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Clinical psychology on a psychoanalytic basis is the focus of the master’s program in psychology. As a result, you will learn about the range of psychological interventions in a practical and research-oriented manner. You will deal with all common orientations such as cognitive-behavioral therapy and systemic psychotherapy methods, and in a special way with depth psychology-based and especially psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Through the psychoanalytic perspective, you will learn about cultural-theoretical, subject-scientific and social-psychological aspects of this modern, transdisciplinary human science. This is the quality and distinguishing feature of IPU’s Master’s in Psychology from the predominantly behavioral science-oriented programs at state universities. Your studies always relate to practice. Many of the faculty are clinically experienced and practicing psychoanalysts or psychotherapists. Methodologically, we teach you the full range of empirical, statistical, and qualitative methods, with an emphasis on those methods that are particularly suited to capture and map the process and outcome of psychoanalytic treatments. With the completion of the Master’s degree in Psychology at the IPU, in combination with a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology or a psychology-related field of study, you can fulfill the requirements for access to training as a psychological psychotherapist according to German law. before September 2020. The program is offered part-time and can be combined with the full-time English-language MA Psychology program. If there are sufficient numbers of students, it is possible that individual seminars in the full-time English MA will be offered in German. You can complete the new MA Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy if your bachelor’s degree meets the requirements of the currently valid licensing regulations. Corresponding achievements can be made up by admission to a higher semester in the Bachelor’s program before beginning the Master’s program at the IPU. Questions about the study program Almuth Jung Stromstr. 3b Tel.: +49 30 300 117-542 Office hours Tues. 10:00 – 12:00 On block weekends/in the block week: Fri. 11:00 – 14:00 As well as by appointment. Questions about the application Marius Digel Tel.: +49 30 300 117-543 Victoria Shefer Tel.: +49 30 300 117-547 Stromstr. 3b – Room 0.40/0.39

Head of study program	Prof. Dr. Tamara Fischmann
Degree	Master of Arts
Type	Part-time study program
Credits	120 credits
Duration	8 semesters (part-time)
Number of students	approx. 25 per academic year
Teaching/learning formats	Lecture, seminar, research workshop
Teaching language	German and English
Prerequisite	General university entrance qualification or subject-specific university entrance qualification according to § 11 Berlin Higher Education Act (BerlHg), Bachelor’s degree in psychology (or at least 60 ECTS in the subject of psychology).
Costs	Payment by semester 3.500€, monthly 610€ or in advance 25.100€.
Start of study	Winter semester

The program comprises 120 credit points, which you can earn in eight semesters of part-time study. The credit points are distributed roughly evenly over the semesters, with the master’s thesis being written in the last two semesters. If you are an out-of-towner or a working professional and would like to complete the part-time program, the attendance times are divided into four weekends and one block week per semester. The subjects of the program are divided into five areas of study. In addition, there is an elective subject, which is designed to give you the opportunity to focus on a scientific subject according to your own interests. A professional internship is also mandatory. As a student, you will be qualified to work independently as a clinical psycholog:ic psychoanalytically oriented. You can then apply for training as a psychological psychotherapist in accordance with the Psychotherapists Act (PsychThG). You are free to choose one of the psychotherapeutic directions recognized under the PsychThG (behavioral therapy, depth psychology, psychoanalytic). This applies without restriction if you begin your master’s studies after a bachelor’s degree in psychology. As a graduate of the program, you will also have the best prerequisites for conducting interdisciplinary research and gaining further scientific qualifications. It is to be expected that you, as a graduate, will be particularly well prepared for the contents and goals of a psychoanalytically and/or depth-psychologically based education due to the experiences in the application-oriented courses (initial interview seminars, case presentations, casuistic seminars). This course was offered for the last time in the winter semester 2022/2023. It is no longer possible to apply. Tuition fees are 3,500 euros per semester. Alternative payments are possible in two ways:

610 euros per month,
in advance: 25,100 euros.

The fees for the bridge courses, which may have to be taken as an admission requirement, are 450 euros for one course, 700 euros for two courses, 900 euros for all three courses. The IPU participates in the Germany Scholarships program, for which every student can apply. The most important criteria to receive such a grant of 300 € per month are previous achievements, social commitment and possible financial need. As a student:r of the IPU we offer you talks with the Opportunities eG to you. With the there offered Reversed Generation Contract you can finance your studies and do not have to pay the costs until you earn enough money yourself. The IPU is a member of the Student Loan Fund Berlin e.V. (DAKA). As a student of the IPU, you can get a loan there at the most favorable conditions in all of Berlin. Current possibilities for financing your studies can be found here. Through the International Office, the IPU is networked with numerous universities in other European countries and around the world. All enrolled students can spend an internship or an entire semester at one of these partner universities abroad. The recognition of the achieved credit points in the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) is already contractually regulated.

