University of Technology Dresden, Germany

Hospital and Polyclinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Carl Gustav Carus
Faculty of Medicine of the University of Technology, Dresden, Germany

The Clinic and Polyclinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy is part of the University Hospital and the Faculty of Medicine of the Dresden University of Technology. The Clinic has the responsibility for psychiatric treatment of one of the population sectors of the City of Dresden. The Research Department focusses on the supply with mental health care services in different settings of which is one the supply with care for people suffering from posttraumatic stress. All studies cover scientific as well as practical aspects of conducting cross-sectional and longitudinal studies. Most of them are multi-centered, such as the day-hospital study EDEN and the study on coercive psychiatric treatment measures EUNOMIA.

Address:

Dr. Matthias Schützwohl
Dresden University of Technology
Clinic and Polyclinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Fetscherstr. 74 Haus 25
D-01307 Dresden
Phone ++ 49 351 458 5490
Fax ++ 49 351 458 5380
 

Matthias Schützwohl, PhD, is a psychologist, Senior Research Fellow and expert in assessing PTSD and systematic research studies on the subject including methodological issues. He conducted a study on the mental sequelae of political imprisonment in the German Democratic Republic as well as a study on posttraumatic stress in crime victims. He has published several papers on PTSD and is co-editor of a book on PTSD. He also published a brochure with information on PTSD, which aimed at delivering better treatment for victims of traumatization, and was disseminated among psychotherapists and general practitioners. In addition, he has extensive experience in mental health services research, especially in the evaluation of specific psychiatric treatment programs, which was his doctorate topic.

Email: Matthias.Schuetzwohl@mailbox.tu-dresden.de

PD Dr. med. habil. Thomas Kallert will work very closely with Dr. Schützwohl. He is a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy and Acting Deputy Head of the Hospital and Polyclinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University Hospital of the University of Technology of Dresden. His main research fields are the manifold aspects of adequate provision of mental health care, including costs and cost-effectiveness of mental health care. Currently he is Project Co-ordinator of the two above-mentioned EC-funded study.

Email: thomas.kallert@mailbox.tu-dresden.de

Anne-Kathrin Will, M.A., is the research associate. She received her degree in European Ethnology and Cultural Studies with a work about the “Functions of rapes in the national discourse in the case of Bosnia-Herzegovina 1992-1995”. She lived and worked one year in central Bosnia in 1996/1997 and from 1999 until 2001 she worked as a counsellor and interpreter for mostly Bosnian refugees who migrated through the U.S. Immigration Programm to the U.S.A.. She is fluent in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, adept in the former Yugoslavia and refugee issues.

Email: anne-kathrin.will@mailbox.tu-dresden.de