Prof. Dr. phil. Jürgen Hoyer

Research focus

Social anxiety disorder
Generalized anxiety disorder
Depressive disorders
Sexual disorders
Psychotherapy research

Curriculum Vitae

	Hoyer, Juergen, Dipl. Psych., PhD, Professor of Psychology
Official position	Chair of Behavioral Psychology, Head of TU Dresden Outpatient Clinic for Psychotherapy
Institution	TU Dresden, Faculty of Psychology, Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy
Business address	Hohe Str. 53, D-01187 Dresden

Academic education and degrees

1977-1984	Diploma in Psychology, University of Goettingen, Germany
1992	PhD in psychology (Dr. phil) at Goethe University Frankfurt
1999	Postdoctoral lecture qualification (venia legendi) in Psychology, Goethe University Frankfurt

Professional career

1984-1987	Clinical psychologist at the Niedersächsisches Landeskrankenhaus Moringen (Forensic Psychiatric Hospital)
1987-1992	Research Assistant, Goethe University Frankfurt
1992-1999	Assistant Professor, Goethe University Frankfurt
1999-2001	Assistant Professor („Oberassistent“), Technische Universität Dresden
2001-2002	Professor at Hochschule Magdeburg-Stendal (Germany)
2002-2012	Associate Professor and head of outpatient clinic, Technische Universität Dresden
2013-present	Full Professor of Behavioral Psychotherapy and head of outpatient clinic, Technische Universität Dresden

Honors, awards and positions

2006	“Schönstes Lehrbuch 2006“, Stiftung Buchkunst (along with H.-U. Wittchen)
2015	Heigl-Prize (Universität Düsseldorf ) for the „Sophonet research network“ (Co-Founder: J. Hoyer)
2017	Scientific Paper Award 2017 of the American Psychoanalytic Association (along with C. Steiner, S. Rabung, T. Munder, F. Leichsenring)
Since 2013	Speaker of a Germany-wide research network of university-bound outpatient clinics (Forschungsverbund Koordination der Datenerhebung und -auswertung an Forschungs-, Lehr- und Ausbildungsambulanzen für Psychotherapie KODAP

Current journal editorial positions

Since 2013	Advisory editor, Psychotherapy research
Since 2015	Co-editor and editor (2019/2020) Zeitschrift für Sexualforschung
Editorial board	Diagnostica, Psychotherapie im Dialog

10 most important peer-reviewed papers

(10 out of 207, Scopus H-index: 34)

Hoyer J, Becker ES, Margraf J. Generalized anxiety disorder and clinical worry episodes in young women. Psychological Medicine. 2002;32:1227-37.

Hoyer J, Becker ES, Roth WT. Characteristics of worry in GAD patients, social phobics, and controls. Depression and Anxiety. 2001;13:89-96.

Wittchen H-U, Kessler RC, Beesdo K, Krause P, Höfler M, Hoyer J. Generalized anxiety and depression in primary care: Prevalence, recognition and management. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. 2002;63:24-34.

Hoyer J, Eifert GH, Einsle F, Zimmermann K, Krauss S et al. Heart-focused anxiety before and after cardiac surgery. Journal of Psychosomatic Research. 2008;64:291-7.

Hoyer J, Beesdo K, Gloster AT, Runge J, Höfler M, Becker ES. Worry exposure versus applied relaxation in the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. 2009;78:106-15.

Hoyer J, Bräuer D, Crawcour S, Klumbies E, Kirschbaum C. Depersonalisation/derealisation during acute social stress in social phobia. Journal of Anxiety Disorders. 2013;27:178-87.

Hoyer J, Wiltink J, Hiller W, Leibing E, Miller R et al. Baseline patient characteristics predicting outcome and attrition in cognitive therapy for social phobia: Results from a large multicentre trial. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy. 2016;23:35-46.

Hoyer J, Čolić J, Pittig A, Crawcour S, Moeser M et al. Manualized cognitive therapy versus cognitive-behavioral treatment-as-usual for social anxiety disorder in routine practice: A cluster-randomized controlled trial. Behaviour Research and Therapy. 2017;95:87-98.

Hoyer J, Čolić J, Grübler G, Gloster AT. Valued living before and after CBT. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy. 2020;50; 37-45.

Hoyer J, Hoefler M, Wuellhorst V. Activity and subsequent depression levels: a causal analysis of behavioural activation group treatment with weekly assessments over 8 weeks. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy. 2020;27(3):330-6.