Andreas Maercker

Andreas Maercker (born 26 April 1960) is a German clinical psychologist and international expert in traumatic stress-related mental disorders who works in Switzerland.

In 1995 he graduated as Ph.D. with a study conducted at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin supervised by psychologist Paul B. Baltes.

[1] In 1998, he co-founded the German language Society for Psychotraumatology (Deutschsprachige Gesellschaft für Psychotraumatologie) and served as its president.

A parallel study using emic and etic methods, ongoing since 2022, analyzes cultural scripts of trauma sequelae in Switzerland, Rwanda, Georgia, China, and Israel.

Historical trauma is operationalized as individual and especially socio-psychological long-term effects, perpetuated by discrimination or marginalization of victims and their subsequent generations.