Activities

Supervisor and advisor to psychosocial institutions, with a focus on Eastern Europe and the Middle East.

Director of supplementary education courses in supervision for “Catania - Aid to Traumatized Victims” (with Nora Balke).

Director of a working group on psychotraumatology research at the Center Ueberleben/Center for the Treatment of Torture Victims, Berlin.

Partners:

  • Andreas Heinz, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Dept. of Psychiatry of the Charité Campus Mitte, Humboldt Universität Berlin
  • Dr. Iris Hauth, Chief Physician for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Pyschosomatics, Clinic for Addiction Medicine, St. Joseph Hospital, Berlin-Weissensee, Society of the Alexian Brothers
  • Dr. Meryam Schouler-Ocak, Director of the Outpatient Clinic, head of the Psychiatric Clinic of the Charité at the St. Hedwig Hospital, Berlin, director of the Working Group for Research on Migration and Care
  • Dr. Robert Bering, Center for Psychotraumatology, Alexian Hospital Krefeld.

Ongoing Research Projects

  • Theatrical processing of the trauma of imprisonment and harassment under the East German dictatorship
    funded by Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur
  • Prevention of Domestic Violence in Migrant Families
    funded by Gesellschaft der Alexianerbrüder Berlin
    http://www.catania-online.org/projekte/gewaltpraevention.html

 

Co-director of Working Group on Global Mental Health and Psychotrauma Research, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité Universitätsmedizin Campus Mitte, Berlin
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Member of United Nations Subcomittee on Prevention of Torture

Consultant/Clinical Supervisor of Independent Federal Commission for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Sexual Abuse

Member of the Senior Clinical Advisory Group, International Rehabilitation Center for Torture Victims (IRCT)

University teaching

Scientific Director, Catania - Aid for Traumatized Victims

Member of the editorial council of the magazine “Intervention – International Journal of Mental Health, Psychosocial Work and Counseling in Areas of Armed Conflict” (published by the War Trauma Foundation of the Netherlands)

Member of the scientific advisory board of the “Zeitschrift für Psychotraumatologie,
Psychotherapiewissenschaft, Psychologische Medizin” (German Journal of Psychotraumatology)

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