Sigmund Freud University Vienna

Private university in Vienna, Austria

Sigmund Freud Private University, Vienna

Sigmund Freud Private Universität Wien

Type| Private
Established| 2005
Rector| Alfred Pritz

Administrative staff

| 80
Students| 5000
Undergraduates| 200+
Postgraduates| 200+

Doctoral students

| 150
Location|

Vienna, Paris, Milan, Berlin, Ljubljana, Linz

Colours| burgundy, white
Website| www.sfu.ac.at/en/

Sigmund Freud Private University (SFU) is a private and for-profit[1] university accredited by the Austrian Accreditation Council in August 2005 located in Vienna, Austria. As a university in the field of Human Sciences, SFU specializes in Psychotherapy Science, Psychology, Medicine (since 2015), and Law (since 2016). Professor Alfred Pritz serves as Director of Sigmund Freud Private University, and Professor Giselher Guttmann serves as Academic Dean.

## Psychotherapy Science as an academic discipline[edit]

Sigmund Freud Private University pioneered the study of Psychotherapy Science as an academic degree. This program approaches Psychotherapy by emphasizing research activities, practical training, and academic exchange among different psychotherapy schools. Sigmund Freud Private University is one of the only academic institutions in the world where Psychotherapy is taught at an undergraduate level.

The Faculty of Psychotherapy Sciences at Sigmund Freud Private University offers the Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral Programs in Psychotherapy Science, as well as psychotherapy training in a variety of methods, including Behaviour Therapy, Psychoanalysis, Individual Psychology, Gestalt, Person-centred Psychotherapy and Systemic Family Therapy.

Key members of faculty at Sigmund Freud Private University include: Prof. Alfred Pritz, Prof. Giselher Guttmann, Prof. Bernd Rieken, Dr. Gerhard Benetka, Dr. Jutta Fiegl, Mag. Eva Pritz, Heinz Laubreuter, Prof. Thomas Druyen, Dr. Omar Gelo, Dr. Albina Colden, Dr. Diana Braakmann, Dr. Werner Gruber and Mag. Stefan Hampl.

All degree programmes in Psychotherapy Science are offered in German and in English.

Sigmund Freud Private University hosts the annual International Summer School in Psychotherapy—an intensive, four-week program in the fundamentals of psychotherapy theory and practice for students and professionals from around the world.

The Eastern European Institute at Sigmund Freud Private University was established in 2008, with the goals to aid in the development of the field of Psychotherapy in Eastern European nations, and to establish a Psychotherapy Research Center that deals specifically with Eastern European issues.

One of the research focuses at Sigmund Freud Private University Vienna is Messies, It comes from the word mess. It describes those who can't use their home as a place for relaxation after taking part in everyday tasks such as a job. Messies may gather things until their home is so full, that there is barely any room for the messies themselves. Messies may also fail at necessary tasks such as cleaning and handling food, clothing, and laundry.[2]

## Psychology[edit]

The Bachelor's Programme in Psychology is at this time offered in German and Italy only. Prof. Gerhard Benetka serves as the Head of the Psychology Programme.

## Outpatient clinic[edit]

The Sigmund Freud Private University Outpatient Clinic provides Psychotherapy services in German and English. There are currently 50 registered psychotherapists and about 100 supervised students at the clinic.

## Security research[edit]

With the CEUSS | Center for European Security Studies, led by Prof. Dr. Alexander Siedschlag, SFU has as well assumed a leading role in establishing Security Research as an academic subject and has so far taken part in four security research projects co-funded within the 7th EU Framework Programme, including the flagship project FOCUS that supports scenario foresight-based planning of future security research, with an emphasis on societal an ethics aspects. Within the framework of SFU as a university for humanities, CEUSS in particular contributes to the strengthening of social and cultural aspects and security culture as an analytical approach.

## Admission requirements[edit]

The following are admission requirements found on the University of Vienna website. To enter a Bachelor's program, a person requires a University entrance certificate. This is equivalent to a High School Diploma. Also, one must write a university entrance exam, which is equivalent to the American SATs or Austrian Studienberechtigungsprüfung. If chosen as a candidate, one must take part in two admission interviews. The interviewers are two individuals from Sigmund Freud Private University scientific staff (who decide whether the candidate will be admitted or not). The candidate will participate in an admission seminar as well.[3]

## References[edit]

1. ^ Evaluation and Recommendations of the Austrian Science Council (in German), December 2016, page 26, last access 22 April 2022.
2. ^ "English SFU". www.sfu.ac.at. Archived from the original on 14 April 2009. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
3. ^ "English SFU". www.sfu.ac.at. Archived from the original on 14 April 2009. Retrieved 17 January 2022.

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* Psychology Programme at SFU
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## Publications[edit]

* Slunecko, T., Przyborski, A. & Benetka, G. (2006). Psychology curriculae and the challenge of Bologna: An answer from a cultural science perspective.
* Wanted in Europe": The Sigmund Freud Private University (SFU) of Psychotherapy in Vienna is to launch a full programme of degree and non-degree courses taught and supported entirely in English. Accredited as a private university by the Austrian Accreditation Council in 2005, the SFU at 9 Schnirchgasse is the first university worldwide to offer comprehensive programmes in the science of psychotherapy.

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