Susanne Benzel

Prof. Dr. Susanne Benzel is a faculty member at Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences in the Department of Social Work & Health. She holds the Professorship for 'Social Consequences of Digitalization and their Significance for Social Work' since April 2025, following multiple acting professor roles in sociology and psychoanalytic social psychology at Goethe University Frankfurt (2022-2024, 2019-2020). Her career includes research stays at St Mary's University London and 17 years of coordinated doctoral programs on migration and adolescence.

Key research areas include:

• Digitalization's psychosocial impacts
• Adolescent self-harm and body practices
• Migration's generational dynamics
• Remote psychotherapy during pandemic
• Gender-specific social media usage

Recent publications analyze:

• Eating disorder representations on TikTok
• Adolescent body image in digital contexts
• Mental health impacts of remote treatment
• Migration's educational consequences

She serves on editorial boards and review panels for journals like Kinder- und Jugendlichen-Psychotherapie and GISo (2020-2025), while maintaining affiliations with psychoanalytic institutions including Sigmund Freud Institute (2016-2025).