Univ.-Prof. Dr. Patrizia Giampieri-Deutsch
Head of
Department of Psychodynamics
CV UNIV.-PROF.in DR.in PATRIZIA GIAMPIERI-DEUTSCH
PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOTHERAPY RESEARCH AND HEAD OF DIVISION OF PSYCHODYNAMICS
KARL LANDSTEINER UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES, KREMS AN DER DONAU (A)
UNIVERSITY
Professor Dr. Patrizia Giampieri-Deutsch is University Professor of Psychotherapy Research and Head of the Department of Psychodynamics (appointed on the 1st of March 2016) at the Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences Krems (A) and University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Vienna (A).
Professor Dr. Giampieri-Deutsch is a member of the Commission for Equality and the Advancement of Women at the Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences (since 2016) and its Commissioner for Confessional Equality Issues (appointed on the 25th of January by the President of the University Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Rudolf Mallinger, Chairman of the Commission for Equality and the Advancement of Women).
Professor Dr. Giampieri-Deutsch is Scientific Director of the Maimonides Lectures of the ÖAW (with Professor Dr. Hans-Dieter Klein, also a Full Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences). The Maimonides Lectures are part of the project K3-F-730/001-2017 “Psychological and psychodynamic aspects of religious experiences in the frame of reference of the Abrahamic religions” and of its continuation K3-F-730/006-2022, under the patronage of and funded by the Province of Lower Austria. The Karl Landsteiner University's partners in this project are the Abrahamic religions in Austria and the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Key partners are International Council of Christians and Jews (ICCJ) as well as the University College of Teacher Education of Christian Churches Austria.
In the year 2024, the Maimonides Lectures celebrated their 10th Anniversary.
This project was started in the spirit of the Alliance for Responsible Science of the Federal Ministry of Woman, Science Education and Research (BMFWF) of the Republic of Austria and of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) on the one hand, and on the other hand in the context of the Program on Religion, Diplomacy, and International Relations (PORDIR) of the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination (LISD), Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Part of the project is devoted to the establishment of the Archive Abrahamic Religions in Dialogue with Science and Society at the Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences. A further part of the project is focused on Hermann Cohen’s research and established the Hermann Cohen Lectures as well as a Working Group both at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). Cohen's concept of a “religion of reason” is an essential tool for countering emerging tendencies towards fundamentalism that are undermining the Abrahamic religions and for strengthening the common ground between the Abrahamic religions.
At the University of Vienna, Professor Dr. Giampieri-Deutsch is a member and supervisor at the Vienna Doctoral School of Philosophy (VDP). Since 2000, she has been appointed as a member and supervisor for PhD candidates, and she runs ongoing seminars for PhD candidates.
At the University of Vienna, Professor Dr. Giampieri-Deutsch is also a member and supervisor at the Vienna Doctoral School of Theology and Research on Religion (VDTR) (appointed 2024) as well as a member of the Research Centre Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society (RaT) at the University of Vienna (appointed 2024).
She is a member of the International Board of the “Dottorato di Studi Umanistici dell' Università della Calabria” (I) (appointed 2020).
PSYCHOANALYSIS (WPV, IPA, EPF)
Professor Dr. Giampieri-Deutsch is a full member, training analyst and supervisor of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society (WPV) and the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) as well as a registered psychoanalyst in private practice.
On Tuesday, the 5th of August 2025, Prof. Patrizia Giampieri-Deutsch was officially appointed as a member of the newly established committee of the International Psychoanalytical Association, the IPA Committee Psychoanalysis and the University.
2020-2023 Professor Dr. Giampieri-Deutsch has been a member of the scientific EPF Programme Committee of the European Psychoanalytical Federation.
Since 2000, she has been and she is currently a member of the IPA College of Research Fellows of the International Psychoanalytical Association.
Since 2005, Professor Dr. Giampieri-Deutsch has been a member of the previous IPA Psychoanalysis and the University Committee of the International Psychoanalytical Association and served as Chair of the European Subcommittee of the IPA Psychoanalysis and the University Committee from 2012 to 2017 until its ending due to the achievement of its objectives.
From 2002 to 2005, she was a member of the EPF Working Party on Interface Issues of the European Psychoanalytical Federation to investigate, plan and develop scientific and professional exchange with universities, hospitals and related professions until its ending due to the achievement of its objectives.
AUSTRIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (ÖAW)
Since 2011, Professor Dr. Giampieri-Deutsch has been a Corresponding Member, and since 2013, she is a Full Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW).
She is a member of the Committee of Ethics of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (appointed 2014), and a member of the Commission of the History and Philosophy of Science of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) (appointed 2015) as well as a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the History of Medicine and Medical Humanities Working Group of this Commission.
