There is a glaring research gap and a resulting care gap (no mention in the treatment guidelines without research) for the psychodynamic treatment of patients with psychosis. Our care system has insurmountable gaps for people with complex treatment needs. Research and care pathways are being established to build bridges. The focus here is on the transition from inpatient to outpatient treatment or on a setting in which the person with schizophrenic psychosis is cared for, accompanied and treated by many professions, but psychotherapy does not take place, which is almost the rule for severely and complexly mentally ill people.
For this reason, a psychotherapeutic outpatient clinic focusing on patients with (mainly schizophrenic and schizoaffective) psychoses is being established at the IPU in cooperation with the Psychiatric University Clinic of the Charité at St. Hedwig Hospital (PUK Charité at St. Hedwig Hospital). The aim is to provide psychotherapeutic treatment for psychosis patients that is in line with guidelines but is too often unattainable.
The project makes a contribution to overcoming the separation between psychoanalysis and psychiatry by allowing guideline psychotherapy to be considered and applied in the inpatient area and securing the outpatient structures through inpatient support.
Integrative psychosis psychotherapy is analyzed and evaluated as part of care, process and outcome research at the IPU.
Original language: German