Univ.-Prof. Dr. Patrizia Giampieri-Deutsch
Head of
Division of Psychodynamics
w.M. Univ.-Prof.in Dr.in habil. Patrizia Giampieri-Deutsch is University Professor of Psychotherapy Research and Head of the Department of Psychodynamics (appointed on March 1, 2016) at the Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences Krems and University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Vienna.
She has been a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) since 2011 and a full member since 2013, a member of the Commission for the Ethics of Science since 2014 and a member of the Commission for the History and Philosophy of Science of the ÖAW since 2015 (election: October 16, 2015) and a member of the scientific advisory board of its History of Medicine and Medical Humanities working group.
Univ.-Prof.in Dr.in habil. Giampieri-Deutsch is a clinical psychoanalyst, teaching analyst and supervisor of the Vienna Psychoanalytical Association (WPV) and the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA).
She has been a member of the six-member scientific committee of the European Psychoanalytical Federation (EPF) since 2020 and a member of the IPA College of Research Fellows of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) since 2000.
w.M. Univ.-Prof.in Dr.in habil. Giampieri-Deutsch is with w.M. em. O. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Hans-Dieter Klein scientific director of the Maimonides Lectures of the ÖAW, which are celebrating their 10th anniversary this year.
The project Psychological and psychodynamic aspects of religious experiences in the frame of reference of the Abrahamic religions PROJECT K3-F-730/001-2017 and its continuation K3-F-730/006-2022, funded by the Province of Lower Austria, were developed in the spirit of responsible science of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF), Science and Research (BMBWF) on the one hand and 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, Princeton University on the other.
Part of the project is the establishment of a work in progress archive Abrahamic Religions in Dialogue with Science and Society.
Another part of the project is Hermann Cohen research with the establishment of a working group and the Hermann Cohen Lectures, both at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Cohen's concept of a "religion of reason" represents a subtle refutation of the fundamentalisms that undermine the common ground of the Abrahamic religions and their dialog with the world religions as well as the democratic constitutional state.
Since 2016, w.M. Univ.-Prof.in Dr.in habil. Giampieri-Deutsch has been a member of the Commission for Gender Equality and the Advancement of Women at the Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences and on 25.01.2023 she was entrusted with the function of Commissioner for Confessional Equal Treatment Issues by the Rector and Chairman of the Commission for Gender Equality and the Advancement of Women, Prof. Dr. med.
w.M. Univ.-Prof.in Dr.in habil. Giampieri-Deutsch is a member of the Vienna Doctoral School of Philosophy (VDP). Since 2000, she has been authorised to supervise doctoral candidates and has continuously held seminars for doctoral candidates. In 2024, w.M. Univ.-Prof.in Dr.in habil. Giampieri-Deutsch was elected to two committees of the University of Vienna, the Vienna Doctoral School of Theology and Research on Religion (VDTR) and the Research Center Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society.
Since 2020 she has been a member of the International Board del Dottorato di Studi Umanistici dell'Università della Calabria.
She has been a member of the IPA Psychoanalysis and the University Committee of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) since 2005 and was its Co-Chair from 2012 to 2017 until the Committee's duties were fulfilled. From 2002 to 2005 she was a member of the EPF Working Party on Interface Issues of the European Psychoanalytical Federation (EPF) to investigate, plan and develop scientific and professional exchange with universities, hospitals and related professions (until the Committee was dissolved due to the achievement of its objectives).
Since 2012, she has been a member of the Editorial Board of The International Journal of Psychoanalysis and 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, Verlagsgruppe Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht and Brill (A and D), since 2021 she has been a scientific advisor to the series Interdisziplinäres Psychoanalytisches Forum (IPF) - Konzeptforschung im Dialog der Wissenschaften, Psychosozial-Verlag (D) and since 2022 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).
In addition to numerous publications in scientific journals and books, she is the editor of Psychoanalysis in Dialogue of the Sciences. Vol. 1: European Perspectives and Vol. 2: Anglo-American Perspectives (2002-2004), 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 have been translated into five languages, Ferenczi's Turn in Psychoanalysis (1996, 2000) and Sensory Perception. Mind and Matter (2012).
Current research interests: Theories and investigation of subjective mental states especially psychological and psychodynamic aspects of religious experiences in the Abrahamic religions; first-person methodologies in psychotherapy research; correlations between results of psychometric and biometric investigations; history and philosophy of science especially of health sciences and psychodynamic and psychological disciplines as well as medical humanities.
