Thilo Friehs (M.Sc.)
Office hours
by agreement
Contact
+49 6341 280-35658
thilo.friehs[at]rptu.de
Address
Room 3.1.04 (3rd floor)
Ostbahnstraße 10
76829 Landau
Education
| Since 2019 | Postgraduate training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Weiterbildungsstudiengang in Psychologischer Psychotherapie (WiPP), University Outpatient Clinic for Psychotherapy, Landau, Germany |
| Since 2019 | Ph.D. student Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Julia Glombiewski, Dr. Tobias Kube |
| 2017 – 2018 | Master of Science in Psychology (Grade: excellent, 0.9) Philipps-University of Marburg, Germany Thesis: “Components of placebo effects in sadness” (Grade: very good, 1.0) Supervisors: Dr. Tobias Kube, Prof. Dr. Winfried Rief |
| 2012-2017 | Bachelor of Science in Psychology (Grade: good, 1.6) Philipps-University of Marburg, Germany Thesis: “Development and psychometric validation of a German version of the Utrecht grief rumination scale (UGRS-D)” (Grade: very good, 1.0) Supervisors: Dr. Bettina Döring, Prof. Dr. Winfried Rief |
| 2011 | Allgemeine Hochschulreife [German higher education entrance qualification] (Grade: very good, 1.3) Gottfried-Arnold Gymnasium, Perleberg, Germany |
Academic experience
| Since 2019 | Research fellow Pain and Psychotherapy Research Lab (Prof. Dr. Julia Glombiewski), Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany |
| 2018 | Student research assistant Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Philipps-University of Marburg, Germany |
| 2014 | Student research assistant Department of Methodology, Philipps-University of Marburg, Germany |
Therapeutic experience
| Since 2020 | Psychotherapist in Training University Outpatient Clinic for Psychotherapy, WiPP, Landau, Germany |
| 2019 – 2020 | Psychotherapist in Training Pfalzklinikum for Psychiatry and Neurology, Klingenmünster, Germany |
| 2017 | Psychotherapeutic internship Vitos Clinic for psychiatry and psychotherapy, Marburg, Germany |
| 2016 | Psychotherapeutic internship Helios Rehabilitation center for psychosomatic medicine, psychotherapy, and psychiatric rehabilitation, Bad Berleburg, Germany |
Teaching experience
| 2019 – 2020 | Basic competences of Psychology: Group therapy and management Undergraduate course Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany |
| 2018 | Evaluation Undergraduate course as a guest lecturer Department of Methodology, Philipps-University of Marburg, Germany |
| 2015 – 2018 | Statistics Undergraduate course as a student teaching assistant Department of Methodology, Philipps-University of Marburg, Germany |
| 2016 – 2017 | Basic competences of Psychotherapy: Therapeutic techniques of CBT Undergraduate course as a student research assistant Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Philipps-University of Marburg, Germany |
International experience
| 2015 | Study exchange Visiting student at the University of Limerick, Ireland Funding: Erasmus+ program of the European Union |
| 2011 – 2012 | Travel abroad “Work and Travel” in New Zealand |
Awards
| 2020 | Award for excellent teaching Department of Psychology, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany |
Funding
| 2019 | Research Fund for the participation at the 2nd official SIPS conference on placebo studies 550€, Förderung des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany |
Research interests
Placebo effects and mechanisms
Usability of placebo effects in pharmacological treatments
Processes and mechanisms of psychotherapy
Behavioral Medicine
Journal articles (peer reviewed)
2022
Friehs, T., & Kube, T. (2022). Erwartungen als Kernmechanismus des Placeboeffekts: Implikationen
für die psychotherapeutische Praxis [Expectations as a core mechanism of the placebo effect:
implications for the psychotherapeutic practice]. Psychotherapeut.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00278-022-00591-0
Friehs, T., Rief, W., Glombiewski, J. A., Haas, J., & Kube, T. (2022). Deceptive and non-deceptive
placebos to reduce sadness: A five-armed experimental study. Journal of Affective Disorders
Reports, 100349. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadr.2022.100349
Kube, T., Friehs, T., Glombiewski, J. A., & Gollwitzer, M. (2022). Depression is not related to deficits in
emotional reasoning skills. Personality and Individual Differences, 196, 111728.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2022.111728
2020
Emmerich, A. C., Friehs, T., Crombez, G., & Glombiewski, J. A. (2020). Self‐compassion predicting
pain, depression and anger in people suffering from chronic pain: A prospective study.
European Journal of Pain, ejp.1638. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejp.1638
2018
Doering, B. K., Barke, A., Friehs, T., & Eisma, M. C. (2018). Assessment of grief-related rumination:
Validation of the German version of the Utrecht grief rumination scale (UGRS). BMC
Psychiatry, 18(1), 43. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-018-1630-1
Conference contributions
Friehs, T. (2022). Behandlungserwartungen verändern – eine Open-label Placebostudie im
Hitzeschmerzparadigma [Changing treatment expectations - an open-label placebo study
using the heat pain paradigm]. Presentation at the 1. Deutscher Psychotherapiekongress
(Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie, DGPs) [1st German congress on Psychotherapy
(German Psychological Society)], Berlin, Germany.
Friehs, T., Kube, T. (2021). How to build expectations: A study comparing deceptive and open-label
placebo in sadness. Presentation at the 3rd International Conference of the Society for
Interdisciplinary Placebo Studies (SIPS), Baltimore, USA (online conference).
Friehs, T., Rief, W., Glombiewski, J. A., Haas, J., Kube, T. (2021). Placebos mit und ohne Täuschung –
ein fünfarmiges Experiment bei Traurigkeit [Placebos with and without deception - a five-
armed experiment on sadness]. Presentation at the 38. Symposium der Fachgruppe Klinische
Psychologie und Psychotherapie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs) [38th
Symposium of the Division of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy of the German
Psychological Society], Mannheim, Germany (online conference).
Friehs, T., Rief, W., Glombiewski, J. A., Haas, J., Kube, T. (2019). How to administer deceptive and
open-label placebos? A five-armed experimental study on sadness. Poster presentation at
the 2nd Official SIPS conference on Placebo Studies (Society for Interdisciplinary Placebo
Studies, SIPS), Leiden, Netherlands.
Friehs, T., Rief, W., Glombiewski, J. A., Haas, J., Kube, T. (2019). Wie kann die Wirkung verdeckter und
offener Placebos optimiert werden? – Erkenntnisse eines fünfarmigen Experiments bei
Traurigkeit [How can the effects of deceptive and non-deceptive placebos be optimized? -
Findings from a five-arm experiment on sadness]. Poster presentation at the 37. Symposium
der Fachgruppe Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs) [37th Symposium of the Division of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy
of the German Psychological Society], Erlangen, Germany.