Priv. Doz. Dr. med. habil. Dieter Schoepf

Specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy, in private practice https://pmp-schoepf.de/
Habilitation in psychiatry and psychotherapy at the University of Bonn

Current position

Leader CBASP Competence centre (scientific workgroup and supervision of clinical offer)
External Lecturer of the faculty of Bonn, clinic for psychiatry and psychotherapy

Former positions and academic grades

Vitos Weil-Lahn Kliniken for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Neurology and Psychosomatics

01/2019 – 03/2021 Deputy Medical Director
09/2018 – 03/2021 Clinical Director of the Clinics for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy with locations in Hadamar, Limburg, Weilmünster and Weilburg

Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University clinic of Bonn (Prof. Dr. W. Maier)

2008-2018: Managing senior physician
2006-2018: Leader of competence centre CBASP
2016: Habilitation in psychiatry and psychotherapy at University clinic of Bonn
2003-2008: Senior physician
2002-2003: Senior consultant
2002: Medical specialist for psychiatry and psychotherapy
1998-2002: Scientific assistant

Clinic for psychotherapy and behavioural medicine, University clinic of Marburg (Prof. Dr. M. Pohlen)

1996-1997: Scientific assistant, participation in "Marburger Psychotherapieprogramm"

Clinic for psychiatry and psychotherapy, University clinic of Lübeck (Prof. Dr. H. Dilling)

1994-1996: Internship doctor and scientific assistant

Study and doctorate

1996: Doctorate in medicine, University of Hamburg, „magna cum laude“
1987-1994: Study of human medicine, University of Hamburg

Clinical focus

Affective and schizoaffective disorders over the entire life panorama
Disorder-specific and modular psychotherapy
Convulsive and non-convulsive brain stimulation procedure

Certificates

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychotraumatologie (Special psychotrauma psychotherapy)
Psychodynamic imaginative trauma therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy (USA, Europa, Therapeut, Trainer und Supervisor)
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprozessing (EMDRIA)
Operationalisierte psychodynamische Diagnostik-II
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Hirnstimulation in der Psychiatrie e.v. - NIBS (Non-invasive non-convulsive brain stimulation procedures)

Scientific focus

Chronic depression, differential treatment approaches for affective disorders, somatic comorbidity in mental disorders and hospital mortality

Main publications

Serbanescu I, Backenstrass M, Drost S, … Schoepf D (2020) Impact of baseline characteristics on the effectiveness of disorder-specific Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy (CBASP) and Supportive Psychotherapy in outpatient treatment for persistent depressive disorder. Front. Psychiatry | doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.607300
Serbanescu I, Walter H, Schnell K, … Schoepf D (2020) Combining baseline characteristics to disentangle response differences to disorder-specific versus supportive psychotherapy in patients with persistent depressive disorder. Behaviour Research and Therapy 124: 103512
Schramm E, Kriston L, Zobel I … Schoepf D, et al. (2017). Effect of disorder-specific versus non-specific psychotherapy for chronic depression: A randomized controlled trial. JAMA Psychiatry 74 (3): 233 – 242
Schoepf D, Heun R (2015) Comorbid medical illness in bipolar disorder. British Journal of Psychiatry 206: 522-523.
Schoepf D, Uppal H, Potluri R, Heun R (2014) Physical comorbidity and its relevance on mortality in schizophrenia: A naturalistic 12-year follow-up in general hospital admissions. EAPCN 264 (1): 3-28