Sigmund Freud Institute

The declared aims of the Sigmund Freud Institute (SFI) are both research on social psychology/sociology, psychology and medicine/psychosomatic and also promotion of young scientists.

[1] The Sigmund Freud Institute past and present, has brought to fruition numerous research projects of a clinical, psychoanalytic, sociology-psychological or trans-disciplinary nature.

[4] Among its founders and staff were psychoanalysts like Karl Landauer, Heinrich Meng,[5] Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, Erich Fromm and Siegmund Fuchs (who later called himself S.H.

[8] After Mitscherlich left in 1976, the institute was headed successively by Clemens de Boor, Dieter Ohlmeier and Horst-Eberhard Richter, and Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber and Rolf Haubl.

Major figures teaching and researching at the SFI include Tobias Brocher, Hermann Argelander,[9] Alfred Lorenzer, Klaus Horn and Helmut Dahmer.

In 1995 the SFI was transformed into a public-law foundation and since then has dedicated itself exclusively to research, in close conjunction with the Universities of Frankfurt and Kassel.

Since 2016 the executive directors have been Vera King[10] (in the framework of a joint professorship for sociology and psychoanalytic social psychology with the University of Frankfurt),[11] Patrick Meurs (in the framework of a joint professorship for psychoanalysis with the University of Kassel),[12] and Heinz Weiß (chief physician at the Robert Bosch Hospital in Stuttgart [13]).