Portrait Sebastian Euler

Sebastian Euler
PD Dr. med. Senior Physician, Vice Director of Department, Department of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine

Specialties

  • Diagnosis and treatment of personality disorders
  • Psychosomatic medicine, esp. Somatoform disorders, eating disorders, psycho-oncology and psycho-cardiology
  • Mentalization-based therapy

Contact

Tel. +41 44 255 97 00
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Other competencies

  • Group psychotherapy
  • Team and case supervision
  • Medical communication

Career History

2026 Adjunct Professor
since 2021 Deputy Director, Department of Consultation Psychiatry and Psychosomatics, University Hospital of Zurich
2020 Habilitation, University of Zurich
2020 Specialization in Consultation and Liaison Psychiatry (SSCLPP)
since 2019 Certified MBT Trainer and AFNCCF Supervisor
since 2018 Senior Physician, Department of Consultation Psychiatry and Psychosomatics, University Hospital of Zurich
2017-2018 Senior Research Fellow University College of London (UCL), Prof. Peter Fonagy
2016 Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy EFPP
2015 CAS Leadership BFH
2014 Specialization in Psychosomatic and Psychosocial Medicine (SAPPM)
2014 Group psychotherapy and group analysis D3G
2010-2018 Attending Physician, University Psychiatric Clinics (UPK) Basel, Center for Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy
2010-2018 Psychiatric-psychosomatic consultant at Reha Rheinfelden
2010 Specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy FMH
2009-2010 Resident Reha Rheinfelden
2005-2009 Resident / Vice Attending Physician, University Psychiatric Clinics (UPK) Basel
2004 Ph.D., Center for Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, JLU Giessen (Germany)
2003-2005 Resident at the Cantonal Psychiatric Clinic Wil
2000-2003 Research Employee of the Clinic for Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, JLU Giessen (D)

Board memberships

  • Swiss Society for Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and Psychosomatics (SSCLPP), Chair of the Continuing Education Committee
  • European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy EFPP. German-Speaking Switzerland Section
  • MBT D-A-CH, First Deputy Chairman Chairman

Memberships

  • Swiss Academy for Psychosomatic and Psychosocial Medicine SAPPM
  • Society of Psychotherapy Research SPR
  • International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders ISSPD
  • European Society for the Study of Personality Disorders ESSPD
  • German Society for Group Psychotherapy and Group Analysis D3G
  • German Society for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Neurology DGPPN
  • Swiss Medical Association FMH
  • Swiss Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy SGPP

Key Research Areas

  • Psychopathology and predictors of the course of therapy for personality disorders
  • Personality factors and mentalization in psychosomatics
  • Influence of psychosocial factors in somatic medicine

Book Publications

  • Zeeck, A., and Euler, S.: Mentalization in Eating Disorders. Stuttgart: Klett Cotta. 2023
  • Euler S: Mentalizing in personality disorders. Stuttgart: Klett Cotta. 2021
  • Euler S. & Walter M.: Mentalization-based psychotherapy (MBT). Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2nd edition, 2020
  • Walter M, Sollberger D & Euler S: Addiction and personality disorders. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2nd edition, 2022

Editorships

  • Co-editorship: Psychodynamic Psychotherapy PDP, Stuttgart: Schattauer.
  • Co-editors: *Psychotherapy*, Berlin: Springer

Publications

PubMed

Prizes

  • 2017 Hamburg Prize for Personality Disorders
  • 2025 Heigl Prize