Dr. Philipp Herzog

As of 2/1/23, Dr. Philipp Herzog started an appointment as a postdoctoral fellow in the McNally lab (https://www.mcnallylab.com/) in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. Together with Prof. Richard J. McNally and his team, he will study how to better understand and treat mental health problems following trauma (e.g., posttraumatic stress disorder) in the next semester. This research aims to develop mechanistically targeted personalized interventions that are better tailored to the individual patient.

Contact

philipp.herzog[at]rptu.de

Address

3rd floor

Ostbahnstraße 10

76829 Landau

About the person

Education and Training

10/2016 - 09/2022Institut für Psychotherapieausbildung Marburg (IPAM) Postgraduate training in cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) Licensed Psychotherapist (“Approbation zum Psychologischen Psychotherapeuten”) Grade: „Sehr gut” [A]  Director: Prof. Dr. Winfried Rief
10/2019 –Training as a certified DBT1 therapist under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schweiger,
Dr. Valerija Sipos, Dr. Kristin Heinecke, & Dr. Diana Braakmann
03/2017 –Training as a certified CBASP2 therapist under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Eva-Lotta
Brakemeier
10/2016 –Institut für Psychotherapieausbildung Marburg (IPAM)
Postgraduate training in cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)
Director: Prof. Dr. Winfried Rief
12/2016 – 08/2020Philipps-University of Marburg
PhD in the Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy
Thesis: Optimizing the effects of psychotherapy: effectiveness, predictors and side effects
in routine clinical care
Degree: Doctor of Natural Sciences (Dr. rer. nat.), Grade: magna cum laude
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Eva-Lotta Brakemeier, Prof. Dr. Winfried Rief
10/2010 – 11/2016Philipps-University of Marburg
Diploma in Psychology (Grade: "sehr gut" [A])
Fields of specialization: Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Cognitive Neuroscience
Thesis: "Validation of a questionnaire for the assessment of transcultural competencies in
psychotherapists (TKKP)"
Supervisors: Dr. Judith Reichhardt, Dr. Cornelia Weise

 

Academic positions

02/2023 - 09/2023Harvard University Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Psychology (McNally Lab) Head of Lab: Prof. Dr. Richard J. McNally
01/2023University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU)  Postdoctoral Researcher (Faculty Position) at the Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy (Pain and Psychotherapy Research Lab) Head of Department: Prof. Dr. Julia Anna Glombiewski
01/2022 - 12/2022University of Koblenz-Landau
Research Fellow (Post Doc Position) at the Department of Clinical Psychology and
Psychotherapy (Pain and Psychotherapy Research Lab)
Head of Department: Prof. Dr. Julia Anna Glombiewski
10/2019 – 12/2021University of Greifswald
Research Fellow at the Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy
Head of Department: Prof. Dr. Eva-Lotta Brakemeier
11/2020 – 12/2021Zentrum für Integrative Psychiatrie (ZIP gGmbH) at the University Medical Center
Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck
Clinician-Scientist-Model: Psychologist in the Outpatient Clinic and Research Fellow in
the Lab for Psychotherapy Research: Outpatient Programs (PI: Dr. Eva Faßbinder)
01/2015 – 03/2017MoReData GmbH, Gießen
Student Trainee (Focus: Organization of Assessment Centers)
Instructor: Jörg Reitze
07/2016 – 08/2016GIDEON GmbH, Potsdam
Psychological Intern (Focus: Business Psychology, Emergency Psychology)
Internship Supervisor: Dr. Gerd Reimann
04/2015 – 10/2015Philipps-University Marburg
Student Teaching Assistant in the Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy
Head of Department: Prof. Dr. Winfried Rief
05/2014 – 07/2014Asklepios Clinic Göttingen
Clinical Intern (Focus: Cultures, Migration and Mental Disorders)
Internship Supervisor: Dr. Ibrahim Oezkan
09/2011 – 07/2013Philipps-University Marburg
Student Research Assistant in the Department of Clinical Biopsychology
Head of Department: Prof. Dr. Urs M. Nater

 

Clinical Experience

10/2019 – 11/2020Zentrum für Integrative Psychiatrie (ZIP gGmbH) at the University Medical Center
Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck
Psychotherapist in postgraduate training (CBT)
Psychiatric Day-Care Clinic for Psychosomatics with a focus on "Dialectical-behavioral
therapy of borderline personality disorder with comorbid eating disorder"
Head of Day-Clinic: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schweiger
10/2016 – 09/2019Psychotherapie-Ambulanz Marburg (PAM)
Psychotherapist in postgraduate training (CBT)
Treatment of Outpatients

 

Teaching and mentoring experience

Classes (“Seminar”) in Bachelor and Master programs in Psychology at different universities:

