CV UNIV.-PROF.ⁱⁿ DR.ⁱⁿ PATRIZIA GIAMPIERI-DEUTSCH
PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOTHERAPY RESEARCH AND HEAD OF DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHODYNAMICS
KARL LANDSTEINER UNIVERSITY, 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 1^st of March 2016) at the Karl Landsteiner University Krems (A) and University Professor of Philosophy (Philosophy of Science) at the University of Vienna (A). 

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. 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).

Since 2016, Professor Dr. Giampieri-Deutsch is a member of the Commission for Equality and the Advancement of Women at the Karl Landsteiner University. Since 2023, she is the representative for Confessional Equality Issues on 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 10^th 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.

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. 
 

AUSTRIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (ÖAW)

• Since 2013, Professor Dr. Giampieri-Deutsch is a Full Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) and was a Corresponding Member from 2011 to 2013.
• Since 2026, she is a member of the Commission on Knowledge Production in Transition: Paradigm Shift and Global Exchange in Austria (WIGO).
• She has been a member of the Committee of Ethics of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2014-2025), and a member of the Commission of the History and Philosophy of Science of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) as well as a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the History of Medicine and Medical Humanities Working Group of this Commission (2015-2025).
• Since 2012, Professor Dr. Giampieri-Deutsch is Scientific Director of the research-led 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. 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).

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.
Since 2025, she is a member of the newly established committee of the International Psychoanalytical Association, the IPA Committee Psychoanalysis and the University.
She has been a member of the IPA-Psychoanalysis and the University Committee of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) (2005–2012) and its co-chair (2012–2017) until the Committee's objectives and tasks were achieved.
Since 2000, she has been and she is currently a member of the IPA-College of Research Fellows of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA). 
Professor Dr. Giampieri-Deutsch has been a member of the scientific EPF-Programme Committee of the European Psychoanalytical Federation (EPF) (2020-2023).
From 2002 to 2005, she was a member of the EPF Working Party on Interface Issues of the European Psychoanalytical Federation (EPF) for the investigation, planning and development of scientific exchange with universities, hospitals and related professions (until the tasks of the committee were fulfilled).
 

EDITORIAL BOARDS

• Since 2012, she is 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 is 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 / D). 
• Since 2021, she is a scientific advisor to the Interdisciplinary Psychoanalytical Forum (IPF) series – Conceptual Research in Dialogue with the Sciences, Psychosozial-Verlag (D). 
• Since 2022, she is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Bollettino Filosofico (I). 
• Since 2002, she is reviewing for scientific organizations and publishers, as well as for the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) (UK), and the European Psychoanalytical Federation (EPF) (B). 

PUBLICATIONS AND SELECTED EDITION AND CO-EDITIONS

KRIS: https://kris.kl.ac.at/de/persons/patrizia-giampieri-deutsch/publications/
GOOGLE SCHOLAR:https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=list_works&hl=de&hl=de&user=m-HZfpgAAAAJ&sortby=pubdate
RESEARCH GATE: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Univ-Profin-Drin-Giampieri-Deutsch/publications

EDITOR

• 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)
• Freud's Dynamic Structural Model of the Mental in the 21^st 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)
• Hermann Cohen: An Intellectual Approach for the 21^st Century. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, series Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science (with the contribution “Towards a ‘Common Ground’ for the Abrahamic Religions of the Contemporary World”) (2026) (forthcoming)

CO-EDITOR
 

• 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) 
• Sensory Perception. Mind and Matter (2012)
• Hostility towards Science and Scepticism about Science from a Historical and Philosophical Perspective. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, series Studies on the History and Philosophy of Science (2026) (with the contribution ‘The Consequences of Hostility towards Science and Scepticism about Science on Public Health’) (in press)

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 and of 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;
• Theoretical, clinical and empirical research into the correlation between religious beliefs/religious forms of living and health.