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Ass.-Prof.ⁱⁿ Dr.ⁱⁿ  Brigitte Lueger-Schuster, Institut für Klinische, Biologische und Differentielle Psychologie, Studienprogrammleiterin Psychologie, stv. Leiterin des StudienServiceCenters Psychologie

Ass. Prof. Brigitte Lueger-Schuster, Ass. Prof. Dr. phil, Clinicial and Health Psychologist
Since 1992 Brigitte Lueger-Schuster has conducted research and teaching in the field of Clinical Psychology, focusing on traumatic stress, psychotrauma and human rights. Currently she is conducting a study on childhood trauma from World War II and its actual impact on senior citizens in Austria. Since 2008 she has been founding member of the research platform on “Human Rights in the European Context”. She is the author of a notable number of articles in the field of traumatic stress, editor and author of several books and has organized a number of international and national conferences in the field of psychotrauma and human rights.  In correspondence to her academic career she has developed the field of traumatic stress overall in Austria, focusing on two topics: traumatic stress in disaster situations, as well as assessment and treatment of torture survivors. She has served as a Board Member for the German Speaking and the European Society of Traumatic Stress and is the president-elect of the latter.

Editorial boards:

• Zeitschrift für Trauma und Gewalt (2008 ongoing)
• Spezial Edition: Kindheit und Entwicklung, 2008

Publikationen (Auswahl)

• Lueger-Schuster, B.(2010): Supporting interventions after exposure to torture. Torture, 20 (1), pp. 32-44.
• Lueger-Schuster, B. (2010): Vom Girlie zur Intellektuellen. Reifung durch Traumatisierung. In: Lughofer, J. G. (Hg.): Im Prisma – Bertha von Suttner „Die Waffen nieder“. Edition Art Science, Wien. S. 135 - 156.
• Lueger-Schuster, B.(2009): Rehabilitation traumatisierter Kinder und Jugendlicher. In: H. Bielefeldt et al. (Eds.): Jahrbuch Menschenrechte 2010. Kinder und Jugendliche. Wien: Böhlau. pp. 94 – 109.
König, D./Lueger-Schuster, B./Kryspin-Exner, I. (2008): Computer-assisted cognitive training as a trauma-unspecific intervention for posttraumatic stress disorder. International Journal of Psychology, 43 (3/4), S. 279.
• Sailer, U./Robinson, S./Fischmeister, F. P. S./König, D./Oppenauer, C./Lueger-Schuster, B./Moser, E./Kryspin-Exner, I./Bauer, H. (2008): Altered reward processing in the nucleus accumbens and mesial prefrontal cortex of patients with posttraumatic stress disorder. Neuropsychologia, 46 (11), pp. 2836–2844.
• Lueger-Schuster, B./Krüsmann, M./ Purtscher, K. (Eds.) (2006): Psychosoziale Hilfe bei Katastrophen und komplexen Schadenslagen – lessons learned. Wien: Springer.