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Falk Leichsenring

Falk Leichsenring

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
59
Citations
14586
World Ranking
3680
National Ranking
164

Falk Leichsenring publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Falk Leichsenring sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 233 publications — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Falk Leichsenring D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Falk Leichsenring sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 59 D-Index — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Falk Leichsenring is affiliated with the University of Giessen in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with an emphasis on clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, psychiatry and mental health, social psychology, and pharmacology.

The scientist's main research topics include psychotherapy techniques and applications, personality disorders and psychopathology, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, cognitive processes, mental health research topics, treatment of major depression, schizophrenia research and treatment, and child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development.

Notable recent publications by Falk Leichsenring include:

  • The efficacy of psychotherapies and pharmacotherapies for mental disorders in adults: an umbrella review and meta-analytic evaluation of recent meta-analyses, 2022, World Psychiatry
  • Borderline Personality Disorder, 2023, JAMA
  • Borderline personality disorder: a comprehensive review of diagnosis and clinical presentation, etiology, treatment, and current controversies, 2024, World Psychiatry
  • The status of psychodynamic psychotherapy as an empirically supported treatment for common mental disorders - an umbrella review based on updated criteria, 2023, World Psychiatry

Frequent co-authors in Falk Leichsenring's work include Christiane Steinert, Nikolas Heim, Patrick Luyten, Allan Abbass, and Simone Salzer.

Publishing activity is concentrated in several journals, with multiple publications appearing in World Psychiatry, Frontiers in Psychiatry, JAMA, BMJ Open, and The Lancet Psychiatry.

Best Publications

  • Effectiveness of Long-term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: A Meta-analysis

    Falk Leichsenring;Sven Rabung

  • The efficacy of short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy in specific psychiatric disorders: a meta-analysis.

    Falk Leichsenring;Sven Rabung;Eric Leibing

  • The Effectiveness of Psychodynamic Therapy and Cognitive Behavior Therapy in the Treatment of Personality Disorders: A Meta-Analysis

    Falk Leichsenring;Eric Leibing

  • Short‐term psychodynamic psychotherapies for common mental disorders

    Allan A Abbass;Jeffrey T Hancock;Julie Henderson;Steve R Kisely

  • The efficacy of psychotherapies and pharmacotherapies for mental disorders in adults: an umbrella review and meta‐analytic evaluation of recent meta‐analyses

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  • Long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy in complex mental disorders: update of a meta-analysis

    Falk Leichsenring;Sven Rabung

  • Psychodynamic Therapy and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in Social Anxiety Disorder: A Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial

    Falk Leichsenring;Simone Salzer;Manfred E. Beutel;Stephan Herpertz

  • COMPARATIVE EFFECTS OF SHORT-TERM PSYCHODYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY AND COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THERAPY IN DEPRESSION: A META-ANALYTIC APPROACH

    Falk Leichsenring

  • Short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy in generalized anxiety disorder: a randomized, controlled trial.

    Falk Leichsenring;Simone Salzer;Ulrich Jaeger;Horst Kächele

  • Cognitive-behavioral therapy and psychodynamic psychotherapy: techniques, efficacy, and indications.

    Falk Leichsenring;Wolfgang Hiller;Michael Weissberg;Eric Leibing

  • Are psychodynamic and psychoanalytic therapies effective? A review of empirical data

    Falk Leichsenring

  • Psychodynamic Therapy: As Efficacious as Other Empirically Supported Treatments? A Meta-Analysis Testing Equivalence of Outcomes.

    Christiane Steinert;Thomas Munder;Sven Rabung;Jürgen Hoyer

  • Is Alexithymia Associated with Specific Mental Disorders

    Frank Leweke;Falk Leichsenring;Johannes Kruse;Sandra Hermes

  • Randomized controlled versus naturalistic studies: a new research agenda.

    Falk Leichsenring

  • Development and first results of the Borderline Personality Inventory: a self-report instrument for assessing borderline personality organization.

    Falk Leichsenring

  • Social Anxiety Disorder

    Falk Leichsenring;Frank Leweke

  • Cost-of-illness studies and cost-effectiveness analyses in anxiety disorders: A systematic review

    Alexander Konnopka;Falk Leichsenring;Eric Leibing;Hans-Helmut König

  • Psychodynamic psychotherapy: A systematic review of techniques, indications and empirical evidence

    Falk Leichsenring;Eric Leibing

  • Therapist effects on outcome and alliance in inpatient psychotherapy.

    Ulrike Dinger;Micha Strack;Falk Leichsenring;Fabian Wilmers

  • Psychodynamic therapy meets evidence-based medicine: a systematic review using updated criteria

    Falk Leichsenring;Patrick Luyten;Patrick Luyten;Mark J Hilsenroth;Allan Abbass

  • Reduced amygdalar and hippocampal size in adults with generalized social phobia.

    Eva Irle;Mirjana Ruhleder;Claudia Lange;Ulrich Seidler-Brandler

  • The Efficacy of Short-term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy in Specific Psychiatric Disorders

    Falk Leichsenring;Sven Rabung;Eric Leibing

  • Effectiveness of Long-term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy : A Meta-analysis. Commentary

    Falk Leichsenring;Sven Rabung;Richard M. Glass

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric Leibing
Eric Leibing University of Göttingen
Manfred E. Beutel
Manfred E. Beutel Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Patrick Luyten
Patrick Luyten University College London
Jürgen Hoyer
Jürgen Hoyer TU Dresden
Jörg Wiltink
Jörg Wiltink Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Wolfgang Hiller
Wolfgang Hiller Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Henning Schauenburg
Henning Schauenburg Heidelberg University
Stephan Herpertz
Stephan Herpertz Ruhr University Bochum
Ulrich Stangier
Ulrich Stangier Goethe University Frankfurt
Mark J. Hilsenroth
Mark J. Hilsenroth Adelphi University

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