Publications

Peer Reviewed

  1. Krakau, L., Silk, J. S., Do, Q., James, K., Wright, A. G., Ladouceur, C. D., & Kaurin, A. (accepted, 2025). Prospective Effects of Caregiver-Child Interaction on Developmental Manifestations of Personality Pathology During Adolescence. Development and Psychopathology.
  2. Klein, E.M., Zeeck, A., Kruse, J., Hilbert, A., Brähler, E. & Krakau, L. (accepted, 2024). Körpererleben und Essstörungspsychopathologie: Die Rolle struktureller Beeinträchtigungen in einer repräsentativen Bevölkerungsstichprobe. Zeitschrift für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie.
  3. Krakau, L., Ernst, M., Hautzinger, M., Beutel, M. E., & Leuzinger-Bohleber, M. (2024). Childhood trauma and differential response to long-term psychoanalytic versus cognitive–behavioural therapy for chronic depression in adults. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2024.112
  4. Kampling, H., Riedl, D., Hettich, N., Lampe, A., Nolte, T., Zara, S., Ernst, M., Brähler, E., Sachser, C., Fegert, J. M., Gingelmaier, S., Fonagy, P., Krakau, L., & Kruse, J. (2024). To trust or not to trust in the thrall of the COVID-19 pandemic: Conspiracy endorsement and the role of adverse childhood experiences, epistemic trust, and personality functioning. Social Science & Medicine, 341, 116526. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116526
  5. Jankowsky, K., Krakau, L., Schroeders, U., Zwerenz, R., & Beutel, M. E. (2023). Predicting treatment response using machine learning: A registered report. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, bjc.12452. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjc.12452
  6. Krakau, L., Leuzinger-Bohleber, M., Brähler, E., Schmidt, P., Rost, F., Huber, D., Klug, G., Löffler-Stastka, H., Rössler-Schülein, H., Leichsenring, F., Salzer, S., Brockmann, J., Jakobsen, T., Ernst, M., & Beutel, M. E. (2023). Protocol: Efficacy of high-intensity versus low-intensity psychoanalytically oriented long-term treatments and determinants of outcome: Individual participant data Meta-analysis of Long-term Analytic treatment Studies (MeLAS). BMJ Open, 13(7), e069332. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-069332
  7. Rückert, K. K., Ernst, M., Zwerenz, R., Michal, M., Beutel, M. E., & Krakau, L. (2023). Der Zusammenhang struktureller und symptomatischer Veränderung im Rahmen multimodaler psychodynamischer Behandlungen [The relationship of functional and symptomatic changes after multimodal psychodynamic treatment]. Zeitschrift für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie, 69(3), 261–277. https://doi.org/10.13109/zptm.2023.69.3.261
  8. Reinwarth, A. C., Ernst, M., Krakau, L., Brähler, E., & Beutel, M. E. (2023). Screening for loneliness in representative population samples: Validation of a single-item measure. PLOS ONE, 18(3), e0279701. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279701
  9. Zara, S., Brähler, E., Sachser, C., Fegert, J. M., Häuser, W., Krakau, L., Kampling, H., & Kruse, J. (2023). Associations of different types of child maltreatment and diabetes in adulthood – the mediating effect of personality functioning: Findings from a population-based representative German sample. Annals of Epidemiology, 78, 47–53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annepidem.2022.12.004
  10. Beutel, M. E., Krakau, L., Kaufhold, J., Bahrke, U., Grabhorn, A., Hautzinger, M., Fiedler, G., Kallenbach‐Kaminski, L., Ernst, M., Rüger, B., & Leuzinger‐Bohleber, M. (2022). Recovery from chronic depression and structural change: 5‐year outcomes after psychoanalytic and cognitive‐behavioural long‐term treatments (LAC depression study). Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, cpp.2793. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpp.2793
  11. Ernst, M., Beutel, M. E., Zwerenz, R., & Krakau, L. (2022). Seeing the past in a new light: Change in reports of childhood abuse and neglect before and after inpatient psychotherapy and its relevance for change in depression symptoms. Psychotherapy Research, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2022.2088313
  12. Hettich, N., Beutel, M. E., Krakau, L., & Braehler, E. (2022). Quality of Life: Updated Psychometric Properties and New Norm Values in a Representative German Sample Focusing Socioeconomics and Mental Health. International Journal of Public Health, 67, 1605188. https://doi.org/10.3389/ijph.2022.1605188
  13. Kampling, H., Kruse, J., Lampe, A., Nolte, T., Hettich, N., Brähler, E., Sachser, C., Fegert, J. M., Gingelmaier, S., Fonagy, P., Krakau, L., Zara, S., & Riedl, D. (2022). Epistemic trust and personality functioning mediate the association between adverse childhood experiences and posttraumatic stress disorder and complex posttraumatic stress disorder in adulthood. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13, 919191. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.919191
  14. Kasinger, C., Tibubos, A. N., Brähler, E., Herschbach, P., Henrich, G., & Krakau, L. (2022). Unterschiede in der Zufriedenheit verschiedener Lebensbereiche zwischen Ost- und Westdeutschen in den Jahren 1991, 2006 und 2020 [Differences in Area Specific Life Satisfaction Between East and West Germans in the Years 1991, 2006 and 2020]. PPmP - Psychotherapie · Psychosomatik · Medizinische Psychologie, 72(12), 524–532. https://doi.org/10.1055/a-1938-8013
  15. Wicke, F. S., Krakau, L., Löwe, B., Beutel, M. E., & Brähler, E. (2022). Update of the standardization of the Patient Health Questionnaire-4 (PHQ-4) in the general population. Journal of Affective Disorders, S0165032722007133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2022.06.054
  16. Wicke, F. S., Schmidt, P., Petersen, J., Ernst, M., Krakau, L., Brähler, E., Tibubos, A. N., Otten, D., Reiner, I., Michal, M., Schulz, A., Münzel, T., Wild, P. S., König, J., Lackner, K. J., Pfeiffer, N., & Beutel, M. E. (2022). Depression predicts equivalized income five years later, but not vice versa: Results from the prospective Gutenberg Health Study. Social Science & Medicine, 313, 115395. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115395
  17. Beutel, M. E., Krakau, L., Schmutzer, G., & Brähler, E. (2021). Somatic symptoms in the Eastern and Western states of Germany 30 years after unification: Population-based survey analyses. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 147, 110535. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2021.110535
  18. Hettich, N., Krakau, L., Rückert, K., Brähler, E., Zahn, D., Yilmaz, S., Münzel, T., Gianicolo, E., Schmidtmann, I., Schulz, A., Wild, P. S., Lackner, K. J., Schuster, A. K., & Beutel, M. E. (2021). Willingness to be vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2 in the German population during the second wave of the pandemic. Deutsches Aerzteblatt Online. https://doi.org/10.3238/arztebl.m2021.0350
  19. Krakau, L., Tibubos, A. N., Beutel, M. E., Ehrenthal, J. C., Gieler, U., & Brähler, E. (2021). Personality functioning as a mediator of adult mental health following child maltreatment. Journal of Affective Disorders, 291, 126–134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2021.05.006

