Kuchinke, Lars https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8248-1167
Mattheß, Janna https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9111-9530
Eckert, Melanie https://orcid.org/0009-0002-8127-9180
Richter, Katharina
Koch, Gabriele https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4420-5652
Bindt, Carola https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6516-540X
Schweitzer, Julia
Krauskopf, Karsten https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8040-5969
Rummel-Kluge, Christine https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4857-8170
Theil, Mona Katharina
Galeris, Mirijam-Griseldis https://orcid.org/0009-0004-1524-6043
Reinhold, Thomas https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5169-7029
Vienhues, Petra
Berghöfer, Anne https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7897-6500
Roll, Stephanie https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1191-3289
Keil, Thomas https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9108-3360
Schlensog-Schuster, Franziska https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8033-6537
Klitzing, Kai von https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3010-5121
Ludwig-Körner, Christiane https://orcid.org/0009-0002-5466-9976
Clinical trials referenced in this document:
Documents that mention this clinical trial
Efficacy of parent-infant psychotherapy with mothers with postpartum mental disorder: results from a randomized controlled trial
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13034-025-01013-0
Past attachment experiences, the potential link of mentalization and the transmission of behavior to the child by mothers with mental health problems: cross-sectional analysis of a clinical sample
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-023-02291-9
Funding for this research was provided by:
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Article History
Received: 30 July 2025
Accepted: 9 December 2025
First Online: 4 January 2026
Declarations
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: Ethical approval was granted by the Ethics Committees of the IPU Berlin (2018-16), the Medical Faculty of Leipzig University (413/18-lk) and the Hamburg Medical Association (MC-134/19). Mother-child dyads were invited to take part in the study only after they had given their informed consent (if applicable from both legal guardians).
: “Not applicable”.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The recruitment, treatment and assessments were aggravated by the two pandemic-related lockdowns in Germany (March 2020 to May 2020; October 2020 to January 2021) and pandemic-related hygiene measures (e.g. constant wearing of masks during psychotherapy and restrictions for number of participants in the same room). The mask obligatory mainly stopped in 2022.