Münsingen Psychiatry Center
The PZM Psychiatriezentrum Münsingen AG is a psychiatric clinic in Münsingen near Bern .
description
The PZM AG is organized in the three clinics "Depression and Anxiety", "Psychosis and Dependency" and "Age and Neuropsychiatry" as well as in the "Living and Working" offer. 256 municipalities from the Bern-Land region belong to their reception area. The total of 260 beds are used by around 2500 people annually.
The construction of the PZM Psychiatriezentrum Münsingen AG dates back to 1895 and was based on plans by Paul Adolphe Tièche . Due to a chronic lack of space in the Waldau Clinic near Bern, the Grand Council decided to set up a second “ insane asylum ” on the castle estate in Münsingen. The facility was built in a mixed block and pavilion system . The architecture of the PZM with its varied and well-tended nature park is unique in Switzerland.
Right from the start, PZM AG was considered innovative and open to new therapeutic methods. The hospital management expressly accepted more escapes so that they could employ the sick in workshops and outdoors instead of isolating them. Münsingen was the first sanatorium in Switzerland to introduce family therapy in 1898 and occupational therapy in 1929 . The PZM soon became a leader in the treatment of schizophrenia . In 1937 the first international congress on the subject took place in Münsingen. Various pioneering offers have been developed and successfully implemented in recent years.
The range of treatment includes outpatient, partial inpatient and inpatient clarifications, diagnostics and comprehensive treatment for mentally ill adults. Therapeutic action includes psychotherapy , sociotherapy and pharmacotherapy as the focal points . They are supplemented by a wide range of special therapies. In 2013 the Münsingen Psychiatry Center received a major award: It was one of the first hospitals in Switzerland to be awarded the 4-star “Recognition for Excellence” according to the EFQM model. This was renewed and confirmed in 2016.
The writer Friedrich Glauser (1896–1938) spent a total of six years in the clinic in Münsingen and made it the scene of Matto ruled in 1936 , the third novel about the detective character Wachtmeister Studer . The thriller is considered Glauser's key novel and triggered a scandal in the Bernese health system when it appeared in 1937, as a result of which Max Müller (senior physician at the PZM) was summoned to the government council and director of the health system and the Waldau Psychiatric Clinic threatened a disciplinary investigation. Scenes from the documentary Glauser - The eventful life of a great writer by the Swiss director Christoph Kühn from 2011 were recorded in the PZM.
In the publicly accessible park of the psychiatry center there is the "Aaretal steam train" and a mini golf course.
Directors
- 1894–1912 Georg Glaser
- 1912–1938 Ulrich Brauchli
- 1939–1954 Max Müller
- 1954–1963 Hans Walther-Büel
- 1963–1982 Rudolf Wyss
- 1982–1988 Waldemar Menzi
- 1988-2005 Jean-Pierre Pauchard
- since 2005 Rolf Ineichen
literature
- Hans Maurer, Michael Gerber, Sarah Pfister: Psychiatry Center Münsingen PZM. (Swiss Art Guide, No. 863/864, Series 87). Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 2009, ISBN 978-3-85782-863-8 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Bangen, Hans: History of the drug therapy of schizophrenia. Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-927408-82-4 p. 49
- ↑ Footnote 40 in: "You must believe in your healing!": Paul Dubois, 1848-1918, a forgotten pioneer of psychotherapy. Schwabe, Basel 2001, p. 36.
- ^ Friedrich Glauser: Letters I, 1911-1935. Arche, Zurich 1988, p. 45.
- ^ "For decades": Rudolf Wyss in memory. In: The Bund . July 19, 1996.
- ↑ «Psychiatry is not there to dispose of people». In: Berner Zeitung . December 2, 2005.
- ↑ Rolf Ineichen becomes the new director of the Münsingen Psychiatry Center , media release of the Canton of Bern, March 24, 2005, accessed on April 26, 2012.
Coordinates: 46 ° 52 '52 " N , 7 ° 33' 8" E ; CH1903: 608658 / one hundred and ninety-two thousand two hundred and twenty-seven