and was a board member of the Mater Dolorosa Berlin-Lankwitz Foundation from 2009 to 2014 .

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Michael Linden wrote papers focusing on depression, psychotherapy and compliance . He was the first to describe the post-traumatic bitterness disorder (according to the current ICD-10 diagnosis code, to be coded as F 43.8). As a psychotherapy for bitterness, he developed what is known as wisdom therapy.

Memberships

  • Honorary member, founding president and long-time chairman of the German Association for Behavioral Therapy (DVT) .
  • Member of the scientific advisory board for psychotherapy since 1998.
  • Member of the German Society for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Neurology (DGPPN).
  • Spokesman for the Psychotherapy Department of the German Society for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Neurology .
  • Member of the Berlin Society for Psychiatry and Neurology (BGPN), DVT, DGPPR, BBS.
  • Member of the board of the Rehabilitation Science Research Association Berlin-Brandenburg-Saxony (BBS).
  • Member of the board of the German Society for Clinical Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Rehabilitation.
  • Editor of the journal Behavior Therapy and co-editor or on the scientific advisory board of other journals, such as Der Nervenarzt, Psychopharmakotherapie, Pharmacopsychiatry , The Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, Primary Care Psychiatry, Rehabilitation , and a reviewer of several other journals.
  • Initiator and member of the SUPReM research association (safety in the event of adverse events in psychotherapy through reaction management)

Research focus (selection)

  • Psychotherapy research (quality and training research, e.g. behavior therapy competence checklist, side effects of psychotherapy; randomized controlled efficacy testing, e.g. neuroleptic interval therapy in schizophrenia, VT in generalized anxiety disorder, VT in back pain, resilience training in occupational therapy; development new therapy methods, e.g. wisdom therapy)
  • Health care research (observational studies, therapy use by psychotherapists, specialists and general practitioners, examinations for the treatment of mental disorders in statutory and inpatient care, Berlin age study, classification of mental disorders in ICD and ICF (International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health))
  • Clinical research (description of special forms of mental disorders such as bitterness reactions, work anxiety, partial performance disorders, personality disorders)

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • Bitterness and Post-Traumatic Bitterness Disorder. (= Progress in psychotherapy. Volume 65). Hogrefe Verlag, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8017-2822-9 .
  • with Martin Hautzinger (Ed.): Behavior Therapy Manual. Springer-Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-540-75739-9 .
  • with Bernhard Strauss (Ed.): Risks and side effects of psychotherapy. Medical Scientific Publishing Company, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-941468-64-1 .
  • as editor: Therapeutisches Milieu. Healing Environment in Medical Rehabilitation and Inpatient Treatment. Medical Scientific Publishing Company, Berlin 2011.
  • with Andreas Maercker (Ed.): Embitterment: Societal, psychological, and clinical perspectives. Springer, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-211-99740-6 .
  • with W. Weig (ed.): Salutotherapy in prevention and rehabilitation. Deutscher Ärzte-Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-7691-0555-1 .
  • with Kai Baumann: wisdom skills and wisdom therapy: coping with life stresses and adjustment disorders. Verlag Lengerich, 2008, ISBN 978-3-89967-490-3 (largely identical to the text of Kai Baumann's dissertation)
  • with WE Müller (ed.): Rehabilitation psychopharmacotherapy: drug treatment of chronic and chronic psychological syndromes. Deutscher Ärzte-Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-7691-0473-0 .
  • Phase IV research: antidepressants in the neurologist's office. Springer-Verlag, 1987, ISBN 3-540-18216-0 .
  • with H. Helmchen (Ed.): Years of treatment with psychotropic drugs. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-11-013454-3 .
  • Medical interviewing. A practical Guide. Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft, Munich 1983.
  • with R. Dejong and N. Hoffmann (Eds.): Behavior modification in depression. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-541-09361-7 .
  • with M. Manns: Psychopharmacology for Psychologists. Müller, Salzburg 1977, ISBN 3-7013-0549-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Research group Psychosomatic Rehabilitation  ( 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 / fpr.charite.de  
  2. ^ Michael Linden: Medical interviewing. 1983, p. 2.
  3. ^ Dissertation in the catalog of the German National Library
  4. ^ Members of the Board of Trustees , accessed on March 18, 2015.
  5. ↑ M. Linden: Posttraumatic Embitterment Disorder. In: Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. 72, 2003, pp. 195-202.
  6. ↑ M. Linden, B. Schippan, K. Baumann, R. Spielberg: The post-traumatic bitterness disorder (PTED). Delimitation of a specific form of adjustment disorders. In: The neurologist. 75, 2004, pp. 51-57.
  7. ^ M Linden, M. Rotter, K. Baumann, B. Lieberei: The Posttraumatic Embitterment Disorder. Hogrefe & Huber, Toronto 2007.
  8. ↑ Baumann / Linden: Wisdom Therapy. Springer publishing house
  9. ↑ Michael Linden: Wisdom Therapy.
  10. ↑ Michael Linden: Illness and Disability - The ICF Model . In: The neurologist . tape 86 , no. 1 , January 1, 2015, p. 29–35 , doi : 10.1007 / s00115-014-4112-9 ( springer.com [accessed January 2, 2018]).
  11. ↑ Kai Baumann: Dissertation 2007
personal data
SURNAME Linden, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neurologist, psychiatrist and psychotherapist
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Simmern / Hunsrück