Psychology  at the International Psychoanalytic University Berlin represents a theory of science and knowledge, one that is located between the natural sciences and the humanities, cultural studies and social sciences, and which connects these lines of tradition in an innovative, forward-thinking manner.

Career Prospects

Our master’s program is a unique and multi-layered study course that will prepare you for an equally diverse career and professional life. The study course’s clinical direction, which focuses on psychodynamic and psychoanalytic approaches, additionally provides solid education and training in research methods. At the same time, this is broadened on a fundamental level with in-depth knowledge from non-clinical application areas of psychological and psychoanalytic thinking.

Our aim at the IPU Berlin is to make you familiar with the whole spectrum of discourse, so that the greatest possible range of professional options and perspectives are open to you afterwards. The intention of the course is to enable you to work independently as a clinical psychologist, to further your scientific or academic studies and to pursue a university or higher education.

While this degree does not qualify international students to work as a psychological psychotherapist in Germany after graduation, students can take “German as a foreign language” (DaF) courses at IPU and continue their studies in the German psychology program.

Unique Features

• Studying at the sole German university for psychoanalysis
• Psychoanalysis is not only seen as a psychotherapeutic method, but also as a cultural theory and applied social science
• Multi-layered and interdisciplinary study course
• Learn in small groups with in-depth interaction between lecturing staff and students

Why study at IPU Berlin

• Practice and research play a major role: many of our professors work as psychoanalysts or psychotherapists and contribute their practical knowledge to teaching.
• Benefit from our network of universities in Europe and around the world: transfer to one of our partner universities for an internship or an entire semester.
• IPU ranks best for psychology studies in Berlin according to the CHE Ranking 2022, marking its third consecutive top rating since 2016 and 2019.

Accreditation

All degree courses are state-recognized by the Senate Chancellery for Science and accredited by the ACQUIN agency.

Courses include:

• Reflexive Psychology and Theoretical Psychoanalysis

• Social Psychology Studies

• Developmental Psychology, Developmental Psychopathology and Studies of Disorder

• Diagnosis and Intervention

• Methods of Practice-Orientated Research