About
Professor Peer Briken is Director of the Institute for Sex Research and Forensic Psychiatry in Hamburg since 2010. The institute has an outpatient clinic for sexual offenders and provides court reports on sexual offenders. Peer Briken’s main research activities are: pharmacological and psychotherapeutic treatment of sexual offenders, sexual homicide, hypersexuality, juvenile sexual offenders and delinquency. He published the first German studies on pharmacological treatment of paraphilic patients with GnRH agonists and SSRI. He is reviewer for international journals, member of Editorial Board of the Open Forensic Science Journal, Sex Offender Treatment and Editor of the German Journal of Sex Research. He is also a member of several societies. Since 2010, he was appointed the president of the German Society of Sex Research. Since 2012 he is Member of the Correctional Services Advisory and Accreditation Panel, National Offender Management Service, Ministry of Justice, UK. Since 2012 he is advisor to the DSM-5 Development Process.
Prof. Dr. med. Peer Briken, specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy, forensic psychiatry, sexual medicine (DGfS, FECSM); Professor for sexual research and forensic psychiatry and director of the institute of the same name at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf. 1st Chairman of the German Society for Sexual Research and Vice President of the International Association for the Treatment of Sexual Offenders.
Skills & Expertise
Psychological Assessment
Clinical Assessment
treatment
DSM Technology
Psychological Testing
DSM-5 Development
Psychopathology
Mental Illness
Psychotherapeutic Processes
Personality Assessment
Counseling
Research Interests
Psychopathology
Sexologist
Sex Research
Forensic Psychiatry
Sexual Medicine
Sexual Offender Treatment
Hypersexuality Research
Juvenile Delinquency
Pharmacological Treatment
DSM-5 Advisory
Psychotherapy in Sexual Disorders
Court Report Analysis
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Publications (227)
Background and aims
Compulsive sexual behavior disorder (CSBD) which includes problematic pornography use (PPU) is a clinically relevant syndrome that has been included in the ICD-11 as impulse contr...
Trans people suffer from increased rates of depression and suicidality even after gender-affirming medical interventions. The present study aims to examine the prevalence of childhood adversities in p...
Background: The context in which individuals are exposed to child sexual abuse (CSA) and reactions to the disclosure of such abuse experiences play a major role in post-traumatic mental health. Female...
Background
The diagnosis of paraphilic disorder is a complicated clinical judgment based on the integration of information from multiple dimensions to arrive at a categorical (present/absent) conclus...
Introduction: Transgender health care is delivered in both centralized (by one interdisciplinary institution) and decentralized settings (by different medical institutions spread over several location...
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