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Psychotherapy Research

Psychotherapy outcome and process research investigate whether and how psychotherapy has an effect. For this purpose, therapy concepts are developed for patients of all ages and with various problem situations. These concepts are then tested using evidence-based methods. In process studies on effective factors and mechanisms, clinical material is examined using a variety of methods and approaches in order to better understand how a given intervention works. Another objective is to maintain and improve the quality of psychotherapy. Psychotherapieforschung: Read more

Transformation Research

The analysis of cultural and social transformation processes focuses on the contradictory experiences, ways of perception, identities and options for action of subjects and social groups under the condition of a radically changing social reality. Explored here is then a psychoanalytically informed and fundamentally empirically-qualitative, transdisciplinary and socio-critical perspective, with which the possibilities for individual and collective emancipation are to be examined. Transformationsforschung: Read more

Conceptual Research

Experiences can be captured in concepts that are constantly changing and generated anew. Psychoanalytic and related concepts are reflected epistemologically, socially and culturally and are researched empirically. Research is conducted at the intersection of psyche and society, addressing contemporary and methodological considerations of subjectivity. Konzeptforschung: Read more

Further research projects