Dr Rini Kerver
Dr Rini Kerver (1955) is a BIG-registered psychotherapist and was a candidate psychoanalyst with the Psychoanalytic Society from 1996 to 2014. From 2009 to 2011, he served on its board. Since 2023, he has been a member of the Royal Academy of Medicine.
He studied philosophy and clinical psychology (cum laude) in Utrecht and received his doctorate in Medicine in 1990 for a multicentre study of risk factors in the development of depression.
Since 1987, he has served as a permanent expert witness for the Ministry of Justice. From 1992 to 1996, he taught and supervised Interpersonal Psychotherapy in psychiatric training and taught psychopathology and psychodynamic diagnostics in clinical psychology training.
Since 1992, he has been affiliated with several outpatient clinics and founded the Veldwijk Research Institute. From that time onwards, he has also worked in his own practice.
He is co-author of the Handbook of Interpersonal Psychotherapy and author of several scientific articles on the influence of early trauma on psychobiological development.
Until 1 May 2011, alongside his private practice, he worked part-time as a psychotherapist at Scelta The Hague. From 2016 to 2020, he worked part-time at GGZ-Reflection in The Hague, where he also served as director of postgraduate psychology training.
He is married and has two daughters.
A forest grows between thought and speech.
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