Adbvanced Chair Work (T8)

by Arnoud Arntz

Abstract:

Arnoud Arntz's research focuses on psychological processes and treatment underlying personality disorders (PDs), with a focus on borderline personality disorder (BPD) and anxiety disorders, especially PTSD. Using the approach of experimental psychopathology, Arnoud tested psychological theories of anxiety disorders and PDs and contributed to the development of their psychological treatment. In developing and testing psychological theories and treatments Arnoud aims to connect basic research and clinical work. He is perhaps best known for his contributions to the development of Schema Therapy and Imagery Rescripting. Arnoud was project leader of the multi-center RCT that compared schema therapy (ST) to Transference Focused Psychotherapy as treatments of Borderline PD, and of another multi-center RCT that compared ST to treatment as usual (TAU) and CCT for 6 other PDs. Currently Arnoud is PI of an international RCT comparing working mechanisms of Imagery Rescripting and EMDR for PTSD that originated from childhood traumas, and together with Dr Joan Farrell, PI of the international RCT that compares group-ST to TAU for Borderline PD. Professor Arntz also chairs a Dutch-German collaborative study investigating basic brain and cognitive processes in BPD and their change during treatment, which is associated with the international RCT on group-ST.

About the Presenter:

Arnoud Arntz

Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, with an affiliation at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. His main research interests lie in the fields of PTSD and personality disorders, both applied and fundamental. He also practices as a psychotherapist at PsyQ in Amsterdam, where he treats patients with trauma and personality disorders. Together with Adam Radomsky he was editor of the Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry.