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h-index: 17
Works: 51
Citations: 1,192

Most-cited papers

Stigma as a barrier to recognizing personal mental illness and seeking help: a prospective study among untreated persons with mental illness
G. Schomerus, S. Stolzenburg, Simone Freitag, S. Speerforck +4 more
2019European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience187 citations Open access
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Stigmatization of people with alcohol use disorders: An updated systematic review of population studies.
C. Kilian, J. Manthey, S. Carr, Franz Hanschmidt +3 more
2021Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research169 citations Open access
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The stigma of alcohol-related liver disease and its impact on healthcare.
G. Schomerus, Anya Leonhard, J. Manthey, J. Morris +5 more
2022Journal of Hepatology167 citations Open access
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Continuum beliefs and mental illness stigma: a systematic review and meta-analysis of correlation and intervention studies
Lina-Jolien Peter, S. Schindler, C. Sander, S. Schmidt +5 more
2021Das Gesundheitswesen98 citations Open access
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Different biogenetic causal explanations and attitudes towards persons with major depression, schizophrenia and alcohol dependence: is the concept of a chemical imbalance beneficial?
S. Speerforck, G. Schomerus, S. Pruess, M. Angermeyer
2014Journal of Affective Disorders61 citations
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Trends in non-help-seeking for mental disorders in Germany between 1997–1999 and 2009–2012: a repeated cross-sectional study
S. Brandstetter, F. Dodoo-Schittko, S. Speerforck, C. Apfelbacher +5 more
2017Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology50 citations
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Individuals with currently untreated mental illness: causal beliefs and readiness to seek help
S. Stolzenburg, Simone Freitag, S. Evans-Lacko, S. Speerforck +2 more
2018Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences48 citations Open access
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Stigma as a barrier to addressing childhood trauma in conversation with trauma survivors: A study in the general population
G. Schomerus, S. Schindler, Theresia Rechenberg, Tobias Gfesser +5 more
2021PLoS ONE40 citations Open access
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Understanding the Association between Alcohol Stigma and Alcohol Consumption within Europe: A Cross-Sectional Exploratory Study
J. Kummetat, Anya Leonhard, J. Manthey, S. Speerforck +1 more
2022European Addiction Research29 citations Open access
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ADHD, stigma and continuum beliefs: A population survey on public attitudes towards children and adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
S. Speerforck, S. Stolzenburg, Johannes Hertel, H. Grabe +4 more
2019Psychiatry Research29 citations Open access
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Treatment recommendations for schizophrenia, major depression and alcohol dependence and stigmatizing attitudes of the public: results from a German population survey
S. Speerforck, G. Schomerus, H. Matschinger, M. Angermeyer
2017European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience25 citations
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The relation between childhood adversity and adult obesity in a population-based study in women and men
T. Fleischer, C. Ulke, M. Beutel, H. Binder +11 more
2021Scientific Reports23 citations Open access
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Stigma in Multiple Sclerosis: The Important Role of Sense of Coherence and Its Relation to Quality of Life
L. Grothe, M. Grothe, J. Wingert, G. Schomerus +1 more
2021International Journal of Behavioral Medicine22 citations Open access
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Some good news for psychiatry: resource allocation preferences of the public during the COVID‐19 pandemic
G. Schomerus, E. Baumann, C. Sander, S. Speerforck +1 more
2021World Psychiatry21 citations Open access
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Socio-political context as determinant of childhood maltreatment: a population-based study among women and men in East and West Germany
Christine Ulke, T. Fleischer, H. Muehlan, L. Altweck +10 more
2021Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences21 citations Open access
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Homelessness: care for the most vulnerable – a narrative review of risk factors, health needs, stigma, and intervention strategies
S. Schreiter, S. Speerforck, G. Schomerus, S. Gutwinski
2021Current Opinion in Psychiatry17 citations
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Children and Adults: A Population Survey on Public Beliefs
S. Speerforck, Johannes Hertel, S. Stolzenburg, H. Grabe +3 more
2019Journal of Attention Disorders17 citations Open access
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Add-on Cariprazine in Patients with Long-term Clozapine Treatment and Treatment Resistant Schizophrenia: Two Cases of Psychotic Deterioration and Pisa Syndrome
Judith Weise, G. Schomerus, S. Speerforck
2022Clinical Psychopharmacology and Neuroscience15 citations Open access
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Shifting blame? Impact of reports of violence and mental illness in the context of terrorism on population attitudes towards persons with mental illness in Germany.
G. Schomerus, S. Stolzenburg, Alexandra Bauch, S. Speerforck +2 more
2017Psychiatry Research15 citations
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The interplay of gender, social context, and long-term unemployment effects on subjective health trajectories
L. Altweck, S. Hahm, H. Muehlan, Tobias Gfesser +6 more
2021BMC Public Health14 citations Open access
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12-year changes in cardiovascular risk factors in people with major depressive or bipolar disorder: a prospective cohort analysis in Germany
S. Speerforck, F. Dodoo-Schittko, S. Brandstetter, C. Apfelbacher +5 more
2018European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience14 citations
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Internalized stigma in mental health staff with lived experience of mental crises–Does the professional role protect against self-stigmatization?
Stefan Stuetzle, A. Brieger, Christian Lust, Angel Ponew +2 more
2023Frontiers in Psychiatry13 citations Open access
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‘Concept creep’ in perceptions of mental illness — an experimental examination of prevalence-induced concept change
S. Speerforck, Vanessa C. Jürgensen, M. Göbel, N. Meyer +1 more
2024European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience11 citations Open access
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An explorative cross-sectional analysis of mental health shame and help-seeking intentions in different lifestyles
C. Helmert, T. Fleischer, S. Speerforck, C. Ulke +7 more
2023Scientific Reports9 citations Open access
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Even Now Women Focus on Family, Men on Work: An Analysis of Employment, Marital, and Reproductive Life-Course Typologies in Relation to Change in Health-Related Quality of Life
L. Altweck, S. Hahm, S. Schmidt, C. Ulke +7 more
2022Applied Research in Quality of Life8 citations Open access
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Development and validity of the Value-based Stigma Inventory (VASI): a value-sensitive questionnaire for the assessment of mental health stigma
Sophia Rieckhof, C. Sander, S. Speerforck, E. Prestin +2 more
2021BMC Psychiatry8 citations Open access
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„Mental Health Awareness“ – eine Entwicklung ohne Nebenwirkungen?
S. Speerforck, Georg Schomerus
2024Psychiatrische Praxis7 citations Open access
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Lived experiences matter: The role of mental health professionals’ psychological crises and vulnerability in shaping their health beliefs and concepts
Angel Ponew, A. Brieger, Christian Lust, S. Speerforck +2 more
2023Frontiers in Psychiatry7 citations Open access
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Otherness and Stigma: the public understanding of what mental illness is moderates the association of continuum beliefs and social acceptance.
Vanessa C. Jürgensen, M. Göbel, Bruce G. Link, V. Buckwitz +2 more
2024SSM - Mental Health6 citations Open access
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Trauma assessment in outpatient psychotherapy and associations with psychotherapist’s gender, own traumatic events, length of work experience, and theoretical orientation
J. Lueders, C. Sander, Anya Leonhard, I. Schäfer +2 more
2022European Journal of Psychotraumatology6 citations Open access
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Testing the mixed-blessings model: What is the role of essentialism for stigmatizing attitudes towards schizophrenia?
Daniel Dittrich, Kristina Dernbach, S. Speerforck, S. Schindler +2 more
2021Current Psychology5 citations Open access
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[Life events related to the German reunification and their associations with psychosocial health in a sample of northeast Germany].
S. Hahm, L. Altweck, H. Franz, S. Schmidt +10 more
2023Zeitschrift für psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie4 citations
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Differential Diagnosis Between Alzheimer’s Disease-Related Depression and Pseudo-Dementia in Depression: A New Indication for Amyloid-β Imaging?
