Dr. André Kerber

Clinical Psychological Intervention

Research Assistant (externally funded project)

Address

Schwendenerstr 27
Room 002
14195 Berlin

Telephone

+49 30 838 63093

andre.kerber(at)fu-berlin.de

2024 - PhD in Clinical Psychology at Freien Universität Berlin (Dr. rer. nat.)

2018 – License to practice Psychotherapy by the State Office for Health Berlin - Specialization CBT
2013 – Diplom Psychologie, Universität Potsdam
2009 – Bachelor of Science Cognitive Science, Universität Osnabrück

Academic Career

since January 2017: Research assistant, Division of Clinical Psychological Intervention, Freie Universität Berlin

Clinical Experience and Career

since 2019: Psychotherapy Training at the Berlin Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy - Specialization: Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Therapy

since 2018: Psychotherapeutic Practice in 10115 Berlin, Linienstr. 130

2015 - 2018 Practice of long- and short-term Psychotherapy under Supervision

2015 - 2016 Clinical practice (trainee) in the psychiatric inpatient clinic Parkklinik Sophie Charlotte in Berlin

2013 - 2014 Clinical practice (trainee) in the psychotherapeutic outpatient clinic of the DGVT (German Association for Behavioral Therapy) in Berlin

2013 - 2018 Psychotherapy training at the German Association for Behavioral Therapy (DGVT) in Berlin - Specialization Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Peer-reviewed articles

2025

Kerber, A., Heim, P., & Remmers, C. (2025). Dimensionale Ansätze in der Diagnostik und Behandlung psychischer Erkrankungen. Teil 2: Persönlichkeitsfunktion, maladaptive Traits und die Hierarchische Taxonomie der Psychopathologie in der Praxis. PSYCH up2date. https://doi.org/10.1055/a-2520-3727

Kerber, A., Heim, P., & Remmers, C. (2025). Dimensionale Ansätze in der Diagnostik und Behandlung psychischer Erkrankungen. Teil 1: Persönlichkeitsfunktion und maladaptive Traits in DSM-5 und ICD-11. PSYCH up2date. https://doi.org/10.1055/a-1846-9072

Liebnau, J., Betzler, F., & Kerber, A. (2025). Catalyst for change: Psilocybin’s antidepressant mechanisms—A systematic review. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 39(5), 397-415. https://doi.org/10.1177/02698811241312866

2024

Kerber, A., Ehrenthal, J.C., Zimmermann, J., Remmers, C., Nolte, T., Wendt, L.P., Heim, P., Müller, S., Beintner, I., Knaevelsrud, C. (2024). Examining the role of personality functioning in a hierarchical taxonomy of psychopathology using two years of ambulatory assessed data. Translational Psychiatry, 14, 340. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-024-03046-z

Komasi, S., Kerber, A., & Hopwood, C. J. (2024). A Meta-Analysis of the Structural Validity of Original and Brief Versions of the Personality Inventory for DSM-5 in Iran. Iranian Journal of Psychiatry, 1-16.

Komasi, S., Kerber, A., & Hopwood, C. J. (2024). Validation of the Persian Version of the ICD-11 Compatible Personality Inventory for DSM-5–Brief Form Plus, Modified. Journal of Personality Assessment, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2024.2420872

Ohse, L., Kerber, A., Zimmermann, J., Kampe, L., Mohr, J., Busch, O., Rentrop, M., & Hörz-Sagstetter, S. (2024). Empirical Convergence Between Kernberg’s Model of Personality Organization and the Alternative DSM-5 Model for Personality Disorders. Personality and Mental Health.

von Schrottenberg, V., Kerber, A., Sterner, P., Teusen, C., Beigel, P., Linde, K., Henningsen, P., Herpertz, S.C., Gensichen, J., Schneider, A. & POKAL-Study Group (2024). Exploring Associations of Somatic Symptom Disorder with Personality Dysfunction and Specific Maladaptive Traits. Psychopathology, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1159/000540161

2023

Beintner, I., Kerber, A., Dominke, C., Voderholzer, U. (2023). App-based self-guided self-management to improve mild to moderate depression: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. JMIR Research Protocols. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/46651

Kerber, A., Beintner, I., Burchert, S., J., Knaevelsrud, C. (2023). Effects of a self-guided transdiagnostic smartphone app on patient empowerment and mental health: A randomized controlled trial. JMIR Mental Health. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/45068

