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Overview

Anna Buchheim is affiliated with the University of Innsbruck in Austria. Their research spans a broad spectrum within psychology and medicine, with a strong focus on clinical and social psychology as well as epidemiology and mental health.

Their work often explores topics related to trauma, personality disorders, and developmental psychology. Key topics covered in their publications include:

  • Traumatic Brain Injury Research
  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
  • Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

Buchheim has contributed to numerous publications, notably in journals focused on neuroscience, personality assessment, and psychiatry. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Brain Sciences
  • PTT - Persönlichkeitsstörungen Theorie und Therapie
  • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • Journal of Clinical Medicine
  • Research Square

The following represents a selection of their recent papers:

  • Attachment-Related Differences in Emotion Regulation in Adults: A Systematic Review on Attachment Representations, 2023, Brain Sciences
  • Unresolved Attachment Mediates the Relationship Between Childhood Trauma and Impaired Personality Functioning in Adolescence, 2020, Journal of Personality Disorders
  • A Bifactor Model of Personality Organization, 2020, Journal of Personality Assessment
  • Non-suicidal self-injury and attachment trauma in adolescent inpatients with psychiatric disorders, 2021, Comprehensive Psychiatry
  • The Stress of Caring-Resilience and HPA-Axis Activity in Hair Samples of Youth Residential Caregivers, 2020, Frontiers in Psychiatry

Buchheim frequently collaborates with other researchers. Regular coauthors include:

  • Marina Zeldovich
  • Katrin Cunitz
  • Inga K. Koerte
  • Matthias Kieslich
  • Knut Brockmann

Their research has a substantial interdisciplinary reach, bridging psychology and medicine while contributing to knowledge in clinical contexts, developmental processes, and brain injury research. The focus on attachment and relationship dynamics often overlaps with studies on personality disorders and trauma.

Best Publications

  • Transference-focused psychotherapy v. treatment by community psychotherapists for borderline personality disorder: Randomised controlled trial.

    Stephan Doering;Susanne Hörz;Michael Rentrop;Melitta Fischer-Kern

  • Oxytocin enhances the experience of attachment security

    Anna Buchheim;Markus Heinrichs;Carol George;Dan Pokorny

  • Changes in Prefrontal-Limbic Function in Major Depression after 15 Months of Long-Term Psychotherapy

    Anna Buchheim;Roberto Viviani;Roberto Viviani;Henrik Kessler;Henrik Kessler;Horst Kächele

  • Neural correlates of attachment trauma in borderline personality disorder: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study.

    Anna Buchheim;Susanne Erk;Carol George;Horst Kächele

  • Measuring Attachment Representation in an fMRI Environment: A Pilot Study

    Anna Buchheim;Susanne Erk;Carol George;Horst Kächele

  • THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERSONALITY ORGANIZATION, REFLECTIVE FUNCTIONING, AND PSYCHIATRIC CLASSIFICATION IN BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER

    Melitta Fischer-Kern;Anna Buchheim;Susanne Hörz;Peter Schuster

  • Oxytocin Modulates Neural Reactivity to Children's Faces as a Function of Social Salience

    Dina Wittfoth-Schardt;Johanna Gründing;Matthias Wittfoth;Heinrich Lanfermann

  • Transference-focused psychotherapy for borderline personality disorder: change in reflective function

    Melitta Fischer-Kern;Stephan Doering;Svenja Taubner;Susanne Hörz

  • European Psychiatric Association Guidance on Psychotherapy in Chronic Depression Across Europe

    A. Jobst;E.-L. Brakemeier;A. Buchheim;F. Caspar

  • Internal structure of the Reflective Functioning Scale.

    Svenja Taubner;Susanne Hörz;Melitta Fischer-Kern;Stephan Doering

  • The Role of Mentalization in the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Chronic Depression

    Svenja Taubner;Henrik Kessler;Anna Buchheim;Horst Kächele

  • The influence of psychodynamically oriented therapists' attachment representations on outcome and alliance in inpatient psychotherapy [corrected].

    Henning Schauenburg;Anna Buchheim;Kathrin Beckh;Tobias Nolte

  • Eating disorders in adolescence: attachment issues from a developmental perspective.

    Manuela Gander;Kathrin Sevecke;Anna Buchheim

  • The influence of prematurity, maternal anxiety, and infants' neurobiological risk on mother-infant interactions.

    Gesine Schmücker;Karl-Heinz Brisch;Brigitte Köhntop;Susanne Betzler

  • Attachment classification, psychophysiology and frontal EEG asymmetry across the lifespan: a review.

    Manuela Gander;Anna Buchheim

  • The Relationship Among Attachment Representation, Emotion-Abstraction Patterns, and Narrative Style: A Computer-Based Text Analysis of the Adult Attachment Interview

    Anna Buchheim;Erhard Mergenthaler

  • Attachment Quality in Very Low-Birthweight Premature Infants in Relation to Maternal Attachment Representations and Neurological Development

    Karl Heinz Brisch;Doris Bechinger;Susanne Betzler;Hilde Heinemann

  • Attachment disorganization in borderline personality disorder and anxiety disorder.

    Anna Buchheim;Carol George

  • Response inhibition in borderline personality disorder: event-related potentials in a Go/Nogo task

    M. Ruchsow;G. Groen;Max Kiefer;A. Buchheim

  • Effects of social exclusion on emotions and oxytocin and cortisol levels in patients with chronic depression

    Andrea Jobst;Lena Sabass;Anja Palagyi;Christine Bauriedl-Schmidt

  • The influence of psychodynamically oriented therapists’ attachment representations on outcome and alliance in inpatient psychotherapy [corrected]. Psychother Res, 20(2), 193-202

    Henning Schauenburg;Anna Buchheim;Kathrin Beckh;Tobias Nolte

Frequent Co-Authors

Carol George
Carol George Mills College
Frank Padberg
Frank Padberg Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Martin Walter
Martin Walter Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Henrik Walter
Henrik Walter Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Babette Renneberg
Babette Renneberg Freie Universität Berlin
Bernhard Strauss
Bernhard Strauss Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Peter Fonagy
Peter Fonagy University College London
Johannes Zimmermann
Johannes Zimmermann University of Kassel
John F. Clarkin
John F. Clarkin Cornell University
Jörg M. Fegert
Jörg M. Fegert University of Ulm

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