Subject specific

The second part of the psychotherapy training in Austria is referred to as a subject specific . The first part is called Propaedeutic and consists of the same learning content for all students. The second part, on the other hand, represents school-specific training and, according to the Psychotherapy Act of 1990, contains the following content:

theory

The theoretical part comprises at least 300 hours, at least of which

• 60 hours of theory of healthy and psychopathological personality development
• 100 hours of methodology and technology
• 50 hours of personality and interaction theories
• 40 hours of psychotherapeutic literature.

practice

The practical part of at least 1,600 hours each includes at least

• 200 hours of teaching therapy, training analysis, individual or group self-awareness
• 400 hours of psychosocial internship in dealing with behavioral and suffering people in a health or social care facility
• 150 hours of clinical internship in dealing with behavioral as well as suffering people in a hospital
• 30 hours of accompanying participation in a subject-specific internship supervision, as well as
• 600 hours of psychotherapeutic work with behavioral or suffering people
• 120 hours of accompanying subject-specific supervision, as well
• 100 hours for a focus depending on the method-specific orientation

23 different methods are currently approved for the psychotherapeutic specialist course . As a result, the traditional schools and providers that are approved in Austria are listed.

Depth psychological-psychodynamic orientation

Psychoanalytic Methods

Analytical psychology according to Carl Gustav Jung Austrian Society for Analytical Psychology Group psychoanalysis ÖAGG Vienna IAG courses in Altaussee Individual psychology according to Alfred Adler Austrian Association for Individual Psychology SFU master’s degree

Psychoanalysis according to Sigmund Freud Vienna Psychoanalytic Association Vienna working group for psychoanalysis Vienna Circle for Psychoanalysis and Self Psychology Salzburg working group for psychoanalysis Psychoanalytic Seminar Innsbruck Innsbruck working group for psychoanalysis Working group for psychoanalysis Linz / Graz Psychoanalytically Oriented Psychotherapy (POP)

Methods based on depth psychology

Autogenic psychotherapy

• ÖGATAP

Analysis of existence

Dynamic group psychotherapy

• ÖAGG Vienna

Hypnosis psychotherapy

• ÖGATAP

Katathym Imaginative Psychotherapy

• ÖGATAP

Concentrative exercise therapy

• Danube University Krems Master of Science

Transaction analysis

• Transaction Analysis Working Group
• Danube University Krems Master of Science

Humanistic schools

Existential analysis and logotherapy

• ABILE Catfish
• Danube University Krems Master of Science

Existential analysis

• GLE Vienna

Gestalt theory psychotherapy

• ÖAGP

Integrative Gestalt Therapy

• Institute for Integrative Gestalt Therapy Vienna
• ÖAGG Vienna
• Danube University Krems Master of Science
• SFU master’s degree

Integrative Therapy

• Danube University Krems Master of Science

Psychotherapy according to Carl Rogers: Client-centered and person-centered psychotherapy

• ÖGwG Linz
• APG Vienna
• VRP Vienna
• Danube University Krems Master of Science
• SFU master’s degree

Psychodrama

• ÖAGG Vienna
• Danube University Krems Master of Science
• University of Innsbruck

Systemic orientation

Systemic family therapy

• ÖAGG Vienna, curricula in Vienna, Graz and Hofen Palace
• School for systemic family therapy of the Archdiocese of Vienna
• ÖAS with curricula in Graz, Innsbruck, Salzburg and Vienna
• SFU master’s degree

Neuro-Linguistic Psychotherapy

Behavioral therapy orientation

Behavior therapy

• Austrian Society for Behavioral Therapy
• Institute for Behavioral Therapy Vienna
• AVM Salzburg