The research activities of the Sigmund Freud Institute can be differentiated into four research areas. In all the ongoing projects the SFI tries to take up the specific tradition of this famous institution and to integrate it with challenges of a contemporary psychoanalytic research institute.
Research Area I:
Social psychological analysis of cultural changes: e.g. digitization, optimizing
Scientific lead: Prof. Dr. Vera King (Goethe-Univ. & SFI; speaker),
Prof. Dr. Benigna Gerisch (IPU Berlin), Prof. Dr. Hartmut Rosa (Jena)
Assisted by: Dr. Julia Schreiber (SFI), Ben Salfeld-Nebgen (IPU) i.a.
Funded by: Volkswagen Foundation, Funding line ‚Key issues for science and society‘
Duration: 02/18 – 01/23
Scientific lead: Prof. Dr. Vera King (Goethe-Univ. & SFI; speaker), Prof. Dr. Benigna Gerisch (IPU Berlin), Prof. Dr. Hartmut Rosa (Jena)
Funded by: Volkswagen Foundation
Assisted by: Dr. Julia Schreiber (SFI), Ben Salfeld-Nebgen (IPU) i.a.
Duration: 12/12 – 04/18
Gender-Typical Adolescent Presentation of Self and Body in Social Media
Scientific lead: Prof. Dr. Vera King (Goethe-Univ. & SFI; speaker), Dr. Susanne Benzel (SFI)
Assisted by: Simone Rassmann
Student assistants: Jana Kim and Arthur Polunin and the interns Tamara Schwertel and Laila Hamdi
Funded by: Equal Opportunities Office of Goethe University Frankfurt and Dean’s office of the department of Social Sciences, Funding line ‚Small Gender Projects‘ for the promotion of young researchers
Duration: 10/17 – 04/18
Scientific lead: Prof. Dr. Vera King (Goethe-Univ. & SFI; speaker), Dr. Julia Schreiber (Goethe-Univ. & SFI)
Funded by: Equal Opportunities Office of Goethe University Frankfurt and Deanery of Department 03, Funding line ‚Small Gender Projects‘ for the promotion of young researchers
Duration: 10/20 – 12/21
Scientific lead: Dr. Susanne Benzel (SFI) in cooperation with Alice Graneist (GU, Institute for Psychology),
Funded by: Anna-Freud-Institute/Support association
Duration: 11/20 – 04/22
Research Area II:
Mental and psycho-social effects of flight and migration
DOCTORAL RESEARCH PROGRAM:
»Psycho-Social Impacts of Migration and Flight – Generational Dynamics and Adolescent Processes« at the Sigmund Freud Institute Frankfurt/M. (SFI)
Supervision:
Prof. Dr. Vera King (Speaker): SFI & Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
Prof. Dr. Hans-Christoph Koller: University Hamburg
Prof. Dr. Patrick Meurs: SFI & University Kassel
Prof. Dr. Heinz Weiß: SFI & Univ. Tübingen, Robert Bosch Hospital Stuttgart
Project coordination: Dr. Susanne Benzel
Psychosocial Association Rhine-Main – Help for refugees (PSV)
Scientific lead: Prof. Dr. Patrick Meurs in cooperation with AFI, ERV, FATRA and FPI
Assisted by: Hauke Witzel, Sima Saligheh, Raem Abd-Al-Majeed, Corinna Poholski, Patrick Stier
Funded by: Hessian Ministry for Social Affairs and Integration
www.psv-rhein-main.de
Duration: 12/17 – 12/21
Intervals of arrival – Zwischenräume des Ankommens (ZA-Projekt)
Follow-up project to ‚Loss, trauma and integration Accompanying research on the four centers of psychosocial care for refugees in Hesse‘
Scientific lead: Prof. Dr. Patrick Meurs
Assisted by: Dipl.-Psych. Simon Arnold, MA Soz. Andreas Jensen, Dipl.-Psych. Magdalena Kuhn, B.Sc. Psych. Rana Zokai
Funded by: Hessian Ministry for Social Affairs and Integration
Duration: 01/20 – 12/22
Loss, trauma and integration Accompanying research on the four centers of psychosocial care for refugees in Hesse
Scientific lead: Prof. Dr. Patrick Meurs, Dr. Jan Lohl
Assisted by: Simon Arnold, Andreas Jensen, Rana Zokai
Funded by: Hessian Ministry for Social Affairs and Integration
Duration: 08/18 – 12/19
Scientific lead: Prof. Dr. Vera King and Mahsa Huston (former Mitchell)
Funded by: Heidehof Foundation (Follow-up application)
Duration: 10/20 – 09/21
Scientific lead: Prof. Dr. Vera King and Mahsa Mitchell (former Mitchell)
Funded by: Heidehof Foundation
Duration: 09/17 – 03/19
Scientific lead: Prof. Dr. Patrick Meurs, Dr. Judith Lebiger-Vogel, Dr. des Constanze Rickmeyer
Research associate: Korinna Fritzemeyer (Berlin) i.a.
