Research at the Department of Psychotherapy Science in Linz

The Linz Institute for Basic and Methodological Research in Psychotherapy Science (LIGA) is a research institute of SFU’s Faculty of Psychotherapy Science and organises, documents and communicates the research achievements of the Linz Department of Psychotherapy Science. Learn more…

Contact:

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Stephenson
thomas.stephenson@sfu.ac.at

Research at the Faculty of Psychotherapy Science

Sigmund Freud Private University (SFU) is a unique institution that pioneered psychotherapy science as an academic programme and has thereby taken a lead in developing psychotherapy research. The emerging academic discipline of psychotherapy science is characterised by a state-of-the-art mixed methods design of qualitative and quantitative research that corresponds to the peculiarity of the research object. Keeping a balance between openness towards individual research interests and developing a coordinated approach in terms of a research profile is challenging in the vast area of open research questions in psychotherapy science. Offering psychotherapy science as an academic discipline at SFU bridges the gap between psychotherapy science research and psychotherapeutic practice, visible in the close cooperation of research and teaching at the Faculty of Psychotherapy Science.

Cross-method Research 

Since the SFU’s accreditation in 2005, a line of psychotherapy science research has emerged which, due to the SFU’s unique position, opens the door for research across various psychotherapeutic methods that goes beyond method-specific effectiveness research and allows a differential approach to various treatment methods. In this context, the SFU’s Psychotherapeutic Outpatient Clinic provides extensive qualitative and quantitative data. At the same time, psychotherapy training research can be carried out. 

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Contact

Ass.-Prof. Dr. Martin Kuška, Ph.D.
Vice-Dean Research
Faculty of Psychotherapy Science
Sigmund Freud Private University
martin.kuska@sfu.ac.at