Article History
Received: 11 January 2017
Accepted: 9 April 2018
First Online: 27 April 2018
Authors’ information
: CS is a consultant in psychosomatic medicine, medical psychotherapy, and palliative medicine in Germany. He is a training psychiatrist in the Maudsley Training Programme, affiliated with the Institute for Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College, London, UK. Additionally, he pursues a doctorate in professional studies (DProf) in existential-phenomenological psychotherapy at the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling in London, UK. UWM is a scientist in behaviour and education, and a research associate for teaching at the Heinrich Heine University, Medical Faculty, Interdisciplinary Centre of Palliative Care, Dusseldorf, Germany. KF is a psychologist, doctoral candidate, freelance consultant for research methodology, and statistics and research associate at the Chair for Research Methodology and Statistics in Psychology at the Department of Psychology and Psychotherapy, Faculty of Health at Witten/Herdecke University, Witten, Germany.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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