A university dedicated to the study of and preparation for psychotherapy!
Google News turned up this interesting little piece from the International Herald Tribune--
Seven decades after Sigmund Freud fled from the Nazis, Vienna has turned one of his dreams into reality: a university dedicated to psychotherapy.
Admissions to the university, named after the Austrian pioneer of psychoanalysis, have soared since it opened in late 2005.
"We're the first university worldwide to offer a complete psychotherapy degree, which Freud wrote about in 1928 as his great dream," said Alfred Pritz, founder and rector of the Sigmund Freud University. "We're realizing that now."
After an initial intake of some 40 students, the private college now has more than 500.
In the US, this kind of enterprise is all but impossible to imagine. The closest we come is Pacifica Graduate Institute, which is Jungian, but does not include an undergraduate component. Otherwise in most colleges and universities, psychotherapy is available as a field of study on the graduate level in clinical psychology and in clinical social work, but nearly always from the frame of cognitive behavioral therapy. Indeed, if one were to accept the current mainstream thinking in this country about psychotherapy, it is that CBT is the only valid approach. And Freud and Jung have been banished to history of psychology courses and to departments of religion and other disciplines which use Freudian and/or Jungian theory a a lens through which to view literature and the like.