About the Authors

Anna Buchheim

anna.buchheim@uibk.ac.at

Affiliation Institute of Psychology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

Roberto Viviani

Affiliations Institute of Psychology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy III, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Henrik Kessler

Affiliations Hanse Institute for Advanced Study, Delmenhorst, Germany, Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany, Department of Psychiatry, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Horst Kächele

Affiliations Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany, International Psychoanalytic University, Berlin, Germany

Manfred Cierpka

Affiliation Institute of Psychosomatic Cooperation Research and Family Therapy, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Gerhard Roth

Affiliation Brain Research Institute, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

Carol George

Affiliation Department of Psychology, Mills College, Oakland, California, United States of America

Otto F. Kernberg

Affiliation Weill Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Georg Bruns

Affiliation University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

Svenja Taubner

Affiliations Department of Psychology, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany, International Psychoanalytic University, Berlin, Germany, Hanse Institute for Advanced Study, Delmenhorst, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AB H. Kessler H. Kächele MC GR ST. Performed the experiments: AB H. Kessler ST. Analyzed the data: AB RV ST CG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: H. Kessler MC GR OK GB. Wrote the paper: RV AB ST.