Faculty of Psychotherapy Science
Sigmund Freud Private University (SFU) has more than twenty years of experience in educating and training future psychotherapists at university level. SFU’s degree programme in Psychotherapy Science was the first university-based programme in Europe to combine academically grounded teaching with practice-oriented training for the profession of psychotherapist.
This expertise is now being brought to bear in the implementation of Austria’s new Psychotherapy Act, which was passed by the National Council in 2024.
Study programmes in English
The Faculty of Psychotherapy Science offers the following degree programmes in English:
- Bachelor Degree Programme in Psychotherapy Science, BA. pth.
- Master Degree Programme in Psychotherapy Science, Mag. pth.
- Doctorate in Psychotherapy Science, Dr. scient. pth.
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 Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Research
- Institute for Transcultural and Historical Research
- Institute for Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy
- Institute for Psychoanalytic-Ethnological Disaster Research
- 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
International presence
The Dean of the Faculty of Psychotherapy Science is Univ.-Prof. Priv.-Doz. Dr. Andrea Jesser. In addition to the headquarters of the faculty in Vienna, you can find departments of psychotherapy science in the places of implementation in Berlin, Linz, Ljubljana and Paris where the Study Programmes in Psychotherapy Science are offered in the respective local language.
