Saxon Hospital Rodewisch, Center for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Neurology
| Saxon Hospital Rodewisch, Center for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Neurology | |
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| Sponsorship | Free State of Saxony |
| place | Rodewisch |
| state | Saxony |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 31 '52 " N , 12 ° 23' 59" E |
| executive Director | Michael Riedel (Medical Director) Lothar Bischof (Administrative Director) Thomas Winkler (Nursing Director) |
| beds | 396 (as of October 2017) |
| Employee | over 600 |
| areas of expertise | Psychiatry, neurology |
| founding | 1893 |
| Website | www.skh-rodewisch.de |
The Saxon Hospital Rodewisch , Center for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Neurology is a specialist hospital with a focus on psychiatry and psychotherapy , child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy, neurology and forensic psychiatry .
The Free State of Saxony is responsible for the hospital . In addition to the headquarters in Rodewisch, there are also two day clinics in Plauen and Annaberg-Buchholz .
history
The Saxon Hospital Rodewisch was inaugurated on July 25, 1893 as the “Royal Saxon State, Healing and Nursing Institution for the Mentally Ill in Untergöltzsch”. The planning and construction of this facility was part of the reorganization of the "state madness" between 1887 and 1895 in the Kingdom of Saxony . Due to the increasing overcrowding of the state institutions, the state parliament in Dresden decided in the legislature period 1888/89 to build a new sanatorium and nursing home for the mentally ill. When choosing the location, the still insufficient psychiatric care in the Ore Mountains and Vogtland was taken into account.
At the time of opening, the institute had 29 buildings, most of them in the Swiss style with spacious, bright verandas with yellow, red or brown bricks. The institution was intended to accommodate 600 patients. In the following years the facility was structurally expanded, 41 buildings were built by 1913. The architectural concept for psychiatric facilities, which was modern for that time, was thus implemented.
During the First World War , at the end of 1917, all patients in the Untergöltzsch institution had to be distributed among the other institutions in Saxony because the military administration claimed the house as a reserve hospital. From 1920 the institute was returned to its original purpose. A large number of the patients were victims of Aktion T4 in 1940 and 1941 and were murdered in the Nazi killing center at Sonnenstein near Pirna . At the same time, houses for a lung ward and the district monastery (old people's home) Obergöltzsch were cleared. Towards the end of the Second World War, the hospital was more like a storage facility.
The introduction of psychotropic drugs in the mid-1950s led to the facility being transformed from an institution to a specialist hospital. In the course of this, the house was renamed in 1956 as "Rodewisch Specialist Hospital for Psychiatry and Neurology". The outpatient clinic opened a year later to provide follow-up care for patients discharged from hospital. In 1963, an international conference took place in the hospital, the result of which was the Rodewian theses - a program to reform psychiatry and, including a more humane treatment of patients in the GDR - were to lead the way.
After the fall of the Wall , the hospital was taken over by the Free State of Saxony, represented by the Saxon State Ministry for Social Affairs , and was given the name "Saxon Hospital for Psychiatry and Neurology Rodewisch". In the following years the number of beds was minimized. The former dormitories have been replaced by single and twin rooms. In the 1950s, more than 1,500 patients were accommodated, but the renovation work has significantly reduced the number of beds, so that today only 396 patients are treated as inpatients and day clinics.
Rodewian theses
As early as 1956, the Rodewisch Specialist Hospital's “in-house plan” stated “to develop the facility into a modern psychiatric and neurological clinic that is able to use all therapeutic measures that have become internationally standard”. In order to raise the level of treatment, the following steps were planned: basic and advanced training of the staff by means of a multi-level program, introduction of a three-shift system, establishment of a physiotherapeutic department and the profiling of the neurological department. However, special attention was also paid to the points “loosening up the overcrowded hospital wards”, “differentiating the individual wards according to disease symptoms and chronicity or severity”, “improving outpatient psychiatric care” and “developing occupational therapy”. In the following decades, the overcrowding, which was 1500 beds in 1957, was gradually reduced. “The pioneering achievement of the Rodewisch facility […] [was] received with great interest at home and abroad […] and has contributed to the fact that other large psychiatric hospitals in the GDR began to reorganize since the early 1960s. In recognition of these important services to the health care system [...], by resolution of the health ministries of the GDR and friendly socialist countries, Rodewisch was chosen as the venue for a symposium on psychiatric rehabilitation. "
From May 23-25, 1963, the hospital was the venue for the 1st International Symposium on Psychiatric Rehabilitation. About 120 doctors and scientists from nine countries took part. Finally, scientifically based therapy recommendations were unanimously adopted. These went down in the history of psychiatry as the "Rodewian Theses". The main features were the demand for the abolition of so-called "custody psychiatry", the social integration of the sick and the establishment of outpatient and day-care services. With these theses important impulses for the forms of psychiatry in East and West were named. For the first time, the central ideas of the German psychiatry debate were formulated here, which also influenced the development of social psychiatry in the Federal Republic of Germany. Over 120 doctors and scientists from nine countries took part (USSR, GDR and “friendly socialist countries”, FRG, France and Canada), and the lectures were translated into Russian, French and German.
The theses subsequently led to partial success, even if the complete reform failed to materialize. In many psychiatric institutions, the bars on the windows have been removed and wards opened. Rehabilitative programs were launched in Rodewisch itself. From now on, the rehabilitation character should be recognizable in all treatment stages.
Web links
- Web presence of the SKH Rodewisch
- Harald Brauer: History of the Saxon Hospital for Psychiatry and Neurology Rodewisch
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dr. Konrad Singer, Dipl.-Psych. Jürgen Crackau: From the royal Saxon state sanatorium and nursing home for the mentally ill in Untergöltzsch to the district specialist hospital for psychiatry and neurology Rodewisch . In: Chronicle of the Rodewisch Specialist Hospital . tape 3 . Rodewisch 1975.
- ↑ Saxon Society for Social Psychiatry: The Rodewian Theses (1963) ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 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. .
- ^ Eva A. Richter: Psychiatry in the GDR: Stuck - Approaches 38 years ago. . In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt . 2001; 98 (6).
- ^ Maria Rank: Rodewischer Theses. 2014, accessed November 8, 2017 .
