Psychiatric University Clinic Zurich

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Psychiatric University Clinic Zurich
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Sponsorship Canton Zurich
place Zurich
Canton Zurich
Country Switzerland
Coordinates 685 528  /  245299 coordinates: 47 ° 21 '11 "  N , 8 ° 34' 14"  O ; CH1903:  685 528  /  245299
Chairman of the Medical Board Susanne Walitza
beds 520
Employee 1,713
including doctors 193
areas of expertise Psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry
founding 1870
Website www.pukzh.ch
Psychiatric University Clinic, entrance section
Burghölzli Clinic around 1890
Burghölzlihügel

The Psychiatric University Clinic Zurich (PUK) is a psychiatric clinic belonging to the University of Zurich . It has been a cantonal public-law institution since 2018 and is therefore on an equal footing with the University Hospital Zurich .

The PUK is located on a wooded hill (the Burghölzli ) in the Weinegg district in the southeast of the city of Zurich . Traditionally and popularly , it is therefore also called Burghölzli .

history

The founding of the clinic was largely due to Wilhelm Griesinger , who had a pioneering influence on psychiatry of his time: Griesinger propagated a more modern and human image of the patient. From 1860 to 1865 he worked in Zurich as the head of the clinic for internal medicine and thus became the clinic's founding father.

The castle-like, monumental neo-renaissance building of the clinic was designed by the Zurich architect Johann Caspar Wolff and was built between 1864 and 1870. The clinic opened in 1870. Its first director was Bernhard von Gudden , who combined his management function with a teaching position at the University of Zurich. His successors also made this connection. Because von Gudden only managed the clinic until 1872, his influence on the Burghölzli was comparatively small. When compared with his successors, Auguste Forel (director 1879–1898) and Eugen Bleuler (director 1898–1927) stand out. The well-known psychiatrists who worked temporarily at the clinic include the aforementioned Carl Gustav Jung , Karl Abraham , Ludwig Binswanger and Eduard Hitzig . The National Socialist racial theorist Robert Ritter also worked at the clinic .

The Psychiatric Polyclinic was founded in 1911 and was integrated into the Cantonal Hospital around 1970. In 1967/1968 the walls around the Burghölzli Clinic were torn down ( antipsychiatry ). In 1970 Ambros Uchtenhagen founded the Social Psychiatric Service, which was integrated into the Psychiatric University Clinic in 1994 with the introduction of the new sector organization. In 1996 the " Gerontopsychiatric Center Hegibach" was opened. In 2013 the sector organization was given up again. The “Clinic for Affective Diseases and General Psychiatry Zurich East” and the “Clinic for Social Psychiatry and General Psychiatry Zurich West” merged to form the “Clinic for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics”. In addition, the “Clinic for Forensic Psychiatry” was created as a separate department, into which child and youth forensics has been integrated since 2015. The reorganization resulted in a division into the business areas of adult psychiatry, geriatric psychiatry and forensics. It was planned to join the child and adolescent psychiatric services of the City of Zurich as the fourth PUK clinic from 2015.

With the law on the Psychiatric University Clinic of Zurich , which came into force on January 1, 2018 , the PUK was given the status of an independent public-law institution instead of the previous legal form of an independent cantonal administration.

The prominent patients included Sabina Spielrein , Heinrich Leuthold and Eduard Einstein .

Fire disaster on March 6, 1971

In the early morning of March 6, 1971, a fire disaster occurred in the clinic. The fire brigade could not reach the locked people in time due to locked doors and barred windows and missing keys. The smoke gases killed 28 people and injured 15 others. The fire is one of the most casualties in recent Swiss history.

