Centre for Psychosocial Medicine

The clinic is part of the Centre for Psychosocial Medicine and is centrally located in the Old Clinic (near Bismarckplatz) in Heidelberg. We treat patients with affective disorders, all forms of psychotic illness, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders, personality and memory disorders and addiction on eight disorder-specific wards, both regionally and nationally. Together with the Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the clinic runs a centre for the early detection and treatment of adolescents, a mother/father-child ward for mentally ill pregnant women and parents after birth, a day clinic for medium and long-term rehabilitative therapy, an internal day clinic for affective disorders and for older people, as well as various disorder-specific outpatient services.

The Clinic for General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics is the oldest psychosomatic clinic in Germany and stands for psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy at the highest level. The department is integrated with wards and outpatient clinics in both the Centre for Internal Medicine (Krehl-Klinik in the Neuenheim district) and the Centre for Psychosocial Medicine (Altklinikum in the Bergheim district) of the University Hospital. This offers excellent opportunities for therapeutic treatment of the entire spectrum of illnesses that arise from the interplay of physical, mental and social factors. The treatment spectrum ranges from psychological, often stress-related illnesses that primarily manifest themselves in physical symptoms (e.g. irritable bowel syndrome) to physical illnesses (e.g. cancer, cardiovascular diseases) that subsequently lead to stressful anxiety or depression.The common goal of the sites is to offer psychosomatic-psychotherapeutic treatment to the highest quality standards and at university level. Care is provided on a total of four wards, two day clinics, an evening clinic and in several general and specialised outpatient clinics.