The research activities of the Sigmund-Freud-Institut can be differentiated into five research items. 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 Item I:
Social psychological analysis of the mental effects of cultural change (e.g. digitalization)
To Research Item I: The Quantified Life. Productive and Counterproductive Consequences of Quantification in the Digitally Optimizing Society
Scientific lead: Prof. Dr. Vera King (Goethe-Univ. & SFI; Sprecherin),
Prof. Dr. Benigna Gerisch (IPU Berlin), Prof. Dr. Hartmut Rosa (Jena).
Assisted by: Julia Schreiber (SFI), Ben Salfeld-Nebgen (IPU) u.a.;
Funded by: Volkswagenstiftung.
Funding line ‚Schlüsselthemen für Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft‘.
Duration: 02/2018–01/2023
„The Quantified Life“ Short version and publications
To Research Item I: Aporias of Perfection in Accelerated Societies
Current cultural change in self-concepts, relationship patterns and body practices (APAS)
Scientific lead: Prof. Dr. Vera King (Sprecherin), Prof. Dr. Benigna Gerisch (IPU), Prof. Dr. Hartmut Rosa (Jena).
Funded by: Volkswagenstiftung.
Assisted by: Julia Schreiber (SFI), Ben Salfeld-Nebgen (IPU) u.a.;
Duration: 12/2012-04/2018.
„APAS“ Short version and publications
To Research Item I: Gender-Typical Adolescent Presentation of Self and Body in Social Media
Scientific lead: Prof. Dr. Vera King, Dr. Susanne Benzel (SFI)
Assisted by: Simone Rassmann, student assistants Jana Kim und Arthur Polunin and the interns Tamara Schwertel und 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: 10/2017-04/2018.
To Research Item I: Biographical ‚optimization‘ of parenthood through reproductive medicine. Changes in Family Planning and Meaning of Gender
Scientific lead: Prof. Dr. Vera King, Dr. des. 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: 12/2018-08/2019
Research Item II:
Mental and psycho-social effects of flight and migration
To Research Item II (and V): 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 Krankenhaus Stuttgart
Project Coordination: Dr. Susanne Benzel
To Research Item II: Psychosozialer Verbund Rhein-Main (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: HMSI (Hess. Ministerium für Soziales und Integration)
www.psv-rhein-main.de
Duration: 12/2017 –
To Research Item II: Verlust, Trauma und Integration Begleitforschung zu den vier Zentren für psychosoziale Versorgung von Flüchtlingen in Hessen.
Scientific lead: Prof. Dr. Patrick Meurs, Dr. Jan Lohl
Assisted by: Simon Arnold, Andreas Jensen, Rana Zokai
Funded by: HMSI (Hess. Ministerium für Soziales und Integration)
Duration: 08/2018 – 12/2019
To Research Item II: Die soziale und psychische Bedeutung der Beziehung zu professionellen Betreuer/innen für Integrationswege und adoleszente Entwicklungen von unbegleiteten minderjährigen Flüchtlingen in vollstationären Jugendhilfeeinrichtungen (AUF – 2)
Scientific lead: Prof. Dr. Vera King und Mahsa Huston (ehem. Mitchell)
Funded by: Heidehof-Stiftung (Follow-up application)
Duration: 2019/2020, 3/2019 – 12 month
To Research Item II: Integrationswege und adoleszente Entwicklungen unbegleiteter minderjähriger Flüchtlinge in vollstationären Jugendhilfeeinrichtungen (AUF-1)
Scientific lead: Prof. Dr. Vera King und Mahsa Mitchell
Funded by: Heidehof-Stiftung.
Duration: 09.2017 – 03.2019
To Research Item II: Projekt ‚First-steps‘
Scientific lead: Prof. Dr. Patrick Meurs, Dr. Judith Lebiger-Vogel, Dr. des Constanze Rickmeyer; wiss. Mitarbeiterin: Korinna Fritzemeyer (Berlin) u.a. Scientific partner: IDEA-Zentrum, Anna-Freud-Institut, Vivantes Klinikum Neukölln
Funded by: Metzler-Stiftung, Follow-up-Study in planning.
To Research Item V: Psychoanalytisch orienterte Biographieforschung zu rechten Sozialisationsprozessen in der politischen „Mitte“
Scientific lead: Dr. Jan Lohl
Funded by: Stiftung für Psychoanalyse und Psychotherapie
Duration: 01.2019 – 01.2020
To Research Item V: The Third Generation – Scenic Memory of the Shoah
Scientific lead: Dr. Kurt Grünberg
Cooperations partner: Bildungsstätte Anne Frank
To Research Item V: Projekt: Szenisches Erinnern der Shoah. Zur transgenerationalen Tradierung extremen Traumas in Deutschland.
Scientific lead: Dr. Kurt Grünberg