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Type:: Universities
Doctoral degree:: No
Sponsorship:: Private, state-approved
Year founded:: 2009
Number of students:: 894
Location(s):: Berlin

Further basic information Winter semester

Lecture period:: 02.11.2020 – 06.02.2021

Undergraduate programs Without admission restriction

First-year students:: Not applicable

Transfer students:: Anytime

International students from the European Union:: inquire at university

International students from countries that are not members of the EU:: Please contact the university

Continuing studies Without admission restriction

First-year students:: Not applicable

Transfer students:: At any time

International students from the European Union:: inquire at university

International students from countries that are not members of the EU:: Please contact the university

Summer semester

Lecture period:: 12.04.2021 – 18.07.2021

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The Psychoanalytic University in Berlin We are the psychoanalytic university in Berlin. The IPU combines challenging science with practice-oriented degree programs in psychology and the in-service programs Interdisciplinary Psychosis Therapy, Cultural Studies, and Leadership and Counseling. Our Profile In a complex world, answers to many questions must remain ambiguous. At IPU, we see this multiplicity as a scientific challenge. We think that those who accept this condition can better orient themselves. To this end, we adopt a psychoanalytic perspective, which aims at learning to accept the ambiguity of life. Psychoanalysis examines human feeling and thinking, a large part of which is unconscious. In order to recognize the unconscious, we must learn to question what we take for granted. Only then can we find what triggers feelings in us and moves us to act. Often these are small things, a word, a gesture, which we can only recognize if we look beneath the surface. At the IPU, we therefore teach psychoanalysis as an attitude of inquiry. We offer our students thinking spaces to better understand life, society and thus themselves. Such an attitude is personality-building – an aspect that is often neglected in the school-like Bachelor-Master system. Advantages of studying at IPU All enrolled students can transfer to one of the partner universities abroad for an internship or a complete semester. Contractually, everything is already arranged so that the recognition of study achievements and credit points is automatic. To finance your studies, you can apply for the Deutschlandstipendium, regardless of your parents’ income. What counts most are previous achievements, social commitment and financial need, if this exists. In case of a grant you will receive 300€ per month. In addition, the IPU cooperates with Chancen eG, which offers the Reverse Generation Contract. This gives you the possibility to finance your studies and only pay afterwards, as soon as you earn enough money yourself. In addition, the IPU is a member of the Student Loan Fund Berlin. There you can get the most favorable student loan in Berlin. Video of the university Studying at the IPU Berlin A study program that focuses on the human being like no other. Podcast 50 minutes The psychoanalytic podcast of the IPU Berlin. Daniel Jakubowski and Samuel Bayer talk monthly with guests about clinical topics and more. Get to know the IPU:

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Our degree programs:

BSc Psychology
MA Psychology with clinical focus (full-time and part-time).
MA Psychology – Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy
MA Psychology – English Track
MA Psychology focusing on Organization – Transformation Processes in Work, Society and Environment
MA Psychology – Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy
MA Cultural Studies (part-time)
MA Interdisciplinary Psychotherapy (part-time)
MA Leadership and Counseling (part-time)

Questions about the university The International Psychoanalytic University Berlin belongs to the universities. No, you cannot do a PhD at the International Psychoanalytic University Berlin. The International Psychoanalytic University Berlin is a private, state-recognized university. There are state and state-recognized institutions of higher education, which are usually divided into universities, universities of applied sciences (international: University of Applied Sciences) and colleges of art and music. The majority of universities are financed by the state and are therefore state-run. As a rule, only small semester fees are charged there. Private universities, on the other hand, which are financed by private sponsorships, may charge much higher tuition fees. One way to get around the financial hurdles of these colleges can be scholarships. There are also universities run by the Protestant or Catholic churches. The International Psychoanalytic University Berlin was founded in 2009. There are a total of 894 students at International Psychoanalytic University Berlin. The location of this university is Berlin. Here you can find the deadlines and dates for your application: Winter semester

Lecture period:: 02.11.2020 – 06.02.2021

Undergraduate programs Without admission restriction

First-year students:: Not applicable

Transfer students:: Anytime

International students from the European Union:: inquire at university

International students from countries that are not members of the EU:: Please contact the university

Continuing studies Without admission restriction

First-year students:: Not applicable

Transfer students:: At any time

International students from the European Union:: inquire at university

International students from countries that are not members of the EU:: Please contact the university

Summer semester

Lecture period:: 12.04.2021 – 18.07.2021

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In 3 steps to studying All those who came to the small general store told their stories. Customers talked about worries, wishes, hardships, about family celebrations, bereavements, conflicts. In Itzehoe, a small town in the wooded west of Schleswig-Holstein, Martin Teising’s parents had opened the small store after fleeing from East Prussia. The son was born in the town in 1951 and grew up there. Six years ago, Teising, a psychoanalyst and specialist in psychiatry, came to Berlin as president of the International Psychoanalytic University (IPU). His bright study in the private university’s modern building looks out over the waters of the Spree River in Moabit. For Teising, these are farewell views; on October 1, he will hand over his post to his colleague Ilka Quindeau. With 140 scientists and visiting scholars from all over the world, who supervise around 630 students in bachelor’s and master’s programs or in advanced training courses alongside their jobs, the IPU is rather a small institution compared to the large faculties of the state universities.

