Michael Linden

Michael Linden ( born July 30, 1948 in simmering / Hunsrück region of Rhineland -Palatinate ) is a German specialist in neurology, psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy and psychotherapist.

Life

Michael Linden is born in 1948 in the Rhineland- Palatinate Simmern / Hunsrück, the son of the physician Franz Linden. In 1967, he presented at the National High School at the Electoral Palace in Mainz from his high school. He studied at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and at the Free University of Berlin, both human medicine and psychology. He received his doctorate on the subject Autogenic training: a learning theory representation on the basis of experiments on the behavior of the circulation and respiration. Later he acquired the specialist in neurology and psychiatry, as well as the medical specialist in psychosomatic and psychotherapeutic medicine. He also received the license to practice as psychotherapist. His habilitation in 1986 in psychiatry at the Free University teaching with a dissertation phase IV research into nerve surgeries. Studies on antidepressant therapy. On March 7, 1994, he was appointed professor of psychiatry at the Free University of Berlin.

In 1982, he was senior physician at the Psychiatric Clinic of the Free University of Berlin and was from 1997 to 1998 chief medical officer of the hospital. Since 1998 he is Head of behavior therapy and Psychosomatics and has worked as a doctor at the rehabilitation center Seehof to the Federal Labour Office Clinic Seehof in Teltow, near Berlin. Currently he is Head of the Research Group Psychosomatic Rehabilitation at the Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin.

Michael Linden is the first to describe the post-traumatic Verbitterungsstörung.Nach the currently valid diagnosis code, ICD 10, but it is not a recognized diagnosis. As psychotherapy of bitterness, he developed the wisdom therapy ..

He is since 1981 married to Evelyn Linden and father of two sons and a daughter. He is Roman Catholic and, since 2009 the Board of Trustees of the Mater Dolorosa Berlin- Lankwitz Foundation.

Memberships

Michael Linden is a member, founding president and longtime chairman of the German Association for Behavior Therapy. He is an advisory member of the Drug Commission of the German Medical Association and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board psychotherapy of the federal government.

He is the spokesman of the Department of the German Society for Psychotherapy Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Neurology and medical Chairman of the Board of Education institutes of the German Association for Behavior Therapy.

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • Risks and side effects of psychotherapy, Linden / Strauss (Editor ), Berlin: Medical Scientific Publishing Company, 2012, ISBN 978-3-94146-864-1
  • Embitterment: Societal, psychological, and clinical perspectives, Linden / Maercker (Editor ), Vienna: Springer, 2010, ISBN 978-3-21199-740-6
  • Salutotherapie in prevention and rehabilitation, Linden / Weig (Editor), German physicians - Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-7691-0555-1
  • Wisdom skills and wisdom Therapy: coping with life stress and adjustment disorders, with Kai Baumann, publishing Lengerich, 2008, ISBN 978-3-89967-490-3
  • Behavior Therapy Manual, Linden / Hautzinger (Editor), Springer- Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-75739-9
  • Rehabilitation psychopharmacotherapy: drug treatment chronifizierender and become chronic mental syndromes, Linden / Muller (Editor), German physicians -Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-7691-0473-0
  • Pharmacotherapy, Linden (Guest Editor), Karger -Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-8055-7283-2
  • Phase IV research: Antidepressants in neurologist practice, Springer- Verlag, 1987, ISBN 3-540-18216-0
  • The Posttraumatic embitterment disorder, Linden, M., Rotter, M., Baumann, K., Lieberei, B. ( Editor), Hogrefe & Huber Publishers, 2007. ISBN 978-0-88937-344-0
  • Editor of the journal Behavior Therapy and co-editor of other magazines, such as The neurologist, Münchener Medizinische Wochenschrift, psychopharmacotherapy, Pharmacopsychiatry, The Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, Primary Care, Psychiatry, Rehabilitation, and reviewer for several other journals.
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