Book Chapter

  1. Ernst, M., Krakau, L., Hettich, N., Reiner, I., Schulz, A.-C., Werner, A. M., & Beutel, M. E. (2024). Emotional awareness and processing in (psychodynamic) psychotherapy. In Change in Emotion and Mental Health (pp. 241–258). https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-95604-8.00003-4
  2. Tibubos, A. N., Krakau, L., Rohrmann, S., & Ringeisen, T. (2020). Prüfungsängstlichkeit im Kulturvergleich [Test-Anxiety cross cultural]. In T. Ringeisen, P. Genkova, & F. T. L. Leong (Eds.), Handbuch Stress und Kultur [Handbook Stress and Culture] (pp. 1–23). Springer: Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-27825-0_19-1

Preprint/Under Review

  1. Kaurin, A.*, Krakau, L.*, Wicher, C. L., Philippi, P., & Shiner, R. (2025). Adolescents’ Pathological Personality Traits and Mentalization in Daily Social Interactions: Linking Criterion A and B from the DSM-5 AMPD. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/za47s_v1
  2. Krakau, L., Wicke, F., Häuser, W., Beutel, M., Brähler, E., Hettich, N. (under Review). Chronique Fatigue: Psychometric Properties and Updated Norm Values of the Chalder Fatigue Scale in a Representative German Sample.

*shared first authorship