Anke Ehlers

Anke Ehlers
FBA FMedSci
Born (1957-01-11) 11 January 1957 (age 67)
Kiel, West Germany
SpouseDavid M. Clark
Academic background
Alma mater
Academic work
DisciplinePsychologist
Sub-disciplinePost-traumatic stress disorder
Institutions

Anke Ehlers FBA FMedSci (born 11 January 1957) is a German psychologist and expert in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).[1] She is a Fellow of the major science academies of the UK and Germany.

She currently works at the University of Oxford as Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Experimental Psychopathology.[2]

With husband David M. Clark, she developed a cognitive model for PTSD. Therapy she and others based on that model is strongly recommended for treating PTSD by the American Psychological Association.[3] Anke's research has shown that it is a common problem among emergency medical workers,[4] and that a commonly used therapy for PTSD, psychological debriefing, has little provable therapeutic value.[5]

  1. ^ "Humans 'have six-hour window' to erase memories of fear". BBC News. 10 December 2009.
  2. ^ Faculty listing Archived December 20, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Oxford Neuroscience, retrieved 2013-01-22.
  3. ^ "Cognitive Therapy (CT)". American Psychological Association. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
  4. ^ "Health Ambulance workers 'traumatised by job'", BBC News, 10 September 1999.
  5. ^ "Report Finds 'No Convincing Evidence' That Psychological Debriefing Reduces Incidence Of PTSD", ScienceDaily, 19 September 2003.