Official position
Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Leipzig
Institution
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Leipzig Medical Center (ULMC), Medical Faculty, University of Leipzig
Business address
Semmelweistraße 10, Haus 13
04103 Leipzig
Academic education and degrees
1994 - 2002 | Medical
School, Universities of Freiburg and Hannover |
1997 - 1998 | Medical School, clinical internship, King’s
College, London |
2008 | Board Certification in Adult Psychiatry and
Psychotherapy |
2010 | Postdoctoral lecture qualification (venia
legendi), University of Greifswald |
Professional career
| 2010 | Assistant Professor, University of Greifswald |
2013 | Visiting Researcher, Institute of Psychiatry,
King’s College London |
2014 -2016 | Head of Community Psychiatry and Outpatient
Treatment Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Greifswald |
2016 - 2019 | Vice-chairman, Department of Psychiatry and
Psychotherapy, University of Greifswald |
Honors, awards and positions
Current Journal Editorial positions
10 most important peer-reviewed papers (10 out of 175, Scopus h-index: 30)
Angermeyer MC, van der Auwera S, Carta MG, Schomerus G (2017). Public attitudes towards psychiatry and psychiatric treatment at the beginning of the 21st century: a systematic review and meta-analysis of population surveys. World Psychiatry; 16(1):50-61. (IF: 40.595).
Schomerus G, Stolzenburg S, Angermeyer MC (2015) Impact of the Germanwings plane crash on mental illness stigma: results from two population surveys in Germany before and after the incident. World Psychiatry; 14:362-3. (Research Letter, IF: 40.595)
Schomerus G, Schwahn C, Holzinger A, Corrigan PW, Grabe HJ, Carta MG, Angermeyer MC (2012). Evolution of public attitudes about mental illness: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Acta Psychiatr Scand; 125(6):440-452. (ca. 800 citations, IF: 5.362,)
Giacco D, Amering M, Bird V, Craig T, Ducci G, Gallinat J, Gillard SG, Greacen T, Hadridge P, Johnson S, Jovanovic N, Laugharne R, Morgan C, Muijen M, Schomerus G, Zinkler M, Wessely S, Priebe S (2017). Scenarios for the future of mental health care: a social perspective. Lancet Psychiatry; 4(3):257-260. (IF 16.209)
Angermeyer M.C., Matschinger H., Schomerus G. (2013). Attitudes towards psychiatric treatment and people with mental illness: changes over two decades. Br J Psychiatry 203,146-51. (IF: 7.233).
Schomerus G, Van der Auwera S, Matschinger H, Baumeister SE, Angermeyer MC (2015). Do attitudes towards persons with mental illness worsen during the course of life? An age-period-cohort analysis. Acta Psychiatr Scand; 132:357-64.
Schomerus G, Stolzenburg S, Freitag S, Speerforck S, Janowitz D, Evans-Lacko S, Muehlan H, Schmidt S (2019). Stigma as a barrier to recognizing personal mental illness and seeking help: a prospective study among untreated persons with mental illness. Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci; 269:469-479.
Schomerus G, Lucht M, Holzinger A, Matschinger H, Carta MG, Angermeyer MC (2011). The stigma of alcohol dependence compared with other mental disorders: a review of population studies. Alcohol Alcohol; 46:105-112.
Schomerus G, Angermeyer MC, Baumeister SE, Stolzenburg S, Link BG, Phelan JC (2016). An online intervention using information on the mental health-mental illness continuum to reduce stigma. Eur Psychiatry; 32:21-7.
Schomerus G, Matschinger H, Angermeyer MC (2014). Causal beliefs of the public and social acceptance of persons with mental illness: a comparative analysis of schizophrenia, depression and alcohol dependence. Psychol Med; 44:303-14.
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