Name: Meinrad Paul PERREZ

Home address: 3, Chemin du Gerbey CH - 1752 Villars-sur-Glâne / Switzerland

Date of Birth: 24.3.1944 in Dagmersellen / Switzerland

Current position: Professor of Clinical Psychology

Department of Psychology

University of Fribourg

Rue de Faucigny 2

CH - 1700 Fribourg / Switzerland

Education

College:
Swiss Federal Maturity 1964 (Matura A)
University:

Paris: 1964/65 (Philosophy, Anthropology)

Innsbruck: 1965/68 (Philosophy, Psychology)

Salzburg: 1968/71 (Psychology, Philosophy, Educational Sciences)

Awarded Dr. phil.:

University of Salzburg 1971

Professional History

Univ.-Assistant:
1971-1973

Assistant at the Department of Psychology, University of Salzburg / Austria

Univ.-Professor:
1973-1975

Professor for Psychology at the Free University of Berlin
1975

Invitation from the "Faculty of philosophy" of the University of Salzburg to assume the chair for educational sciences
1975-1981

Professor at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland), Chair for Educational Sciences
1980

Invitation from the “Faculty natural sciences” of the university of Salzburg to assume the chair for clinical psychology
Since 1981

Professor at the University of Fribourg, Chair for Clinical Psychology
1982-1983

Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Fribourg
various dates

1983/84, 1987/89, 1995/96, 1998/99, 2004/04 and 2007/08: Director of the Department of Psychology, University of Fribourg
1986-1988

Committee-member of the section "Clinical Psychology" of the German Psychological Association
1987-1989

President of the Swiss Psychological Society
1990

Visiting Professor as “Fellow of the British Academy”, at the Center for Occupational and Health Psychology, University of Streatheclyde, Glasgow
1993-1999

Director of the Institute for Family Research at the University of Fribourg
1996-1998

Vice President of the German Society of Psychology (DGPs)
Since 1998

Member of the “Scientific Advisory Board of the V.M. Bekhterev Psychoneurological Research Institute”, St. Petersburg
2001

Visiting professor at the Child Study Center, New York University
2001-2010

Member of the "Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation"
Since 2002

Member of the scientific committee of the European Society on Family Relations (ESFR)
2004-2010

President of the "Division of Humanities and Social Sciences" of the Swiss National Science Foundation
2008-2010

Vice-president of the "Swiss National Science Foundation"
Since 2010 President of the Institute Council of the Institute for Family Research and Counseling

Psychotherapy training

Psychotherapist FSP (cognitive-behavioral orientation)

Membership in societies

Swiss Psychological Society (SGP/SSP)
German Society of Psychology (DGPs)
Swiss Society for Behavior Therapy
American Psychological Association (foreign affiliate)
International Academy of Family Psychology
Member of the scientific committee of the European Society on Family Relations (ESFR)
Member of the scientific committee of the International Association of Training and Research in Family Education (AIFREF)

Awards

Fellow of the British Academy of Science
Honorary member of the “Scientific Advisory Board of the V.M. Bekhterev Psychoneurological Research Institute”, St. Petersburg
Life-long honorary member of the executive board of the European Society on Family Relations

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