Research areas

• – Psychopathology
• – Attachment
• – Personality disorders
• – Complex trauma
• – Competence development

Methodological and/or psychotherapeutic expertise

• – Psychopathology
• – Assessment
• – Psychotherapy research

Short biography

Johannes C. Ehrenthal, psychologist, psychological psychotherapist. Professor of Clinical Psychology and Empirical-Quantitative Psychodynamic Psychotherapy at the University of Cologne, Germany. Studied at the University of Göttingen, worked and completed his doctorate at the University of Heidelberg, and Held further positions at the Universities of Kassel, Klagenfurt and Penn State University.

Relevant publications

• Ehrenthal, J. C., Levy, K. N., Scott, L. N., & Granger, D. A. (2018). Attachment-related regulatory processes moderate the impact of adverse childhood experiences on stress reaction in borderline personality disorder. Journal of Personality Disorders, 32(Suppl), 93.
• Mayer, C. J., Mahal, J., Geisel, D., Geiger, E. J., Staatz, E., Zappel, M., Lerch, S. P., Ehrenthal, J. C., Walter, S., & Ditzen, B. (2024). User preferences and trust in hypothetical analog, digitalized and AI-based medical consultation scenarios: An online discrete choice survey. Computers in Human Behavior, 161, 108419.
• Ehrenthal, J. C., Kruse, J., Schmalbach, B., Dinger, U., Werner, S., Schauenburg, H., Brähler, E., & Kampling, H. (2023). Measuring personality functioning with the 12-item version of the OPD-Structure Questionnaire (OPD-SQS): Reliability, factor structure, validity, and measurement invariance in the general population. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1248992.
• Ehrenthal, J. C., Clauss, J., von Tettenborn, A., & Reck, C. (2022). Experience-based competency training in child and adolescent psychotherapy – A pilot study with university students. Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie, 50, 168-178.
• Ehrenthal, J. C., Zimmermann, J., Brenk-Franz, K., Dinger, U., Schauenburg, H., Brähler, E., & Strauß, B. (2021). Evaluation of a short version of the Experiences in Close Relationships – Revised questionnaire (ECR-RD8): results from a representative German sample. BMC Psychology, 9, 140.
• Jennissen, S., Nikendei, C., Ehrenthal, J. C., Schauenburg, H., & Dinger, U. (2020). Influence of patient and therapist agreement and disagreement about their alliance on symptom severity over the course of treatment: A response surface analysis. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 67, 326-336.