  • Philipps-University of Marburg: Obsessive-compulsive disorders (2017, 2018), Affective disorders (2019), Application of clinical-psychological interventions (“Interventionspraktikum I + II“) (2015, 2017, 2018), Modern psychological treatment approaches (e.g., DBT, CBASP) (2018)
  • University of Greifswald: Obsessive-compulsive disorders (2019, 2020, 2021)
  • University of Luxembourg: Basic intervention techniques (2021)
  • University of Koblenz-Landau/ University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU): Obsessive-compulsive disorders (2022), Evaluation of clinical-psychological interventions (2022), Case conceptualization (“Fallseminar”) (2022), Basic clinical-psychological interventions (2022), Classes on selected mental disorders (e.g., borderline personality disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder) (2022)

Lectures on:

  • Personalized Psychotherapy (Master’s program in Psychology at the University of Koblenz-Landau/University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU)) (2022, 2023)

Supervision of:

  • M. Sc. Hannah Willems: Start of PhD in October 2022 at the University of Koblenz-Landau/ University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU) (primary supervisor)
  • More than 15 bachelor and master theses at the Philipps-University of Marburg, University of Greifswald and University of Koblenz-Landau/University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU)

 

Research support

2022Start-up funding of the project “On the role of dysfunctional expectations in daily life of people with posttraumatic stress disorder: An experience sampling method study” in the context of the promotion for young postdoctoral researchers at the University of Koblenz-Landau (approx. 8.150€)
2022Travel grant for participating in the 53rd International Annual Meeting 2022 of the Society
for Psychotherapy Research in the context of the promotion for young postdoctoral
researchers at the University of Koblenz-Landau (1.525€)
2021Start-up funding of the project “On the development and persistence of dysfunctional
expectations in posttraumatic stress disorder: A multi-method series of investigations in
healthy and clinical samples” in the context of the promotion for young postdoctoral
researchers at the University of Greifswald (approx. 10.000€)
2021Start-up funding of the project “Optimizing brief psychological interventions using
Leapfrog” in the context of the call for proposals “Impuls Forschung” (5.000€)

 

Honors and awards

2020Teaching Award of the Department of Psychology at the University of Greifswald: Best
Teaching in the Master's Program in Psychology (3rd Place)
12/2016 – 09/2019Three-year PhD Scholarship awarded by the Philipps-University of Marburg, Germany

 

Ad hoc reviewing experience

Psychological Medicine, Behaviour Research and Therapy, Psychotherapy Research, Journal of Anxiety Disorders, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, European Journal of Psychotraumatology, Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, Clinical Psychology in Europe, BMC Psychiatry, Brain and Behavior, Psychopathology, Verhaltenstherapie, Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie, PPmP - Psychosomatik · Medizinische Psychologie

Membership in scientific associatios

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie/German Psychological Society (DGPs)

Journal articles (peer-reviewed)

2023

Herzog, P.*, & Kaiser, T*., De Jongh, A. (accepted). Wie Mythen der traumafokussierten Psychotherapie eine adäquate Versorgung erschweren: Ein Plädoyer zur Implementierung evidenzbasierter Verfahren in
Deutschland. Psychotherapeutenjournal.

Kaiser, T., & Herzog, P. (in press). Is personalized treatment selection a promising avenue in BPD research? - A meta-analysis estimating treatment effect heterogeneity in RCTs of BPD. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.

Kube, T., Elssner, A. C., & Herzog, P. (2023). The relationship between multiple traumatic events and the severity of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms – evidence for a cognitive link. European Journal of Psychotraumatology14(1), 2165025. https://doi.org/10.1080/20008066.2023.2165025

2022

Herzog, P., & Kaiser, T. (in revision). Is it worth it to personalize the treatment of PTSD? - A variance-ratio meta-analysis and estimation of treatment effect heterogeneity in RCTs of PTSD. Journal of Anxiety 
Disorders, 102611. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2022.102611

Kube, T., Kirsch, I., Glombiewski, J. A., & Herzog, P. (2022). Can placebos reduce intrusive memories?  Behaviour Research and Therapy, 104197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2022.104197

Herzog, P., Kaiser, T., & Brakemeier, E.-L. (in revision). Praxisorientierte Forschung in der Psychotherapie: Entwicklung, Gegenwart und Zukunft. Zeitschrift Für Klinische Psychologie Und Psychotherapie51(2), 127–148.https://doi.org/10.1026/1616-3443/a000665

Herzog, P., Kube, T., & Faßbinder, E. (2022). How childhood maltreatment alters perception and cognition - The predictive processing account of borderline personality disorder. PsychologicalMedicine, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291722002458