Kerber, A., Gewehr, E., Zimmermann, J., Sachser, C., M. Fegert, J., Knaevelsrud, C., & Spitzer, C. (2023). Adverse childhood experiences and personality functioning interact substantially in predicting depression, anxiety, and somatization. Personality and Mental Health, 1– 13. https://doi.org/10.1002/pmh.1578

Macina*, C., Kerber*, A., Zimmermann, J., Ohse, L., Kampe, L., Mohr, J., Walter, M., Hörz-Sagstetter, S. & Wrege, J. S. (2023). Evaluating the Psychometric Properties of the German Self and Interpersonal Functioning Scale (SIFS). Journal of Personality Assessment. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2023.2268199

Mazreku, G., Birkhoelzer, M., Cosgun, S., Kerber, A., Schmeck, K., Goth, K. (2023). Impaired Personality Functioning in Children and Adolescents assessed with the LoPF-Q 6–18 PR in Parent-Report and Convergence with Maladaptive Personality Traits and Personality Structure in School and Clinic Samples. Children. https://doi.org/10.3390/children10071186

Ohse, L., Zimmermann, J., Kerber, A., Kampe, L., Mohr, J., Schierz, R., Rentrop, M., Dziobek, I., & Hörz-Sagstetter, S. (2023). Impairments in Cognitive and Emotional Empathy as Markers of General vs. Specific Personality Pathology. Psychopathology. https://doi.org/10.1159/000533861

2022

Ohse, L., Zimmermann, J., Kerber, A., Kampe, L., Mohr, J., Kendlbacher, J., Busch, O., Rentrop, M., & Hörz-Sagstetter, S. (2022). Reliability, structure, and validity of module I (personality functioning) of the Structured Clinical Interview for the alternative DSM–5 model for personality disorders (SCID-5-AMPD-I). Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment. Advance online publication. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/per0000576

Semmlinger, V., Burchert, S., Ehring, T., Glaesmer, H., Hammelrath, L., Heim, E., Kampisiou, C., Kerber, A., Knaevelsrud, C., Schönfelder, A. & Sierau, S. (2022). Kulturell adaptierte Diagnostik und Intervention, Dropout und Datenmanagement. Trauma & Gewalt, 16(3), 188-197. https://doi.org/10.21706/tg-16-3-188

Quirin, M.*, Kerber, A.*, Küstermann, E., Radtke, E.L., Kazén, M., Konrad, C., Baumann, N., Ryan, R.M., Ennis, M. and Kuhl, J. (2022). Not the Master of Your Volitional Mind? The Roles of the Right Medial Prefrontal Cortex and Personality Traits in Unconscious Introjections Versus Self-Chosen Goals. Frontiers in Psychology, 13:740925. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.740925

*shared first authorship

2021

Burchert, S., Kerber, A., Zimmermann, J., & Knaevelsrud, C. (2021). Screening accuracy of a 14-day smartphone ambulatory assessment of depression symptoms and mood dynamics in a general population sample: Comparison with the PHQ-9 depression screening. PLOS ONE, 16(1), e0244955. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244955

Kerber, A., Beintner, I., Burchert, S., & Knaevelsrud, C. (2021). Does app-based unguided self-management improve mental health literacy, patient empowerment and access to care for people with mental health impairments? Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. BMJ open, 11(7), e049688. http://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-049688

Kerber, A., Roth, M., & Herzberg, P. Y. (2021). Personality types revisited – a literature-informed and data-driven approach to an integration of prototypical and dimensional constructs of personality description. PLOS ONE, 16(1), e0244849. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244849

Kerber, A., Schäuffele, C., Krieger, T., Urech, A., Riper, H., Berger, T., Boettcher, J., Knaevelsrud, C. (2021). Differential Effects of Psychological Interventions in Online and Face-to-Face Settings on DSM-5 and ICD-11 Maladaptive Trait Domains: An Exploratory Pilot Study. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.648367

Spitzer, C., Müller, S., Kerber, A., Hutsebaut, J., Brähler, E., Zimmermann, J. (in press). The German Version of the Level of Personality Functioning Scale-Brief Form 2.0 (LPFS-BF): Latent Structure, Convergent Validity and Norm
Values in the General Population. Psychother Psych Med. https://doi.org/10.1055/a-1343-2396

