Clinic for Special Psychiatry, Social Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

• Psycho-organic disorders
• Schizophrenic disorders
• Affective disorders
• Neurotic disorders
• Personality disorders
• Acute crises
• Suicidal tendencies
• Psychiatric and somatic secondary diseases (comorbidities)

• Acute inpatient treatment
• Crisis intervention
• Depression treatment
• Optional services unit
• Mother-child treatment
• Early treatment of mental disorders
• Psychotherapy station
• Treatment of chronic mentally ill
• Day-hospital
• Private outpatient clinic
• Outpatient care institution
• Community psychiatric centres
• Assisted living
• Near-hospital residence
• Town house

• The Clinic for Special Psychiatry, Social Psychiatry and Psychotherapy is charged with the entire treatment chain, from acute care and crisis intervention via the special stations and day hospital to the outpatient department and the social psychiatric facilities (outpatient assisted living, residential homes, community psychiatric centres) and offers this way a unique range of treatments in the region. Another unique feature is the conceptualization and implementation of the “coordinating caregiver” project, whereby the treatment of chronically ill patients at the interfaces of inpatient admission and discharge is optimized.
• The clinic is the only one involved nationwide in a DAK project of the integrated care of depressed patients.

The Medical Director represents clinically and scientifically, a phenomenological-anthropological Psychiatry department. The related research is qualitative individual case research, with origins in the clinic, which retroacts there diagnostically and therapeutically. This clinical approach is based on an accurate initial diagnosis of psychopathology,
based on which both psychotherapeutic and neurobiological and psychopharmacological approaches are established.

Studies:

• Study Centre of the DFG research project “Internet-delivered intervention strategy for recurrent depression: Towards individualized disease management”, Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Psychotherapy research centre. Director of studies: Dr. Hans Kordy
• Participation in the research project “psychopathology, neuropsychological and neural correlates of mania symptoms”, Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Clinic for General Psychiatry. Director of studies: PD Dr. Dipl.-Psych. Klaus Kronmüller

• External project management for process optimization
• Professional de-escalation management

* The clinic was created in late 2008 as part of the restructuring of Centre for Mental Health