The Department of Psychotherapy Science is celebrating the winter semester 2024/25 with around 330 students. We are pleased that more and more international students are including the “SFUniversitas”. The greatest demand at PTW Berlin is for continuing education: the postgraduate psychotherapy training programs under the old law and for the new 6-semester, part-time continuing education master’s degree in clinical art therapy.
In accordance with the psychotherapist training reform system, the Department of Psychotherapy Science is now fully equipped with consecutive teaching in the undergraduate direct study program in psychotherapy on the one hand and the new continuing education program to become a specialist psychotherapist from 2025, which follows the PTW licensing program.
The PTW Department is located at Tempelhof Airport and with the Psychotherapeutic Institute and the – now spatially expanded & structurally fully developed, KVermächtigte – Teaching & Research Outpatient Clinic for Children, Adolescents & Adults directly at Platz der Luftbrücke.
Art Therapy Conference 2024 | We would like to express our sincere thanks for the intensive and exciting conference as part of the semester kick-off. We would like to thank the renowned speakers for their well-founded contributions, the expert participants, the PTW Psychotherapy & MA Art Therapy students at SFU Berlin, the external guests of the Berliner Woche Seelische Gesundheit for the enormous interest and above all the many helping hands. As part of the Hybrid Hörer*innen*schaft, the SFU KT department welcomed over 140 participants in person and at peak times over 220 online participants.
Art Therapy Conference 2024 - Impressions
Photogallery | Enrique H. Herrero, Platz der Luftbrücke | photo.berlin.st
It became clear that daydreams are an expression of creativity and promote thinking. The contributions elaborated on the fact that imaginations can lead us to our own self and contribute to mental health. Art therapy and imaginative processes (KIP) have common points of contact. This applies above all to the creative process of the method and to painting or looking at pictures. The conference shed light on the different perspectives on working with daydreaming and the special approach taken by art therapy for health prevention and (public) mental health.
In addition, similarities and respective (also study- & training-relevant) specifics between professional university psychotherapy and psychotherapists as members of an independent regulated academic health profession vs. the professionalization and academization process of art therapy and clinical art therapists as members of a targeted independent health profession were negotiated.
Review | The contributions will be published in 2025 in a conference volume by Nomos Verlag.
Exhibition in the winter semester 2024/25 at THF | On the occasion of Mental Health Week, 24 students of the Master’s degree program in Art Therapy are exhibiting their art under the motto “Art & Imagination – Daydreams in Art Therapy” on the premises of SFU Berlin. The exhibition runs in the winter semester 2024/25 (until the end of March). Under “Student Projects” you can find the video presentation of the exhibition by Selina Grädler, Santana Krause, Susan Teege, Nico Ihlein & Ayse Frensch.