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  • Austria - Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft, Vienna
  • Belgium - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven
  • Bulgaria - Global Initiative on Psychiatry, Sofia
  • Czech Republic - Centre for Mental Health Care Development, Prague
  • Finland - National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Helsinki
  • Germany - Heinrich Heine University, Duesseldorf
  • Greece - University Mental Health Research Institute, Athens
  • Hungary - Mental Disability Advocacy Center (MDAC), Budapest
  • Italy - University of Verona, Verona
  • Lithuania - University of Vilnius, Vilnius
  • Netherlands - Stichting Kenniscentrum Rehabilitatie, Amsterdam
  • Romania - Romanian Association of Community Psychiatry, Bucharest
  • Slovakia - Integra o.z., Michalovce
  • Turkey - Istanbul Medical Faculty, Istanbul
  • United Kingdom - King's College London, London
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Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

The Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf is a specialist clinical centre for psychiatry, psychosomatics, and psychotherapy as well as a university hospital.

It provides care for the residents of Düsseldorf (except for the northern districts) and administers far-reaching research tasks. The department for child and youth psychiatry and -psychotherapy is also responsible for the district of Mettmann.

Mission Statement

The tasks of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Düsseldorf comprise:

• To recognize illnesses, to heal and to prevent worsening, and to relieve medical conditions
• To provide medical, nursing and medical-rehabilitative services through in- and out-patient services as well as services divided between hospital and home
• To research and teach
• To provide medical further education
• To operate training facilities necessary for the hospital
• To execute measures of improvement and security

Treatment include a broad range of modern treatments offerings. Furthermore, many coworkers also work in various research groups to improve psychiatric and psychotherapeutical treatment.

The hospital provides 650 beds in a polyclinic and in different wards. Beside in-patient services, several day hospitals and out-patient services as a polyclinic and institutional and front end outpatient departments.

Provider of the hospital is the "Landschaftsverband Rhineland (LVR)" with residence in Cologne.

Team Members

• Wolfgang Gaebel, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry
• Harald Zäske, Dipl.-Psych., Psychologist

Contact

Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf
Bergische Landstr. 2
40629 Düsseldorf
Germany
Tel. +49/(0)211/922-2775
Fax. +49/(0)211/922-2780
Email: harald.zaeske(at)lvr.de
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