Jakob Leonhardi, H. Barthel, S. Speerforck, Jens Dietzel +8 more
2022Journal of Alzheimer's Disease4 citations
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Value-related attitudes towards mental health problems and help-seeking barriers: a sequential mixed-methods design investigating participants with reported depressive episodes in rural Northern Germany with and without treatment experience
K. Valerius, Linnéa von Eitzen, M. Göbel, Heike Ohlbrecht +5 more
2024BMC Psychiatry3 citations Open access
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Self-stigma in alcohol dependence scale: development and validity of the short form
Sophia Rieckhof, Anya Leonhard, Stephanie Schindler, Juliane Lüders +4 more
2024BMC Psychiatry3 citations Open access
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How socio-political change is associated with the number of individually reported negative life events: a population-based study using the German reunification 1989/1990 as an example
S. Hahm, L. Altweck, S. Schmidt, Toni Fleischer +10 more
2024Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health3 citations Open access
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Mental resources, mental health and sociodemography: a cluster analysis based on a representative population survey in a large German city
K. Khachatryan, D. Otten, M. Beutel, S. Speerforck +3 more
2023BMC Public Health3 citations Open access
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Do values and political attitudes affect help-seeking? Exploring reported help-seeking for mental health problems in a general population sample using a milieu framework
Jenny Spahlholz, E. Baumann, R. Müller-Hilmer, R. Hilmer +5 more
2023Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences3 citations Open access
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Leaving the stigma to the patients? Frequency of crisis experiences among mental health professionals in Berlin and Brandenburg and how they cope with it
S. von Peter, Stefan Stuetzle, A. Brieger, Angel Ponew +6 more
2023Journal of Mental Health3 citations
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Later-life depressive symptoms and anxiety attacks in displaced and nondisplaced populations
C. Ulke, Tobias Gfesser, T. Fleischer, L. Altweck +9 more
20213 citations Open access
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Next of kin involvement in mental health care services – a systematic participatory overview of evidence syntheses
Peggy Prien, Sebastian Bayer, Susanne Kappesser, Nora Dietrich +7 more
2026BMC Psychiatry2 citations Open access
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Institutionalisierte Kindesbetreuung im Vorschulalter und berichtete Misshandlungen: Eine Befragung in Ostdeutschland
C. Helmert, T. McLaren, Toni Fleischer, Christine Ulke +9 more
2024Psychiatrische Praxis2 citations Open access
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Trajectories of Satisfaction with Life Following a Collective, Critical Life Event and Their Relationship with Sociodemographic Factors and Internal Migration: The Example of the German Reunification 1989/90
S. Hahm, L. Altweck, S. Schmidt, Christine Ulke +7 more
2024Applied Research in Quality of Life1 citations Open access
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[Psychosis, Intoxication or Serotonin Syndrome? - A 20-Year Old Male with Ziprasidone und Sertraline].
S. Speerforck, Deborah Janowitz, G. Schomerus, H. Grabe
2017Psychiatrische Praxis1 citations
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Wirksamkeit eines Curriculums zur Reduktion stigmatisierender Einstellungen in Bezug auf Alkoholkonsumstörungen bei Medizinstudierenden
G. Bischof, A. Bischof, C. Sander, S. Speerforck +2 more
2026Suchttherapie0 citations
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Retrospectively appraised life changes since the German reunification and health: gender-differentiated indirect associations via psychosocial resources.
S. Hahm, L. Altweck, Johanna Bick, Annika Büll +8 more
2026Social Science & Medicine (1967)0 citations Open access
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“It has to be part of the clinic’s lived culture”- perspectives of next of kin on meaningful participation in psychiatric care: a participatory thematic analysis
Nora Dietrich, J. Kummetat, Silvia Bahl, Sebastian Bayer +7 more
2026BMC Psychiatry0 citations Open access
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Differentiating the potential of continuum beliefs to reduce the public stigma of schizophrenia, depression, and alcohol dependence: associations with illness recognition and treatment recommendations
S. Speerforck, Anya Leonhard, M. Angermeyer, G. Schomerus
2026Frontiers in Psychiatry0 citations Open access
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Autoritäre Haltungen, Bedrohungserleben und Stigma
J. Kummetat, G. Schomerus, S. Speerforck
2026Sozialpsychiatrische Informationen0 citations
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Explorative analyses on spatial differences in the desire for social distance toward people with mental illness in a diverging city
C. Helmert, S. Speerforck, Toni Fleischer, Danielle Otten +14 more
2023Frontiers in Public Health0 citations Open access
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