Beruflicher Werdegang:

• 1990 - 1997 Studium der Humanmedizin in Marburg, praktisches Jahr in Marburg und Pretoria
• 1998 Promotion („Differentielle Wirkung von GLP-1 auf Magenentleerung, antroduodenale Motilität, exokrine Pankreassekretion und Glukosehomöostase beim Menschen“), magna cum laude
• 1998 - 2002 Assistenzarzt am Zentrum für soziale Psychiatrie Kurhessen, Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie Merxhausen (Prof. Dr. H. Kunze)
• 2001 - 2002 Elternzeit
• 2002 - 2005 wissenschaftlicher Assistent an der Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie der Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald im HANSE-Klinikum Stralsund (2003 – 2004 neurologisches Jahr an der entsprechenden Universitätsklinik)
• seit 01. 2006 Oberarzt (Station 53, Leitung der Liaisondienste Psychoonkologie und Schmerztherapie)
• 2009 DeGPT-Förderpreis der Falk-von Reichenbach-Stiftung für herausragende Leistungen in der Psychotraumatologie
• 2010 Habilitation ("Longterm effects of World War II trauma on mental health in the elderly German population") und Venia legendi für Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Psychosomatische Medizin
• 2012 Aspirin-Sozialpreis (erster Platz) für Kooperationsprojekt "Lebenstagebuch"

Arbeits- und Forschungsschwerpunkte

• Psychotraumatologie, speziell Folgen kollektiver Gewalt.
• Trauma und PTSD bei Älteren, Kriegstraumatisierungen.
• Psychotraumatologische Therapieforschung: Integrative Testimonial Therapie (ITT), www.lebenstagebuch.de [in Kooperation mit dem Berliner Behandlungszentrum für Folteropfer (bzfo)]
• Balintgruppenleiter (DBG)
• Laufende Ausbildung zum Psychoanalytiker (DGPT, DPV)

Mitgliedschaften

• Deutsche Balintgesellschaft (DBG)

Gutachtertätigkeit

British Medical Journal, Canadian Medical Association Journal, Yonsei Medical Journal, Psychosomatic Medicine, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Journal of Traumatic Stress, Journal of Affective Disorders, International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Personal Relationships, International Psychogeriatrics, Annals of General Psychiatry, Psychosomatik – Psychotherapie - medizinische Psychologie, Psychiatrische Praxis, Collegium Antropologicum, Trauma & Gewalt, 20th World Conference on Health Promotion, Balint-Journal, Stress and Health; Forensic Science International; Psychiatria Danubina; Psychology of Violence; Clinical Interventions in Aging; Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Reproductive Biology, International Journal of Sociology and Anthropology, PLOS ONE, Psychiatry Research, BMC Psychiatry; Deutscher Kongress für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie 2012 u.a.

Board member und guest editor: Trauma & Gewalt – Forschung und Praxisfelder

Editorial board member: Journal of Trauma & Treatment

Ausgewählte Publikationen

Kuwert P, Spitzer C, Träder A, Freyberger HJ, Ermann M (2007): 60 years later: Posttraumatic stress symptoms and current psychopathology in former German children of World War II. International Psychogeriatrics 19(5): 955-961.

Kuwert P, Brähler E, Glaesmer H, Freyberger HJ, Decker O. (2009): Impact of forced displacement in World War II on present-state Mental Health in the elderly – a population-based study. International Psychogeriatrics 21: 748-753.

Forstmeier S, Kuwert P, Spitzer C, Freyberger HJ, Maercker A (2009): Posttraumatic Growth, Social Acknowledgement as Survivor and Sense of Coherence in Former German Child Soldiers of World War II. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 17(12):1030-1039.

Kuwert P, Klauer T, Eichhorn S, Grundke E, Dudeck M, Schomerus G, Freyberger HJ. (2010): Trauma and current posttraumatic stress symptoms in elderly German women who experienced wartime rape in 1945. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 198: 450-451.

Jovanovic N*, Kuwert P*, Sarajlic Vukovic I, Poredos Lavor D, Medved V, Kovac M, Dudeck M, Vogel M, Freyberger HJ, Grabe HJ. (2010): Impact of War Trauma and PTSD on Psychopathology in Croatian and German patients with Severe Mental Illness. Croatian Medical Journal, Apr 15;51(2):131-6. (*: both authors contributed equally)

Aktuelles Forschungsprojekt:

Research Network "Children born of war in the 20th century"

This research network built up by the Arts & Research Council in the UK is working about children fathered by (foreign) soldiers and born to local women (children born of war – CBOW), which have been a feature of warfare for centuries, yet have remained largely unnoticed by public and academia. As a result of the changing nature of war and civil war, the issue of war-affected children in general and of children born of war, children of child soldiers and children of peacekeepers in particular is an increasingly pressing concern.

The network plans to bring togehter researchers and practioners seeking to develop a better understanding of the issues affecting CBOW. This will include historians, social scientists, philosophers, lawyers, ethicists and psychiatrists. In addition, military personnel, NGOs dealing with children born of war in recent conflicts, policy makers (e.g. in the UN) and psychiatrists will be integrated in workshop and related research projects.

Key participants:

Sabine Lee, Birmingham Centre for the Study of War

Ingvill Mochmann, Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences, Cologne

Barbara Stelzl-Marx, Ludwig Bolzmann Institute for Research on War Consequences

Philipp Kuwert, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University Greifswald, Department of Psychiatry

Jocelyn Kelly, Harvard School of Public Health

Eunice Apio, Faciliation for Peace and Development, Northern Uganda

Mendy March, UNICEF and UN