Kube, T., & Herzog, P. (2022). Differential associations of positive and negative expectations with depressive symptoms. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.23442

Herzog, P., Kaiser, T., Rief, W., Brakemeier, E.-L.*, & Kube, T.* (in press). Assessing dysfunctional expectations in posttraumatic stress disorder - Development and validation of the Posttraumatic Expectations Scale (PTES). Assessment. Assessmenthttps://doi.org/10.1177/10731911221089038

Herzog, P., Feldmann, M., Kube, T., Langs, G., Gärtner, T., Rauh, E., Doerr, R., Hillert, A., Voderholzer, U., Rief, W., Endres, D., & Brakemeier, E.-L. (2022). Inpatient psychotherapy for depression in a large routine clinical care sample: A Bayesian approach to examining clinical outcomes and predictors of change. Journal of Affective Disorders, 305, 133–143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2022.02.057

Herzog, P., Barth, C., Rief, W., Brakemeier, E.-L.*, & Kube, T.* (2022). How Expectations Shape the Formation of Intrusive Memories: An Experimental Study Using the Trauma Film Paradigm. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-022-10290-4

Kaiser, T., Herzog, P., Voderholzer, U., & Brakemeier, E.-L. (2022). Out of sight, out of mind? High discrepancy between observer- and patient-reported outcome after routine inpatient treatment for depression. Journal of Affective Disorders, 300, 322–325. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2022.01.019

 

2021

Sürig, S., Ohm, K., Grave, U., Glanert, S., Herzog, P., Fassbinder, E., Borgwardt, S., & Klein, J. P. (2021). Change in Interpersonal and Metacognitive Skills During Treatment With Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy and Metacognitive Therapy: Results From an Observational Study. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 0, 1383. https://doi.org/10.3389/FPSYT.2021.619674

Herzog, P., Häusler, S., Normann, C., & Brakemeier, E.-L. (2021). Negative Effects of a Multimodal Inpatient CBASP Program: Rate of Occurrence and Their Impact on Treatment Outcome in Chronic and Treatment-Resistant Depression. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 0, 1294. https://doi.org/10.3389/FPSYT.2021.575837

Feldmann, M., Hein, H. J., Voderholzer, U., Doerr, R., Hoff, T., Langs, G., Herzog, P., Kaiser, T., Rief, W., Riecke, J., & Brakemeier, E.-L. (2021). Cognitive Change and Relaxation as Key Mechanisms of Treatment Outcome in Chronic Pain: Evidence From Routine Care. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12, 1287. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.617871

Herzog, P., Osen, B., Stierle, C., Middendorf, T., Voderholzer, U., Koch, S., Feldmann, M., Rief, W., & Brakemeier, E.-L. (2021). Determining prognostic variables of treatment outcome in obsessive–compulsive disorder: effectiveness and its predictors in routine clinical care. European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00406-021-01284-6

Kaiser, T., Herzog, P., Voderholzer, U., & Brakemeier, E.-L. (2021). Unraveling the comorbidity of depression and anxiety in a large psychosomatic sample: A network analysis to examine bridge symptoms. Depression and Anxiety, da.23136. https://doi.org/10.1002/da.23136

 

2020

Herzog, P. & Jelinek, L. (2020). Die Rolle von Verhaltensexperimenten in der Behandlung von Zwangsstö rungen: Ein Update zur effektiven Gestaltung und Durchfü hrung in der Praxis. Verhaltenstherapie, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1159/000511923

Herzog, P., Voderholzer, U., Gärtner, T., Osen, B., Svitak, M., Doerr, R., Rolvering-Dijkstra, M., Feldmann, M., Rief, W., & Brakemeier, E.-L. (2020). Predictors of outcome during inpatient psychotherapy for posttraumatic stress disorder: A single-treatment, multi-site, practice-based study, Psychotherapy Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2020.1802081

Herzog, P., Feldmann, M., Voderholzer, U., Gärtner, T., Armbrust, M., Rauh, E., Doerr, R., R ief, W., & Brakemeier, E.-L. (2020). Drawing the borderline: Predicting treatment outcomes in patients with borderline personality disorder, Behaviour Research and Therapy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2020.103692

Kube, T., Berg, M., Kleim, B., & Herzog, P. (2020). Rethinking post-traumatic stress disorder – A predictive processing perspective. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 113(April), 448–460. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.04.014

 

2019

Herzog, P., Lauff, S., Rief, W., & Brakemeier, E.-L. (2019). Assessing the unwanted: A systematic review of instruments used to assess negative effects of psychotherapy. Brain and Behavior, 9(12). https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.1447