Professor Dr. Giampieri-Deutsch is Scientific Director of the research-led (see above) Maimonides Lectures of the ÖAW (with Professor Dr. Hans-Dieter Klein, also a Full Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences). Part of the project is devoted to the establishment of the Archive Abrahamic Religions in Dialogue with Science and Society at the Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences. A further part of the project is focused on Hermann Cohen’s research and established the Hermann Cohen Lectures as well as a Working Group both at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW).
EDITORIAL BOARDS
Since 2012, she has been a member of the Editorial Board of The International Journal of Psychoanalysis and a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Trauma and Memory. European Review of Psychoanalysis and Social Science.
Since 2016, she has been a member of the Editorial Team of Sigmund Freuds Werke - Wiener Interdisziplinäre Kommentare (SFW-WIK), Vienna University Press, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (V&R) and Brill (A and D).
Since 2022, she has been a member of the Scientific Committee of the Bollettino Filosofico (I).
Since 2002, she has been reviewing for scientific organizations and publishers, as well as for the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), and the European Psychoanalytical Federation (EPF).
PUBLICATIONS AND SELECTED EDITION AND CO-EDITIONS
KRIS: https://kris.kl.ac.at/de/persons/patrizia-giampieri-deutsch/publications/
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In addition to numerous publications in scientific journals and books, she is the editor of the volumes Psychoanalysis in Dialogue of the Sciences. Vol. 1: European Perspectives (2002) and Vol. 2: Anglo-American Perspectives (2004), Psychoanalysis as an Empirical, Interdisciplinary Science (2005), Mind, Brain, Behavior: Sigmund Freud and the Modern Sciences (2009) and the new annotated edition Freud's Dynamic Structural Model of the Mental in the 21st Century. Introduction to Freud's The Ego and the Id. Sigmund Freud's Works. Vienna Interdisciplinary Commentaries (SFW-WIK). Vol. 4. Vienna University Press and V& R unipress (2020).
She is co-editor of The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sándor Ferenczi, 3 Vols. (1993-2000), which has been translated into five languages, Ferenczi's Turn in Psychoanalysis (1996, 2000) and of Sensory Perception. Mind and Matter (2012).
SELECTED LITERATURE ON
THE PREVIOUS IPA PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE UNIVERSITY COMMITTEE
- Giampieri-Deutsch, P. (2024). In its more than 20 years of existence, what contributions have Working Parties brought to psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic research? In New Tools for Psychoanalysis: Clinical Investigations and Psychoanalytic Training in the Working Parties, eds. R. Levy, B. Reith, M. G. Rudden, A. Fernández, N. Kulish, L. Bleger & I. Bayona Villegas. London & New York: Routledge, The New Library of Psychoanalysis, pp. 251-281.
- Giampieri-Deutsch, P. (2023). Psychoanalyse an der Universität: regionale und internationale Aspekte der Akademisierung. In Akademisierung der Psychotherapie. Aktuelle Entwicklungen, historische Annäherungen und internationale Perspektiven, eds. W. Datler, A. Drossos, E. Gornik & Ch. Korunka. Wien: Facultas-Verlag, pp. 469-483.
- Giampieri-Deutsch, P. (2023). Zur Verortung der Psychoanalyse in den Einteilungen der Wissenschaften. In Einheit oder Vielheit Über Methode und Gegenstand in der Geschichte und Philosophie der Wissenschaften, ed. H. Hunger. Reihe Forschung und Gesellschaft, Vol. 23. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, pp. 129-146.
- Giampieri-Deutsch, P. (2020). Die Relevanz der Wissenschaftsgeschichte für die Wissenschaftsphilosophie und ihre Wechselwirkungen am Beispiel der Psychoanalyse und ihrer Forschung. In Wozu Wissenschaftsgeschichte? Ziele und Wege, ed. H. Hunger Reihe Forschung und Gesellschaft, Vol. 16. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, pp. 39-55.
- Giampieri-Deutsch (2017). Anglo-amerikanische Modelle universitärer Forschung und Lehre der Psychoanalyse im Vergleich mit Kontinentaleuropäischen Modellen. In Psychoanalyse und Universität, ed. F. Lackner & H. Rössler-Schülein. Gießen: Psychosozial Verlag, pp. 115-129.
- Giampieri-Deutsch, P. (2010). Some remarks on psychoanalytic research and universities. International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 19, Issue 4: 210-217.
- Giampieri-Deutsch, P. (2004). Auswirkungen der Kooperation zwischen der analytischen Philosophie des Geistes und der Psychoanalyse auf die empirische psychoanalytische Forschung. In Psychoanalyse im Dialog der Wissenschaften. Anglo-amerikanische Perspektiven. Vol. 2, ed. P. Giampieri-Deutsch. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, pp. 80-91.
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS
First-person methodologies in psychotherapy research; correlations between results of psychometric and biometric investigations; history and philosophy of science especially of health sciences as well as psychodynamic and psychological disciplines as well as medical humanities; theories and investigation of subjective states of mind and psychological and psychodynamic aspects of religious experiences within the Abrahamic religions.