German Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Neurology

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German Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Neurology
(DGPPN)
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legal form registered association
founding 1842
Seat Berlin
purpose Scientific association for psychiatry , psychotherapy , psychosomatics and neurology
Chair Andreas Heinz (2019-2020)
Members approx. 9600
Website www.dgppn.de

The German Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Neurology e. V. (DGPPN) is a scientific medical society with around 9000 members. The membership consists of specialists in psychiatry and psychotherapy as well as doctors, psychologists and scientists who work in Germany in the fields of psychiatry , psychotherapy , psychosomatics and neurology.

Convinced that psychiatry, psychotherapy, psychosomatics and neurology both promote science and research and promote public health and public health care, the association is convinced that they belong together .

history

The development of psychiatry as an independent science and specialty is closely linked in Germany with the history of the specialist society and the psychiatric journals .

The term psychiatry goes back to the physician Johann Christian Reil (1759-1813) from Halle. The first documented efforts to organize psychiatrists in Germany can be found in 1827 in a memorandum by Joseph Ennemoser (Bonn) and Wilhelm Ruer (Marburg), who called for the establishment of an association to improve practical psychiatry. This initiative remained initially - u. a. unsuccessful due to the still low representation of psychiatry at the medical faculties (the first chair for psychiatry was established in Leipzig in 1811).

The Pro Memoria to Germany's insane doctors (1841) by Heinrich Damerow , professor of medicine and director of the insane asylum in Halle , can be seen as the founding document of today's DGPPN. The year 1842, when 72 people came together to prepare this specialist journal to form the Society of Germany's “Insane Physicians”, is considered to be the actual year the society was founded.

In 1846 a psychiatric section was formed for the first time at the meeting of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors founded in Kiel in 1822, and in 1860 the first independent conference of psychiatrists took place in Eisenach. The society received its first statutes in 1864 and has since called itself the "Association of German Insane Doctors", whose first president was Carl Friedrich Flemming . In 1903 the society was named "German Association for Psychiatry (DVP)". By the First World War the association had 550 members. A first ordinary annual meeting after the end of the First World War took place in Hamburg in 1920, where Karl Bonhoeffer (Berlin) was elected chairman and remained so through re-election with interruptions until 1934.

time of the nationalsocialism

After the National Socialists came to power, the DVP was forcibly united and brought into line with the “ Society of German Neurologists ”, which was established between 1906 and 1907 and held its first annual meeting in Dresden on September 14, 1907, to form the “ Society of German Neurologists and Psychiatrists ”, chaired by Ernst Rüdin (Munich) held until 1945. The darkest chapter of German psychiatry falls during this period: the psychiatrists who had been declared “Jewish” or “socialist” lost their work base and were driven into emigration. The vast majority of those who stayed in Germany were deported to concentration and extermination camps. Psychiatrists (including the aforementioned Ernst Rüdin) were instrumental in the compulsory sterilization of more than 360,000, mainly mentally ill people. The financial resources for housing and treatment for the chronically ill have been drastically reduced. Finally, between 1939 and 1945, again with the significant involvement of psychiatrists - including ordinaries and institution directors - in the German Reich and the occupied territories, at least 400,000 mentally ill and disabled people were classified as "life unworthy of life" and victims of systematic killing of the sick ("euthanasia").

Reorganization after 1945

In the period of reconstruction after 1945, there was a shortage of young people. In September 1947 Ernst Kretschmer invited to the neurologist and psychiatrist conference in Tübingen, followed a year later by the “Annual Meeting of German Neurologists and Psychiatrists” in Marburg. The GDNP was re-established and Ernst Kretschmer, who was involved in hereditary health policy in the Third Reich, was appointed to the Emergency Board. In 1949 the society was divided into 4 sections according to its new statutes: Psychiatry, Neurology, Psychotherapy with Medical Psychology and Neurosurgery. In 1954 the "German Society for Psychiatry and Neurology" (DGPN) was founded in Baden-Baden as the successor organization to the DVP at the 70th hiking meeting of south-west German neurologists. In 1955, the Association of German Neurologists was established as the successor to the Society of German Neurologists and Psychiatrists.

The "Society for Neurology and Psychiatry" which existed in the former GDR, from which the "Society for Psychiatry and Neurology in the GDR" had briefly emerged before reunification, finally dissolved in 1991. The board members were co-opted by the DGPN. In 1992 the DGPN was renamed the “German Society for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Neurology” (DGPPN), and finally in 2012 the addition of the subject of psychosomatics expanded the company's name to “German Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Neurology” (still DGPPN ) to experience.

Coming to terms with the past

In 2009, as part of an amendment to the statutes, the DGPPN acknowledged its special responsibility, which arose from the involvement of its predecessor organizations in the crimes of National Socialism, in mass murders of the sick and forced sterilization. In 2010 she initiated a research project on the “History of the German Association for Psychiatry, or the Society of German Neurologists and Psychiatrists during the National Socialist Period”. In 2015 the association put out a second research contract. This is to investigate the time after 1945 to 1970.

organization

Central organs are the general assembly, the board, the departments and the advisory board. Members of related professional associations are also involved in the board, such as the Professional Association of German Neurologists and the Professional Association of German Psychiatrists . In addition, the “Trialogical Forum”, an advisory board for relatives and those affected, has existed since 2015, which accompanies the work of the DGPPN through direct feedback on current activities and topics.

