IPU News

The IPU Berlin recently hosted the Bucerius Summer School at Stromstraße in Berlin-Moabit. Erich Fromm Professor Thomas Kühn discussed global challenges in a shifting world order with students and young professionals from many countries as well as Jonathan Keir from the Karl Sch ... →

For her international collaborative project, IPU research associate Jenny Eis received an award from the prestigious Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR). SPR is a renowned international society for psychotherapy research which awards individual and collaborative projects an ... →

Macht bedeutet Überlegenheit und Unterlegenheit, ob in zwischenmenschlichen Beziehungen, in der Politik oder – in Organisationen. Von der Überlegenheit scheint es nur ein kleiner Schritt zum Machtmissbrauch zu sein, denn Macht auszuüben genießt in der aktuellen Zeit kein be ... →

Together with the Berlin psychoanalytic institutes, the IPU Berlin once again offered a multifaceted and transdisciplinary program for visitors of the Long Night of the Sciences. Almost 1000 people came to the premises in the Stromstraße in Berlin-Moabit. In our picture gallery  ... →

Zoë Hauptmann (Bachelor) and Jonas Rudolph (Master) submitted the best theses of this past year at IPU Berlin and will be awarded a financial contribution.

The IPU would like to congratulate the Karl Schlecht Foundation on being named the Scientific Foundation of the Year for 2023. In 2016, the foundation was instrumental in establishing the Erich Fromm Study Center (EFSC) within the IPU. Under the direction of IPU's Professor Thom ... →

In einem Audiobeitrag beschreibt Prof. Dr. Thomas Bock, inwiefern psychische Erkrankungen häufig viel leichter nachvollziehbar sind, als wir auf den ersten Blick meinen. Das vermeintlich Fremde ist uns ähnlich, es braucht nur einen kleinen Perspektivwechsel, um das zu verstehen. ... →

The IPU warmly congratulates Rainer Funk on his 80th birthday. The executive board of the IPU and Prof. Dr. Thomas Kühn, co-director of the EFSC, thank Mr. Funk for his contributions to psychoanalysis and his support for the academic importance of the IPU. The name Rainer Funk  ... →

The IPU mourns the death of Prof. Dr. Heinrich Deserno, former professor and director of the IPU’s psychotherapeutic outpatient clinic. Deserno passed away on 14 February, 2023. In memory of him, this is his obituary by Prof. Dr. Lutz Wittmann.

The IPU congratulates Deborah Karen Santarpia on receiving the DAAD Award 2022. Deborah studies the English Master's in Clinical Psychology at the IPU. Originally, she is from Como, Italy. In her work in the StuFen project at the IPU, she supports refugees in pursuing higher edu ... →

A joint Doctoral Colloquium between a public and a private university is quite remarkable. The Köhler Foundation and the Foundation to Promote University Psychoanalysis are funding three doctoral projects each through scholarships. The projects are under the topic of Trauma and  ... →

Einmal im Monat sprechen Daniel Jakubowski, Samuel Bayer und Marie-Luise Alder mit Wissenschaftler:innen, Therapeut:innen und Expert:innen über klinische, gesellschaftliche und kulturelle Themen.

The project StuFen at IPU (“Students Help Refugees”) supports refugees by arranging educational opportunities tailored to their respective situations. This helps many people in forced situations of flight to find a new sense of direction that ties in with their previous educatio ... →

IPU president Prof. Jan-Hendrik Olbertz would like to express his deep dismay due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. As an academic institution, a learning environment, and a place for psychoanalysis, the IPU feels solidarity towards the people of Ukraine, its scholars, students ... →