Division of Psychodynamics

Subjectivity and mental life

Contemporary psychodynamic research is devoted to clinical, empirical, philosophy of science, and inter- and multidisciplinary approaches. It examines the mode of action and efficacy of the clinical application of its psychodynamic theoretical assumptions, its research methodologies, and its clinical treatment techniques, and the application of these to nonclinical phenomena and branches of knowledge.

Psychodynamic psychotherapy research

The methodologies applied are correspondingly broad. In an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary way, the psychodynamic direction strives to take into account the results and methodologies of neighboring disciplines (such as cognitive sciences and neurobiology). 

However, as a unique selling point of the Professorship of Psychotherapy Research and the Division of Psychodynamics, the following should be mentioned:

• the first-person theories and first-person methodologies of psychodynamic psychotherapy research
• the applied psychotherapy research that has emerged from it.

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