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Carsten Spitzer

Carsten Spitzer

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Psychology

D-Index
68
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15630
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2497
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103

Overview

Carsten Spitzer is affiliated with the University of Rostock in Germany and has a notable body of work primarily within the fields of Psychology and Medicine. Their research spans several subfields including Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Philosophy.

The scientist's main topics of study center on Personality Disorders and Psychopathology, Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Schizophrenia Research and Treatment, Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments, Bipolar Disorder and Treatment, and broader Mental Health and Psychiatry themes.

Spitzer has contributed to several publication venues with emphasis on those related to psychotherapy and psychosomatics. The frequent publication venues include:

  • Die Psychotherapie
  • PPmP - Psychotherapie · Psychosomatik · Medizinische Psychologie
  • PDP - Psychodynamische Psychotherapie
  • Trauma und Gewalt
  • Zeitschrift für psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie

The scientist's recent papers include:

  • Die deutsche Version der Level of Personality Functioning Scale-Brief Form 2.0 (LPFS-BF): Faktorenstruktur, konvergente Validität und Normwerte in der Allgemeinbevölkerung, 2021, published in PPmP - Psychotherapie · Psychosomatik · Medizinische Psychologie
  • A Critical Evaluation of the Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (RFQ), 2021, published in Journal of Personality Assessment
  • Development of a Short and ICD-11 Compatible Measure for DSM-5 Maladaptive Personality Traits Using Ant Colony Optimization Algorithms, 2020, published in Assessment
  • Borderline Personality Disorder, 2023, published in JAMA
  • Borderline personality disorder: a comprehensive review of diagnosis and clinical presentation, etiology, treatment, and current controversies, 2024, published in World Psychiatry

Frequent coauthors working with Spitzer are:

  • Laura Lübke
  • Sergi Papiol
  • Monika Budde
  • Eva C. Schulte
  • Fanny Senner

The scientist has also published a book through Springer Nature, titled Psychotherapeuten und das Altern in 2023.

Best Publications

  • A 4-item measure of depression and anxiety: Validation and standardization of the Patient Health Questionnaire-4 (PHQ-4) in the general population.

    Bernd Löwe;Inka Wahl;Matthias Rose;Carsten Spitzer

  • [The German version of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ): preliminary psychometric properties].

    Katja Wingenfeld;Carsten Spitzer;Christoph Mensebach;Hans Jörgen Grabe

  • Trauma, posttraumatic stress disorder, and physical illness: findings from the general population

    Carsten Spitzer;Sven Barnow;Henry Völzke;Ulrich John

  • Moderation of Adult Depression by a Polymorphism in the FKBP5 Gene and Childhood Physical Abuse in the General Population

    Katja Appel;Christian Schwahn;Christian Schwahn;Jessie Mahler;Andrea Schulz

  • Alexithymia and interpersonal problems.

    Carsten Spitzer;Ute Siebel-Jürges;Sven Barnow;Hans Joergen Grabe

  • Association of posttraumatic stress disorder with low-grade elevation of C-reactive protein: evidence from the general population.

    Carsten Spitzer;Sven Barnow;Henry Völzke;Henri Wallaschofski

  • [The short version of the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI -18): preliminary psychometric properties of the German translation].

    Carsten Spitzer;S Hammer;Bernd Löwe;H J Grabe

  • Alexithymia and Personality in Relation to Dimensions of Psychopathology

    Hans Joergen Grabe;Carsten Spitzer;Harald Juergen Freyberger

  • Interpersonal evaluation bias in borderline personality disorder.

    Sven Barnow;Malte Stopsack;Hans Joergen Grabe;Claudia Meinke

  • Serotonin Transporter Gene (SLC6A4) Promoter Polymorphisms and the Susceptibility to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in the General Population

    Hans Jörgen Grabe;Carsten Spitzer;Christian Schwahn;Agnes Marcinek

  • Alexithymia and outcome in psychotherapy.

    Hans Joergen Grabe;Jörg Frommer;Annegret Ankerhold;Cornelia Ulrich

  • [The reliable, valid and economic assessment of early traumatization: first psychometric characteristics of the German version of the Adverse Childhood Experiences Questionnaire (ACE)].

    Katja Wingenfeld;Ingo Schäfer;Kirsten Terfehr;Heike Grabski

  • The structure and correlates of self-reported DSM-5 maladaptive personality traits: findings from two German-speaking samples.

    Johannes Zimmermann;David Altenstein;Tobias Krieger;Martin Grosse Holtforth

  • The Apolipoprotein E and β-Fibrinogen G/A-455 Gene Polymorphisms Are Associated With Ischemic Stroke Involving Large-Vessel Disease

    Christof Kessler;Carsten Spitzer;Dorothea Stauske;Sabine Mende

  • The Impact of Self-Reported Childhood Trauma on Emotion Regulation in Borderline Personality Disorder and Major Depression

    Silvia Carvalho Fernando;Thomas Beblo;Nicole Schlosser;Kirsten Terfehr

  • [A brief instrument for the assessment of childhood abuse and neglect: the childhood trauma screener (CTS)].

    Hans Jörgen Grabe;Andrea Schulz;Carsten Oliver Schmidt;Katja Appel

  • Individual Characteristics, Familial Experience, and Psychopathology in Children of Mothers With Borderline Personality Disorder

    Sven Barnow;Carsten Spitzer;Hans J. Grabe;Christoph Kessler

  • Polymorphisms of the Human Platelet Antigens HPA-1, HPA-2, HPA-3, and HPA-5 on the Platelet Receptors for Fibrinogen (GPIIb/IIIa), von Willebrand Factor (GPIb/IX), and Collagen (GPIa/IIa) Are Not Correlated With an Increased Risk for Stroke

    Lena E. Carlsson;Andreas Greinacher;Carsten Spitzer;Reinhard Walther

  • Borderline Personality Disorder

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  • The relationship between dimensions of alexithymia and dissociation.

    H J Grabe;S Rainermann;C Spitzer;M Gänsicke

  • Borderline personality disorder and psychosis: a review.

    Sven Barnow;Elisabeth A. Arens;Simkje Sieswerda;Ramona Dinu-Biringer

  • [Questionnaire on dissociative symptoms. German adaptation, reliability and validity of the American Dissociative Experience Scale (DES)].

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  • 148th Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association

    Volker Dittmann;M. Krausz;C. Haasen;R. Mass

Frequent Co-Authors

Harald J. Freyberger
Harald J. Freyberger University of Greifswald
Sven Barnow
Sven Barnow Heidelberg University
Katja Wingenfeld
Katja Wingenfeld Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Christian Otte
Christian Otte Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Hans-Jörgen Grabe
Hans-Jörgen Grabe Greifswald University Hospital
Bernd Löwe
Bernd Löwe Universität Hamburg
Martin Driessen
Martin Driessen Bielefeld University
Johannes Zimmermann
Johannes Zimmermann University of Kassel
Oliver T. Wolf
Oliver T. Wolf Ruhr University Bochum
Thomas G. Schulze
Thomas G. Schulze Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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