The more than 30 specialist presentations each deal with a specific topic within the subject. You follow the state of scientific research and contribute to the work of the board and help shape the congresses. The presentations make their topics and work priorities known to a broader public through the publication of specialist journals and the organization of events.

The President is Andreas Heinz , Past President Arno Deister and President Elect Thomas Pollmächer.

President

aims

The goals include:

  • research into the fundamentals of mental disorders as well as the improvement of diagnostics and therapy
  • the prevention of mental disorders
  • the maintenance and expansion of the existing supply structures
  • the support of those affected and their relatives
  • the promotion of psychiatric-psychotherapeutic training, further education and training
  • the profiling of the field of psychiatry and psychotherapy
  • the creation of evidence-based guidelines and scientific statements
  • advising politics and society as well as educating the public about mental disorders and their treatment options
  • the support of the members of the professional society

These tasks and the purpose of the association are followed by scientific events (congresses, events) and regular publishing activities. The company's scientific events are generally accessible to the general public. Particular attention is paid to the implementation and support of activities in education, training and further education in the field of psychiatry, psychotherapy, psychosomatics and neurology. In addition, the company continuously publishes statements and guidelines on relevant and current issues in the field, health care and public health care.

congress

The society organizes a scientific congress once a year in Berlin, which with 9,000-10,000 participants is the largest of its kind in Europe. In 2017 the DGPPN also hosted the World Psychiatric Congress organized by the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) with 11,000 participants.

Promotion of young talent

The “Generation PSY” initiative aims to arouse young people's interest in psychiatry and psychotherapy. A team of medical students, advanced training assistants and medical specialists is involved in the professional society's work with young people and is intended to connect the generations with one another. It is aimed specifically at medical students and interns. An associated internet platform offers information and is intended to contribute to digital networking and better knowledge transfer. Specific activities include, for example, summer schools, a mentoring program or intensive courses for the specialist examination.

Magazines

Publications

  • Iris Hauth, Peter Falkai, Arno Deister (Eds.): Psyche, Mensch, Gesellschaft. Medical Scientific Publishing Company, Berlin 2017
  • Frank Schneider, Peter Falkai, Wolfgang Maier: Psychiatry 2020 plus. Perspectives, opportunities and challenges. Springer, Berlin 2012.

Awards

  • Wilhelm Griesinger Medal (honor for outstanding services in the field of psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatics)
  • DGPPN Prize for Research into Mental Illnesses
  • DGPPN award for predictive, preventive and personalized medicine in psychiatry and neurology - for innovative psychopharmacotherapy research
  • DGPPN Promotion Prize - Hans Heimann Prize
  • DGPPN Prize for Health Services Research in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
  • DGPPN award for care and health professions in psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatic medicine
  • DGPPN Antistigma Prize - Promotion Prize for the destigmatization of mental illnesses (together with the Action Alliance for Mental Health)
  • DGPPN Prize for Philosophy and Ethics in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (together with the Bonn Institute for Science and Ethics)
  • DGPPN media award for science journalism
  • DGPPN-Best Paper Award in cooperation with Springer Medicine

literature

  • Johannes Pantel: Neurology, Psychiatry and Internal Medicine. Course and dynamics of a historical dispute. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 11, 1993, pp. 77-99.
  • Hans-Walter Schmuhl: The Society of German Neurologists and Psychiatrists in National Socialism . Springer, Berlin and Heidelberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-662-48743-3 .
  • Silke Fehlemann, Heiner Fangerau, Steffen Dörre, Frank Schneider: 175 years of psychiatric specialist societies in Germany. The history of the DGPPN and its predecessor organizations. 2017

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. https://www.dgppn.de/die-dgppn/vorstand.html
  2. ^ Kurt Mendel: 25 years of the Society of German Neurologists. In: German journal for neurology. Volume 122, 1931, pp. 1-17, here: pp. 1-3.
  3. ^ Herrmann Oppenheim: Welcome address at the 1st annual meeting of the Society of German Neurologists. In: German journal for neurology. Volume 34, 1908, pp. 2-4.
  4. Johannes Pantel: Neurology, Psychiatry and Internal Medicine. Course and dynamics of a historical dispute. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 11, 1993, pp. 77–99, here: pp. 85–91 ( The founding of the German Society for Neurology ) and p. 94 f. (The compulsory union of the Society of German Neurologists with the German Association for Psychiatry) .
  5. ^ Ernst Rüdin: Opening address at the 1st annual meeting of the Society of German Neurologists and Psychiatrists. In: German journal for neurology. Volume 139, 1936, pp. 5-11.
  6. Steffen Dörre: The psychiatric society in the post-war period (1945-1975): Psyche in focus. The magazine of the DGPPN, No. 1, 2019, S42.-47.
  7. Johannes Pantel (1993), p. 96 ( Stagnation and New Beginning: The Path to the Present ).
  8. Klaus-Joachim Zülch: The historical development of German neurology. Berlin / Heidelberg et al. 1987.