80 to 90 percent of students want to become therapists

But nowhere else in Germany, in Europe, does a comparable institution exist. The IPU sees its mission in the “analysis of unconscious processes in the individual, the group, the organization and society”; the subjects studied are psychology and cultural studies. In German and English, the courses cover fields as diverse as methodology, trauma theory, discourse criticism, neurophysiology, virtuality, gender studies and supervision research. Many of the lecturers are therapists themselves, and “eighty to ninety percent of the students,” Teising estimates, “want to become therapists. For now, they are on campus with laptops and bundles of books. Martin Teising, a psychoanalyst and president of IPU from 2012 to 2018, his own path to this place may have started with his father’s store. There were few books in the family home, but, he recalls, “There was a lot of talking.” One observed the social fabric, knew a lot about the private lives of others – and always had to be discreet about it. Like psychoanalysts do with what they hear from the couch? “Maybe that was an origin,” Martin Teising says with a smile. Teachers fresh out of the student revolt also blazed the trail for him in the beginning, then civilian service at a clinic and studying medicine and sociology in Frankfurt am Main, reading Mitscherlich and Marcuse. Last but not least, Teising was influenced by his training as a psychosomatics and analyst in Kassel and in Bad Hersfeld, where he, like his wife, maintains an analytical practice. Ingrid Moeslein-Teising currently heads the German Society for Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Depth Psychology, the DGPT, a couple in permanent dialogue.

The IPU was founded in 2009 on private initiative

The young man had thought that once the psychological suffering of society was recognized and the stress of capitalism was combated, “then a better world would emerge!” Teising has to smile about this, too, neither wistful nor detached, but sobered in composure. The fact that the world has turned out to be more complex is something he appreciates, and when he became involved with the Green Party for a while, it was completely clear to him: politics is not his thing. “For me, questions and doubts are more important than unambiguous positions.” Hermeneutic understanding is something he lacks even now in the polarized debates about xenophobia and refugees, for example, or Donald Trump. What has remained constant is Teising’s interest in the unconscious, whether as a clinician, as a professor of social psychology, or in his area of research on aging and male suicidality, “where narcissistic slights and notions of paradise play a major role.” The IPU, which is dedicated to the theory and practice of psychoanalysis in an undogmatic and high-level manner, is a stroke of luck that owes its existence to private initiative. In 2009, it was founded by Frankfurt-based analyst and psychology professor Christa Rohde-Dachser with her own capital. Rohde-Dachser understood it as a response to the marginalization of psychoanalysis at state universities.

Disappointed by the study of psychology at state universities

In the meantime, IPU programs have been accredited by the state, and the right to award doctorates is being sought. The high tuition fees – a full course of study costs around 11,000 euros a year – can be partly covered by scholarships or loans. “At good American universities, studying is far more expensive,” Teising explains. “Many come to us because they are disappointed with psychology studies at state universities.” They’re looking for slow food instead of fast food, so to speak. Nevertheless, there are fruitful exchanges, for example with Freie Universität. And since 2011, a psychotherapeutic university outpatient clinic has been offering diagnoses and treatments financed by the health insurance system. Now the athletically aged man is leaving his post as university president to his successor, Ilka Quindeau. Teising, who will continue to practice, looks back fondly on achievements, such as the IPU’s Trauma Memory and Trust project, which he established with Gaby Shefler of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Teising takes particular pleasure in giving tours of the campus’s excellently equipped specialist library, the most valuable part of which is thanks to a donation. Persecuted and ostracized by National Socialism, many members of the profession escaped into exile. A German-language specialist library was established in London, among other places, where Sigmund Freud and his daughter Anna Freud had fled. Two years ago, hundreds of the volumes migrated back when the British Psychoanalytical Society donated its holdings to the IPU. “Nobody reads German with us anymore,” they had said. As a result, the monographs, work editions and journals from the pre-war years, some of which are rare, now stand in display cases in the library on the Spree. Martin Teising keeps a Berlin apartment nearby, but he does not have to part with these treasures completely. To the home page

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