Prof. Dr. Katja Bertsch
Julius-Maximilians-Universität
Department of Psychology I
Marcusstr. 9-11
97070 Würzburg
Room: 106
Phone: +49 931 31-82842
E-Mail: l-psy1@psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de
ORCID: 0000-0001-9177-9010
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=de&user=Xqe9-jgAAAAJ
| since 10/2023 | Professor for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy (ordinaria), JMU Würzburg |
2019-2023 | Professor for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy (W2), LMU Munich |
2019 | License in Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy (CBT) |
2013-2019 | Clinical training in Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy (CBT), ZPP Heidelberg |
2010-2019 | Head of Workgroup „Personality Disorders“, University Hospital Heidelberg |
2016 | Venia Legendi in Psychology, Heidelberg University |
2010 | PhD in Psychobiology, Trier University |
2007-2009 | PhD stippend and rearcher, Psychophysiology Lab, Trier University |
2002-2005 | Psychology (Diploma), Trier University |
- Emotions and social Interactions: Anger and aggression, social anxiety, neurobiological correlates of emotions
- Psychoneuroendocrinology: Influences of stress, sex and attachment hormones on social cognition and interaction
- Interoception and body perception
- Personality disorders and their precursers: Borderline, antisocial and anxious-avoidance personality disorders, dimensional impairments in functioning
- Effects of (early) trauma
- Methods: experimental psychopathology, functional and structural imaging, psychophysiology, eyetracking, endocrinology
Bertsch, K., Buades-Rotger, M., Krauch, M., Ueltzhöffer, K., Kleindienst, N., Herpertz, S. C., & Krämer, U. M. (2022). Abnormal processing of interpersonal cues during an aggressive encounter in women with borderline personality disorder: neural and behavioral findings. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, 131, 493–506.
Bertsch, K., Gamer, M., Schmidt, B., Schmidinger, I., Walther, S., Kaestel, T., Schnell, K., Büchel, C., & Herpertz, S. C. (2013). Oxytocin reduces social threat hypersensitivity in females with borderline personality disorder. American Journal of Psychiatry, 170, 1169–1177.
Flechsenhar, A., Kanske, P., Krach, S., Korn, C., & Bertsch, K. (2022). The (un)learning of social functions and its significance for mental health. Clinical Psychology Reviews, doi: 10.1016/j.cpr.2022.102204.
Herpertz, S. C. & Bertsch, K. (2015). A new perspective on the pathophysiology of borderline personality disorder: a model of the role of oxytocin. American Journal of Psychiatry, 172, 840–851.
Müller, L. E., Schulz, A., Andermann, M., Gäbel, A., Gescher, D. M., Spohn, A., Herpertz, S. C., & Bertsch, K. (2015). Cortical representation of afferent bodily signals in borderline personality disorder: Neural correlates and relationship to emotional dysregulation. JAMA Psychiatry, 72, 1077–1086.
