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Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health
Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health
Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health (Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene e.V., “IGPP”), founded in 1950 by Prof. Dr. Hans Bender, is engaged in systematic and interdisciplinary research into phenomena and anomalies at the frontiers of our knowledge that have been insufficiently understood to date. These include exceptional human experiences, altered states of consciousness, psychophysical relationships and their social, cultural and historical contexts from the perspectives of the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences.
The IGPP also maintains a broad-based information service, as well as an information and counceling program for people with exceptional – “paranormal” – experiences (“mental health”). In addition, IGPP maintains a research archive for parapsychology and frontiers areas of psychology and, in close cooperation with the Freiburg University Library, an extensive research library.
The IGPP is ideologically neutral and institutionally independent. It cooperates with numerous universities and research institutions in Germany and abroad and participates in the training of students and doctoral candidates.
As a non-profit organization, it is mainly financed by private foundations.
