Contributors

Contributor Biography

Astrid Grossert is Psychologist, postgraduate integrative body Psychotherapist (IBP) at the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Medical Oncology, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland. Body integrity and integrity disturbances from the psychological & somatic perspective in patients are of her main interest. As PHD student she was enrolled in the developing, testing and integrating process of a web-based stress-management program for newly diagnosed cancer patients to enhance patient’s capability for coping. Gunther Meinlschmidt is Head of Research at the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland; Senior Lecturer at the Department of Psychology, University of Basel; and Professor for Clinical Psychology, Division of Clinical Psychology and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, International Psychoanalytic University, Berlin, Germany. His research focuses on psychotherapy and intervention science with children, adolescents, and adults, health psychology, medical psychology, psychobiology, and psychosomatics. Rainer Schäfert is Chair of the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine at the University Hospital and University of Basel, Switzerland. He has a broad psychotherapeutic qualification, including Psychodynamic and Body Psychotherapy, Group analysis, conducting of Balint groups, psychotraumatology, Gestalt therapy, as well as medical hypnosis / gut-directed hypnotherapy. Regarding the content of his research, amongst others, he has been concerned with bodily and mental wellbeing and improvement of quality of life, primarily in patients with persistent somatic symptoms.