2020

Bach, B., Kerber, A., Aluja, A., Bastiaens, T., Keeley, J. W., Claes, L., Fossati, A., Gutierrez, F., Oliveira, S. E. S., Pires, R., Riegel, K. D., Rolland, J., Roskam, I., Sellbom, M., Somma, A., Spanenberg, L., Włodzimierz, S., Thimm, J., Wright, A. G. C., & Zimmermann, J. (2020). International Assessment of DSM-5 and ICD-11 Personality Disorder Traits: Toward a Common Nosology in DSM-5.1. Psychopathology, 53, 179-188. https://doi.org/10.1159/000507589

Kerber, A., Schultze, M., Müller, S., Rühling, R. M., Wright, A. G. C., Spitzer, C., Krueger, R. F., Knaevelsrud, C., & Zimmermann, J. (2020). Development of a Short and ICD-11 Compatible Measure for DSM-5 Maladaptive Personality Traits Using Ant Colony Optimization Algorithms. Assessment. https://doi.org/10.1177/1073191120971848

2019

Zimmermann, J., Kerber, A., Rek, K., Hopwood C.J., & Krueger, R.F. (2019). A Brief but Comprehensive Review of Research on the Alternative DSM-5 Model for Personality Disorders. Current Psychiatry Reports, 21, 92. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11920-019-1079-z

Publications in books and journals

Remmers, C. & Kerber, A. (2023). Kategoriale und Dimensionale Ansätze in der Diagnostik Psychischer Störungen. In J. Michalak & T. Heidenreich (Hrsg.), Verhaltenstherapie in Bewegung. Beltz-Verlag.

Other publications

Entwicklung einer verbundübergreifenden Website für das BMBF Fördermaßnahme “Forschungsverbünde zur psychischen Gesundheit geflüchteter Menschen”. https://www.mentalhealth4refugees.de/

Conference presentations

2024

Kerber, A., Adam, L., Halmschlager, N., Zimmermann, J. (2024). Assoziationen zwischen maladaptiven Persönlichkeitseigenschaften und chronischen somatischen Erkrankungen: Ergebnisse einer repräsentativen, deutschlandweiten Erhebung. Presentation at Deutscher Kongress für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie.

Kerber, A., Klein, E.M., Zagorscak, P., Schäuffele, C., Munder, T., Zimmermann, J., Maaß, U., Heim, P., Böttche, M. (2024). Erfassung von psychotherapeutischen Wirkfaktoren in psychiatrischen Settings und bei internetbasierten Interventionen – Finding a common ground. Presentation at Deutscher Psychotherapie Kongress.

Kerber, A., Klein, E.M., Zagorscak, P., Schäuffele, C., Munder, T., Zimmermann, J., Maaß, U., Heim, P., Böttche, M. (2024). Cross-modal assessment of psychological impact factors in face to face and in internet-based interventions - Finding a common ground. Presentation at Annual Meeting of the International Society for Research on Internet Interventions.

Kerber, A. Personality Functioning, HiTOP, and the p-factor: Measurement artifact or return of etiological theories? (2024). Keynote, Workshop The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology: Potentials and Challenges for Psychotherapy Research, Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwigs Maximilians Universität München.

2023

Kerber, A., Ehrenthal, J., Heim, P., Nolte, T., Remmers, C., Beintner, I., Zimmermann, J., & Knaevelsrud, C., (2023). Personality functioning as a transdiagnostic construct in HiTOP - A Bass-Ackwards analysis based on ambulatory assessed data. Presentation at Presentation at the 53th annual international meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR) in Dublin, Ireland.

Kerber, A., Michel, C., Beintner, I., Burchert, S., Knaevelsrud, C., (2023) Direct and indirect effects of MindDoc on mental health: Improvement of patient empowerment and self-management skills may substantially mediate effects of unguided mental health apps. Presentation at the 7th conference of the European society for research on internet interventions (ESRII).

2022

Kerber, A., Heinzmann, S., Ehrenthal, J., Burchert, S., Zimmermann, J., & Knaevelsrud, C., (2022). Die Vorhersage von Depression in einem dynamischen Multilevelmodell durch die Persönlichkeitsfunktion und dynamische Stimmungs- und Situationsparameter. Presentation at "1. Deutscher Psychotherapiekongress" in Berlin, Germany

Kerber., A., (2022). Dimensionale Diagnostik psychischer Störungen im Rahmen der Hierarchischen Taxonomie (HiTOP). Presentation at Gemeinsamer Kongress der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Neuropsychopharmakologie und Pharmakopsychiatrie und der deutschen Gesellschaft für biologische Psychiatrie in Berlin, Germany.

