Research Focus & Expertise

  • Psychodynamic and analytic psychotherapy
  • Operationalized psychodynamic diagnosis
  • Personality function
  • Network analyses

Publications

Juen, F., Vierl, L., Hörz-Sagstetter, S. (2024). Patientencharakteristika an einer psychodynamisch orientierten Aus- und Weiterbildungsambulanz. Zeitschrift für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie. 70(3), 228-243. doi:10.13109/zptm.2024.70.3.228

Vierl, L. & Hörz-Sagstetter, S. (2024). Wie hängen psychodynamische Konstrukte mit Psychopathologie zusammen? Implikationen für die Therapieplanung. Ärztliche Psychotherapie. 3, 151-157. doi: 10.21706/aep-19-3-151

Tschentscher, N., Tafelmaier, J.C., Woll, C.F.J., Pogarell, O., Maywald, M., Vierl, L., Breitenstein, K. & Karch, S. (2024). The Clinical Impact of Real-Time fMRI Neurofeedback on Emotion Regulation: A Systematic Review. Brain Sciences. 14(7), 1-28. doi:10.3390/brainsci14070700

Vierl, L., Hörz-Sagstetter, S., Benecke, C., Spitzer, C., & Juen, F. (2024). All the same? Different measures of personality functioning are similar but distinct. A comparative study from a psychodynamic perspective using exploratory graph analysis. Journal of personality assessment. 106(3), 314-327. doi:10.1080/00223891.2023.2251150

Vierl, L., Wülfing, P., Juen, F., Hörz-Sagstetter, S., Spitzer, C., & Benecke, C. (2024). Unravelling inter-relations within and between psychodynamic constructs and psychopathology using network analysis. Personality and Mental Health, 1–16. doi: 10.1002/pmh.1628 [PDF]

Vierl, L., Von Bremen, C., Hagmayer, Y., Benecke, C., & Sell, C. (2023). How are psychodynamic conflicts associated with personality functioning? A network analysis. Frontiers in Psychology. 15:1152150. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1152150

Vierl, L., Juen, F., Benecke, C. & Hörz-Sagstetter, S. (2023). Exploring the associations between psychodynamic constructs and psychopathology: a network approach. Personality and mental health. 17(1), 40-54. doi:10.1002/pmh.1559

Schlegl, S., Vierl, L., Kolar, D., Dittmer, N., Meule, A. & Voderholzer, U. (2022) Validation of the German version of the Compulsive Exercise Test in patients with eating disorders. International Journal of Eating Disorders. 55(4), 494-504. doi:10.1002/eat.23694

Schlegl, S., Smith, K., Vierl, L., Crosby, R. D., Moessner, M., Neumayr, C., Naab, S., & Voderholzer, U. (2021). Using network analysis to compare diagnosis and age-specific symptom networks in eating disorders. International Journal of Eating Disorders. 54(8), 1463-1476. doi:10.1002/eat.23523

Academic Background

Since 04/2024
Post-Doc at the Chair of Clinical Psychology and Psychological Treatment, LMU Munich
2021 – 2024
Clinical psychologist in the Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychophysiology, LMU Clinic
2021 – 2024
Doctorate at the University of Kassel;
Dissertation on the topic: "Operationalized psychodynamic diagnosis - investigation of the relationships between psychodynamic constructs using network analysis"; grade: summa cum laude
2020-2021
Psychologist, Psychiatry & Psychosomatics, kbo Isar-Amper-Klinikum Haar
Since 2020
Clinical Training in psychodynamic and analytic psychotherapy (PDT), Academy for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Munich e.V.
2016-2021
Research assistant, Schön Klinik Roseneck
2017-2019
Study of Clinical Psychology & Cognitive Neuroscience (M.Sc.), LMU Munich
2015-2016
ERASMUS, University of Galway, Irland
2013-2017
Study of Psychology (B.Sc.), LMU Munich

Scholarships & Awards

  • German Psychodynamics Award 2024 (Junior category)
  • Wilhelm Bitter Research Award 2022 (best paper category Doc)
  • Scholarship holder of the Ebner Foundation (2018-2019)
  • Funded by the Adam Wilhelm Klein Foundation (2018-2019)
  • Oskar Karl Forster Scholarship (2017)