Scientific partner: IDeA centre, Anna-Freud-Institute, Vivantes Hospital Neukölln
Funded by: Metzler Foundation, Follow-up-Study in planning.
Research Area III:
Research on psychotherapy (therapy, prevention, evaluation) + research on concept for clinical and theoretical psychoanalyse
MuKi – Investigation of emotional expectation and evaluation processes in children aged 9-11 years
Scientific lead: Prof. Dr. Tamara Fischmann, Prof. Dr. Patrick Meurs
Assisted by: Dipl.-Psych. Felicitas Hug (SFI)
Funded by: IDeA centre
Duration: 07/19 – 07/21
Scientific lead: Prof. Dr. Tamara Fischmann
Assisted by: Margarete Schött
Scientific partner: Goethe University Frankfurt.
Funded by: DFG
Duration: until 12/18
OPD (Operationalized Psychodynamic Diagnostic) combined with findings of the LAC-Study
Scientific lead: PD Dr. Ulrich Bahrke
Psychodynamic therapy of obsessive-compulsive disorder PDT-OCD
Scientific lead: Prof. Dr. Heinz Weiß
Assisted by: Dr. phil. Lorena Asseburg, Dr. Phil. Constanze Rickmeyer, MSc Psych. Annabelle Starck i.a.
Scientific partner: University Hospital Gießen; Prof. Dr. F. Leichsenring.
Funded by: Heidehof Foundation, DGPT
Duration: until 2021
BAPAS – Attachment Trauma in Adoptive and Foster Children – A Psychoanalytic Therapy Study
Scientific lead: Dr. Judith Lebiger-Vogel, Dr. Constanze Rickmeyer
Funded by: IDeA centre
Duration: 08/20 – 12/21 (expected)
Scientific lead: Prof. Dr. Patrick Meurs in cooperation with Dr. A. Staufenberg, Anna-Freud-Institute
Funded by: City of Frankfurt (ongoing)
Scientific lead: Prof. Dr. Patrick Meurs, Prof. Dr. Tamara Fischmann
Project coordination: M.Sc. Psych. Tom Degen
Research associate: Dipl.-Psych. Felicitas Hug
Assisted by: Terry Meyer
Funded by: IDeA centre
Duration: 09/20 – 08/21
Post-inpatient aftercare of psycho symtomatic patients – Model project for transition to working life
Scientific lead: Nora Alsdorf, Prof. Dr. Heinz Weiß, Prof. Dr. Vera King
Funded by: Heidehof Foundation
Duration: 01/18 –
Research Area IV:
Authoritarianism, antisemitism, extremism, consequences of the Nazi era
The Third Generation – Scenic Memory of the Shoah
Scientific lead: Dr. Kurt Grünberg
Assisted by: Dipl.-Psych. Simon E. Arnold, Dipl.-Psych. Lena Dierker, Sc. Psych. Tom David Uhlig
Scientific advisory board: Prof. Dr. Patrick Meurs, Prof. Dr. Astrid Messerschmidt
Cooperations partner: Anne Frank Educational Centre
Duration: pilot study: 2017; main study: 2019 – 2021
Scientific lead: Dr. Kurt Grünberg
Co-lead: Dr. med. Friedrich Markert
Doctoral candidates: Dipl.-Psych. Jasmin Bleimling, M. A. Veronika Heller
Assisted by: Dipl.-Psych. Lena Dierker
Funded by: Köhler Foundation (Essen), Crespo Foundation (Frankfurt a. M.), Polytechnic Society Foundation (Frankfurt a. M.)
Duration: 2012 – 2015
Psychoanalytically oriented biography research on right socialization processes in the political „center“
Scientific lead: Dr. Jan Lohl
Funded by: Foundation for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
Duration: 01/19 – 01/20