Name of the IPU professor involved: Prof. Dr. Dr. Phil C. Langer

Project Period: ongoing since March 2020

Short description: Researching the question, on how corona influences our perception, our experiences and the shaping of our relationships.

Partner institution: Institute for Educational Science at the University of Vienna (Austria)

Cooperation associate: Prof. Dr. Bettina Dausien (University of Vienna)

Name of the IPU professors involved: Prof. Dr. Dr. Phil C. Langer

Project period: ongoing since 2020

Short description: Project to evaluate sport as an intervention to improve the well-being of children and young people in northern Iraq.

Partner institutions: HIZ der Deutschen Sporthochschule Köln, University Dohuk (Northern Iraq)

Name of the IPU professor involved: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Konrad Schnabel

Project period: ongoing since 2020

Short description: The aim of this project is to develop a Macedonian version of the Psychological Well Being Scale (PWBS) by Carol Ryff (2014) in a representative sample in the Republic of Northern Macedonia. The PWBS is one of the most widely used scales for assessing psychological well-being. It is based on a eudaimonic model of psychological well-being.

Representative sample from the Republic of Northern Macedonia

Cooperation associate: M.A. Ilija Dojchinovski (IPU Berlin)

Name of the IPU professor involved: Prof. Dr. Christine Stelzel

Project period: ongoing since 2019

Short description: Based on findings on the association of frequent simultaneous media use ("media multitasking") and increased distractibility, modality-specific effects and the role of motivational variables (correlative) as well as effects of media multitasking on different cognitive control processes (experimental) are investigated.

Partner university: University of Ghent (Belgium)

Name of the IPU professor involved: Prof. Dr. Andreas Hamburger

Projekt period: 2018 - 2022

Short description: The network project (STICS) brings students and teachers from Germany together with students and teachers from Bosnia, Bulgaria, Serbia and Turkey. It is based on the results and resources of an intensive long-term cooperation within the DAAD networks “Trauma – Trust – Memory (TTM)” and “Migration – Trauma in Transition (MTT)”. The aim is to strengthen transregional academic cooperation on the topic of "Social Trauma". Special attention is given to the influence of social trauma on the development of civil society(ies) in the participating countries.

Partner universitäties: University of Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina), University of Tuzla (Bosnia and Herzegovina), University of Banja Luka (Bosnia und Herzegovina), University of Belgrade (Serbia), University of Nis (Serbia), St. Kliment Ohridski University Sofia (Bulgaria), New Bulgarian University Sofia (Bulgaria), University of the Aegean Lesbos (Greece), Bilkent University Ankara (Turkey), Başkent University (Turkey)

cooperation associates: Dr. Slavica Tutnjević (University of Banja Luka), Prof. Dr. Dženana Husremović (University of Sarajevo), Prof. Dr. Maida Koso-Drljević (University of Tuzla), Dr. sc. Damir Arsenijević (University of Tuzla), Assoc. Prof. Dr. Camellia Hancheva (University Sofia St. Kliment Ohridski), Assis. Prof. Biljana Stanković (University of Belgrade), Prof. Dr. Vladimir Hedrih (University of Nis), Prof. Dr. Gamze Özçürümez (Başkent University), Prof. Saime Özçürümez (Bilkent University)

previous projects: 

Trauma, Trust and  Memory – Social Trauma  and Reconciliation in Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy and Cultural Memory (TTM)

Name of the IPU professor involved: Prof. Dr. Andreas Hamburger

Project period: 2013 - 2015

Short description: The project has established a transnational network in interdisciplinary and psychoanalytical trauma research supported by young researchers. It contributes to overcoming individual and social experiences of trauma, and creates conditions for subjective and collective reconciliation.

Partner universitäties: University of Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina), University of Tuzla (Bosnia and Herzegovina), University of Banja Luka (Bosnia und Herzegovina), University of Belgrade (Serbia), University of Nis (Serbia), St. Kliment Ohridski University Sofia (Bulgaria), New Bulgarian University Sofia (Bulgaria), University of the Aegean Lesbos (Greece), Bilkent University Ankara (Turkey)

Cooperation associates: Dr. Slavica Tutnjević (University of Banja Luka), Dr. Sabina Alispahić (University of Sarajevo), Dr. Larisa Kasumagić (University of Sarajevo), Prof. Dr. Dubravko Lovrenović (University of Sarajevo), Assoc. Prof. Dr. Camellia Hancheva (St. Kliment Ohridski), Prof. Dr. Nikola Atanassov (verstorben) (New Bulgarian University), Prof. Dr. Aleksandar Dimitrijević (IPU Berlin), Prof. Dr. Vladimir Hedrih (University of Nis)

Migration – Trauma in  Transition (MTT)

