The Bachelor of Arts (BA) Psychology undergraduate course of studies conveys psychology as a science which maps the human as a social and cultural being. The BA Psychology students learn how human individuals develop themselves in social and societal contexts, how they structure their surroundings, how they become mentally ill under unfavourable conditions, and how they can become healthy again in a conducive relationship bond using psychological means.

The Master of Arts (MA) Psychology course of studies imparts the contents of the specialist field of psychology across its complete spectrum. Doing so, it presents psychoanalysis as a clinical theory, as a theory of human development both positive and negative, as a method of counselling and therapeutic treatment, as well as a cultural theory and subject-scientific learning theory. This study course is available full-time, as well as part-time for working professionals or applicants who enrol as external students.

No further students will be accepted onto the part-time postgraduate Master of Arts (MA) Educational Studies - Psychosocial Intervention study course. We are currently planning an organisational psychoanalytic study course with a range of life long orientation focal points and a recognised qualification as a supervisor. Potentially, we will offer certified further training in this area initially, to be subsequently followed by a complete course of studies. The aim is to complete the planning by the end of March 2013. Should you be interested, please contact Ms. Kott in the MA Student Office under susanne.kott@ipu-berlin.de. We will keep all those interested informed and up-to-date regarding the situation.

The Master of Arts (MA) Psychoanalytical Cultural Studies course, intended as a part-time study course, is being held for the first time in the 2012-13 winter semester. It is available in three fields of studies - transcultural psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, psychoanalytical media-cultural studies and media psychology, as well as psychoanalysis culture/philosophy theory. The unique aspect of this study course is the double approach it takes: The psychoanalysis/culture interface is examined and studied from both sides. On the one hand, cultural issues are an original element of psychoanalytical object formation, while on the other hand, psychoanalytical approaches are an essential element of cultural studies.

NEW: The new advanced Master of Arts (MA) Integrated Care of Psychotically Ill Persons (Psychosis Therapy) study course, intended to be taken parallel to working full-time, is being offered jointly by the IPU (primary responsibility) and three further universities, the Charité University Medical Department in Berlin, the Catholic University for Applied Sciences Berlin and the UKE Hamburg Eppendorf University Hospital. This cooperative effort by these four universities will permit the integration in a highly unique manner of four different professional competencies, all of which are required when working with psychotically ill people: Psychodynamic competency, medicinal and pharmacological competency, social work competency and social psychiatric competency.

NEW: Postgraduate Study Program to accompany Individual Doctoral Dissertations (PSAID). The IPU has arranged a cooperation agreement with Humboldt University (Institute for Rehabilitation Sciences) in order to jointly accompany and support suitable scientists during their doctoral studies in the fields of psychodynamic psychotherapy/clinical psychology or psychoanalytical pedagogy.