Kerber, A., Heinzmann, S., Ehrenthal, J., Burchert, S., Zimmermann, J., & Knaevelsrud, C., (2022). Linking Personality Functioning, Daily Situations and General Psychopathology in a Large Sample of Users of a Mental Health App. Presentation at Presentation at the 53th annual international meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR) in Denver, USA

Kerber, A., Goth, K., Moehler, E., Sevecke, K., Sarrar, L., Cropp, C., Birkhoelzer, M., (2022) Self and informant assessments of maladaptive traits with the age-specific PID5BF+ M CA in adolescent school and clinic samples. Presentation at the European Society for the Study of Personality Disorders (ESSPD) congress in Brüssels, Belgium.

Kerber, A., Heim, P., Beintner, I., Ehrenthal, J., Zimmermann, J., & Knaevelsrud, C., (2022). Persönlichkeitsfunktion als transdiagnostisches Konstrukt in HiTOP – Eine Bass-Ackwards-Analyse auf Basis ambulatorisch erfasster Daten. Presentation at Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik und Nervenheilkunde (DGPPN) congress in Berlin, Germany.

Kerber, A., Beintner, I., Burchert, S., Knaevelsrud, C., (2022)., Hilft die MindDoc-App Menschen mit psychischen Beschwerden? Ergebnisse einer randomisierten kontrollierten Studie. Presentation at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik und Nervenheilkunde (DGPPN) congress in Berlin, Germany.

2021

Kerber, A. (2021). Veränderbarkeit von maladaptiven Traits nach DSM-5 und ICD-11 durch psychologische Interventionen in Online- und Face-to-Face-Settings. Presentation at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik und Nervenheilkunde (DGPPN) congress.

Kerber, A., Gewehr, E., Fegert, J., Zimmermann, J., Spitzer, C. (2021). Das Funktionsniveau der Persönlichkeit als Moderator zwischen ungünstigen Kindheitserfahrungen und aktueller psychopathologischer Belastung. Talk at Deutscher Kongress für psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie (DKPM).

Kerber, A., Schäuffele, C., Krieger, T., Urech, A., Riper, H., Berger, T., Boettcher, J., Knaevelsrud, C. (2021). Differential Effects of Psychological Interventions in Online and Face-to-Face Settings on DSM-5 and ICD-11 Maladaptive Trait Domains: An Exploratory Pilot Study. Presentation at the 52th annual international meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR) in Heidelberg, Germany.

Kerber, A., Schäuffele, C., Krieger, T., Urech, A., Riper, H., Berger, T., Boettcher, J., Knaevelsrud, C. (2021). Differential Effects of Psychological Interventions in Online and Face-to-Face Settings on DSM-5 and ICD-11 Maladaptive Trait Domains: An Exploratory Pilot Study. Presentation at the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders (ISSPD) congress.

Kerber, A., Volkert, J. (2021). Paradigmenwechsel im ICD-11: Praktische und theoretische Implikationen der dimensionalen Erfassung von Persönlichkeitspathologie. Symposium at the 38th Conference of the Division of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy of the German Psychological Society (DGPs).

2019

Kerber, A., Knaevelsrud, C., Zimmermann, J., Krieger, T. (2019). New developments in ICD-11 and DSM-5: Personality Functioning and Maladaptive Traits as Transdiagnostic Moderators of Psychopathology and Targets for Clinical Intervention. Presentation at the 9th World Congress of Behavioural & Cognitive Therapies in Berlin, Germany

Kerber, A., Zimmermann, J., Knaevelsrud, C. (2019). Neue dimensionale Modelle der Psychopathologie: Erfassung maladaptiver Persönlichkeitseigenschaften nach ICD-11 und DSM-5 mit ersten Befunden zur Veränderbarkeit. Presentation at the annual meeting of the German Association of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics (DGPPN) in Berlin, Germany.

2018

Kerber, A. (2018). Proposal of a Treatment-Rationale-Independent Framework for Quality Assessment and Research Data Generation in Psychotherapy. Presentation at the 49th Annual International Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR) in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Kerber, A., Zimmermann, J., Knaevelsrud, C. (2018). Sind maladaptive Persönlichkeitseigenschaften zentral in Genese und Remission depressiver Erkrankungen? Eine Untersuchung der prädiktiven Validität der dimensionalen Erfassung von Persönlichkeitspathologie nach DSM-5. Presentation at the annual meeting of the German Association of Psychiatry Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics (DGPPN) in Berlin, Germany.