Sigmund Freud Private University Vienna was the first university to offer psychotherapy science as an academic programme. In 2005, the Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programmes in psychotherapy science were accredited, followed by the Doctoral programme in 2007. At the Faculty of Psychotherapy Science in Vienna, the study programmes in psychotherapy science are offered in German and English.
University outpatient clinics as training and care facilities
In 2006 the Psychotherapeutic Outpatient Clinics were founded which today are a pillar in providing mental health services to people living in Vienna, and are valuable training institutions for our students:
- Psychotherapy Outpatient Clinic for Adults
- Psychotherapeutic Outpatient Clinic for Children and Adolescents
Research institutes and specialisations within the faculty
The Faculty of Psychotherapy Science is a pioneer in developing psychotherapy research and is home to several research institutes. Information on the teaching and research activities of the institutes, special offers for students and contact details can be found here:
- Institute for Qualitative Psychotherapy Research
- Institute for Psychotextology and Philosophical Psychotherapy Studies
- Institute for Psychosomatics
- Institute for Transcultural and Historical Research
- Institute for Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy
- Institute for Psychoanalytic-Ethnological Disaster Research
- Institute for Mental Health and Business
- Institute for Behavioural Addictions and and Addiction Research
- Institute for Ageing Research
- Institute for Futures Research in Human Sciences
- Institute for Training Research
- Linz Institute for Basic and Methodological Research
- Institute for Transgenerational Trauma Transfer Research
- Institute for Security Research and Crisis Management
International presence
The Dean of the Faculty of Psychotherapy Science is Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jutta Fiegl. In addition to the headquarters of the faculty in Vienna, you can find departments of psychotherapy science in the following places of implementation: Berlin, Linz, Ljubljana and Paris. There the Bachelor and Master Degree Programmes in Psychotherapy Science are offered in the respective local language.