Name of the IPU professor involved: Prof. Dr. Andreas Hamburger

Project period: 2016 - 2017

Short description: Successor to the "Trauma, Trust and Memory" project

Partner universities: University of Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina), University of Tuzla (Bosnia and Herzegovina), University of Banja Luka (Bosnia und Herzegovina), University of Belgrade (Serbia), University of Nis (Serbia), St. Kliment Ohridski University Sofia (Bulgaria), New Bulgarian University Sofia (Bulgaria), University of the Aegean Lesbos (Greece), Bilkent University Ankara (Turkey)

Cooperation associates: Dr. Slavica Tutnjević (University of Banja Luka), Assoc. Prof. Dženana Husremović (University of Sarajevo), Assoc. Prof. Dr. Camellia Hancheva (University Sofia St. Kliment Ohridski), Assis. Prof. Biljana Stanković (University of Belgrade), Prof. Dr. Vladimir Hedrih (University of Nis), Prof. Saime Özcürümez (Bilkent University), Prof. Sotiris Xtouris (University of the Aegean)

Name of the IPU researcher involved: Dr. Aleksander Dimitrijevic

Project period: ongoing since 2015

Short description: Examining the effects of migration and war experiences on attachment and mentalisation within young individuals in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Germany, and Serbia.

Partner university: University Sofia St. Kliment Ohridski (Bulgaria)

Cooperation associate: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Camellia Hancheva (University Sofia St. Kliment Ohridski)

Name of the IPU professor involved: Prof. Dr. Dr. Phil C. Langer

Project period: ongoing since 2015

Short description: Exploring the transgenerational transmission of traumatisation in families of Shoa survivors.

Partner institution: Clinic Barmelweid (Switzerland)

Cooperation associate: Priv.-Doz. Dr. Joram Ronel (Clinic Barmelweid)

Name of the IPU Professor: Prof. Dr. Tamara Fischmann

Project period: Ongoing since 2019

Short description: The multi-centre study (MODE) investigates the results of high-frequency and low-frequency psychoanalysis in early traumatised, chronically depressed patients with experienced childhood trauma.

Cooperation partners: Prof. Dr. Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber (Uni Mainz), Prof. Bradley Peterson (CHLA Los Angeles, USA), Dr. Gilles Ambresin (CHUV Lausanne, Schweiz), Cheryl Goodrich & Klaus Poppensieker (SFCP, San Francisco), Bart Blinder & Linda Goodman (NCP, Los Angeles), Prof. Dr. Nikolai Axmacher (Uni Bochum)

Countries involved: Switzerland, USA

Partner institutions: International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA) und die American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA), die Alfred Berman Foundation und die Robert. S. Wallerstein Fellowship to Psychoanalytic Research

Name of the IPU Professor: Prof. Dr. Thomas Kühn

Project period:  2020-2023

Short description: In this study, experiences during the Corona pandemic are examined, as well as perceived effects, for example on personal feelings and social relationships, but also on political and social issues in Germany and Brazil.

Cooperation partners: Dr. Sebastian Bobeth, Katrin Voigt (IPU Berlin), Prof. Dr. Dr. Phil C. Langer (IPU), Daniela Alcoforado (UFPE-Recife, Brasil)

Partner institutions: Erich Fromm Study Center

Countries involved: Brasil

Name of the IPU professor: Prof. Dr. Christine Stelzel
Prof. Dr. Tamara Fischmann

Project period: Ongoing since 2021

Short description: This interdisciplinary project is located at the interface between cognitive neuroscience, neuropsychoanalysis and personality psychology. The project aims to bring together behavioural and neurophysiological methods in healthy individuals to investigate specific aspects of affective neuroscience theory (ANT; Panksepp (2004)).

Cooperation partners: M.A. Sofia Kontaxi (PhD student), Prof. Dr. Lars Kuchinke (IPU Berlin), Prof. Dr. Birgit Stuermer (IPU Berlin), Prof. Kenneth L. Davis (emer.), Dr. Donné Minné (University of Cape Town, South Africa), Prof. Mark Solms (University of Cape Town, South Africa)

Partner institutions: Stiftung zur Förderung der universitären Psychoanalyse

Countries involved: South Africa

Name of the IPU professor: Jenny Lou Eis, M.A.-Psych.

Project period: Ongoing since 2023

Short description: The importance of rupture repair for the patient-therapist alliance has been demonstrated repeatedly but underlying processes require further investigation. For this, the Rupture Resolution Rating System (3RS) is the best observer-based measurement available. Recently, it has been revised (version2022), but its application to videotaped psychotherapy sessions is recommended. Therefore, this study aims to a) establish the 3RSv2022’s interrater-reliability and construct validity in its application to audio-recorded psychotherapy sessions and b) validate 3RSv2022’s in order to facilitate the use of this measure for a wider range of psychotherapy process research.

Cooperation partners: Prof. J.Christopher Muran (Mount Sinai Beth Israel / Adelphi University, USA), Prof. Wolfgang Lutz (University of Trier), Prof. Christoph Flückiger (University of Kassel), Prof. Sylke Andreas (University of Klagenfurt, Austria), Research assistants: Levin Laser, M.Sc., Nicolas Luh, M.Sc.

Countries involved: USA, Austria