Kube, T., Herzog, P., Michalak, C. M., Glombiewski, J. A., Doering, B. K., & Rief, W. (2019). Further Specifying the Cognitive Model of Depression: Situational Expectations and Global Cognitions as Predictors of Depressive Symptoms. Clinical Psychology in Europe, 1(4), e33548. https://doi.org/10.32872/cpe.v1i4.33548

 

2018

Brakemeier, E.-L., Herzog, P., Radtke, M., Schneibel, R., Breger, V., Becker, M., ... Normann, C. (2018). CBASP als stationäres Behandlungskonzept der therapieresistenten chronischen Depression: Eine Pilotstudie zum Zusammenhang von Nebenwirkungen und Therapieerfolg. PPmP - Psychotherapie · Psychosomatik · Medizinische Psychologie, 68(09/10), 399–407. https://doi.org/10.1055/a-0629-7802

Kube, T.*, Siebers, V. H. A.*, Herzog, P., Glombiewski, J. A., Doering, B. K., & Rief, W. (2018). Integrating situation-specific dysfunctional expectations and dispositional optimism into the cognitive model of depression – A path-analytic approach. Journal of Affective Disorders, 229, 199-205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2017.12.082

* Authors contributed equally and shared authorship

 

Book Chapters
Herzog, P., & Linden, M. (2022). Empfehlungen zur Aufklärung von Patienten über Nebenwirkungen in der Psychotherapie. In M. Linden & B. Strauss (Hrsg.): Erfassung von Risiken und Nebenwirkungen von Psychotherapie. Berlin: MWV Verlag.

 

Preprints

Kube, T., & Herzog, P. (2022). Differential effects of positive and negative expectations on depressive symptoms. https://doi.org/10.21203/RS.3.RS-1509694/V1

Herzog, P., & Kaiser, T. (2022). Is it worth it to personalize the treatment of PTSD? - A variance-ratio meta-analysis and estimation of treatment effect heterogeneity in RCTs of PTSD. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/OSF.IO/U468B

Kube, T., Kirsch, I., Glombiewski, J., & Herzog, P. (2022). Can placebos prevent intrusive memories?. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/OSF.IO/VWZS3

Kaiser, T., Herzog, P., Lutz, W., Rief, W., Brakemeier, E.-L., & Zimmermann, J. (2021). The distinction between psychometric and clinimetric approaches will not move the field forward. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/OSF.IO/Q5EFB

Herzog, P., Barth, C., Rief, W., Brakemeier, E.-L.*, & Kube, T.* (2021). How expectations shape the formation of intrusive memories – An experimental study using the trauma film paradigm. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ta96q

Herzog, P., Kaiser, T., Rief, W., Brakemeier, E.-L.*, & Kube, T.* (2021). Assessing dysfunctional expectations in posttraumatic stress disorder – Development and validation of the Posttraumatic Expectations Scale (PTES). PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/e6g4b

* Authors contributed equally and shared authorship

 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (SELECTION)

Herzog, P. (2020/2021). Wie ein traumatisches Erlebnis die Wahrnehmung und Erwartungen beeinflusst – Ein „Predictive-Processing“-Modell der Posttraumatischen Belastungsstörung. Lecture presented at the 38th congress of the German Psychological Association (Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy Section), Mannheim (digital), Germany.

Herzog, P., & Brakemeier, E.-L. (2019). Predicting changes in patients suffering from depression in routine clinical care: A Bayesian approach. Lecture presented at the 9th World Congress of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies 2019, Berlin, Germany.

Herzog, P. (2019). Assessing the unwanted: Detecting and monitoring side effects of psychological interventions. Lecture presented at the 9th World Congress of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies 2019, Berlin, Germany.

Herzog, P. (2019). Die Kunst der Vorhersage von individuellen Therapieverläufen bei Zwangsstörungen: Wirksamkeit und deren Prädiktoren in der Routineversorgung. Lecture presented at the 37th congress of the German Psychological Association (Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy Section), Erlangen, Germany.

Herzog, P. (2019). Assessing the unwanted: Die Erfassung von Nebenwirkungen in der Psychotherapie. Lecture presented at the 37th congress of the German Psychological Association (Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy Section), Erlangen, Germany.

Herzog, P. (2018). Assessing the unwanted: Die Erfassung von Nebenwirkungen in der Psychotherapie. Lecture presented at the Congress 2018 of the German Association for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics e. V. (DGPPN), Berlin, Germany.

Herzog, P., Voderholzer, U., Feldmann, M., Rief, W., & Brakemeier, E.-L. (2018). From explanation to prediction: Identifying predictors of treatment outcome in PTSD. Open paper presented at the 48th Congress of the European Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (EABCT), Sofia,
Bulgaria.