Departments

  • Clinic for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics (Director: Erich Seifritz)
    • Center for Acute Psychiatric Disorders
    • Center for Depression, Anxiety Disorders and Psychotherapy
    • Center for addiction disorders
    • Center for Social Psychiatry
    • Center for Integrative Psychiatry
    • Center for Psychiatric Research
  • Clinic for Geriatric Psychiatry (Director: Roger Nitsch)
    • Center for geriatric psychiatric care
    • Center for Dementia and Elderly Health
  • Clinic for Forensic Psychiatry (Director: Elmar Habermeyer)
    • Center for Inpatient Forensic Therapy
    • Outpatient forensic therapy adult forensics
    • Center for Child and Youth Forensics
  • Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (Director: Susanne Walitza)
    • Center for Child Psychiatry
    • Center for Adolescent Psychiatry
    • Center for Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Research
    • Outpatient clinics and special offers

Medical Directors

Directors of the Research Department

Since the winter semester 1970/71 there has been a second professorial office for clinical psychiatry.

  • 1969–1994: Jules Angst (director of the research department)
  • since 1998: Roger M. Nitsch (Director of the Research Department, today: Director of the Clinic for Geriatric Psychiatry and Department for Psychiatric Research)

Director of the Clinic for Social Psychiatry

  • 1977–1995: Ambros Uchtenhagen (Director of the Social Psychiatric Service, later: Director of the Psychiatric University Clinic Zurich, Sector West)
  • 1996–2013: Wulf Rössler (Director of the Clinic for Social Psychiatry and General Psychiatry Zurich West)

literature

  • Manfred Bleuler among others: One hundred years of the cantonal psychiatric university clinic Burghölzli Zurich 1870–1970. Directorate of Health Care of the Canton of Zurich, Zurich 1970.
  • Twenty years in the research department 1969–1989. Psychiatric University Clinic Zurich / Research Department, Zurich 1989.
  • Peter Gaudenz Waser : Psychiatry, psychotropic drugs and drugs in Zurich (= New Year's paper of the learned society in Zurich for the best of the orphanage. Volume 153). Beer, Zurich 1990.
  • 125 years of the Psychiatric University Clinic Zurich 1870–1995 (= punctual. Special edition July 4, 1995). Haas print shop, Zurich 1995.
  • In stages. The Psychiatric University Clinic Zurich, 1990 to 2007. Development in the field of tension between health, ethics and economics. Psychiatric University Clinic Burghölzli, Zurich 2007.
  • Marietta Meier, Brigitta Bernet, Roswitha Dubach, Urs Germann: compulsion to order. Psychiatry in the Canton of Zurich 1870–1970. Chronos, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-0340-0785-6 .
  • Wulf Rössler , Hans Danuser (Hrsg.): Castle made of wood - the Burghölzli. From the mental hospital to the Psychiatric University Clinic Zurich. Developments, internal and external views. NZZ Libro, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-03823-739-6 .
  • Heinz Böker, Jan Conradi (ed.): Burghölzli - stories and pictures. Limmat Verlag, Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-85791-805-6

Web links

Commons : Psychiatric University Clinic Zurich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b pukzh.ch , official website. Retrieved January 3, 2016.
  2. ↑ usz.ch/ueber-uns , official website. Retrieved January 3, 2016.
  3. ^ History , website of the Psychiatric University Clinic Zurich, accessed on July 6, 2012.
  4. ↑ Projects ( Memento of the original from November 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the Psychiatric University Clinic Zurich, accessed on July 6, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pukzh.ch
  5. ↑ History pukzh.ch , site of the Psychiatric University Hospital in Zurich, accessed on July 8, 2015.
  6. ↑ Law on the Psychiatric University Clinic Zurich of January 1, 2018; see. Media release of December 28, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Choking behind closed doors. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, accessed on November 14, 2017.
  8. ↑ «In twenty years we must be able to offer better therapies than today». In: Tages-Anzeiger . Updated December 18, 2008, accessed July 5, 2012.
  9. ^ Thomas Brassel: The lecturers of the University of Zurich: Summer semester 1933 to winter semester 1982/83. In: The University of Zurich 1933–1983: Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the University of Zurich. University of Zurich, Zurich 1983, ISBN 3-85823-086-3 , pp. 665-748 ( online ; PDF; 16.5 MB).
  10. ↑ Burghölzli. In: www.limmatverlag.ch. Retrieved April 30, 2016 .