Vitos Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Giessen

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The Vitos Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Gießen is located at Licher Straße 106 in Gießen. Vitos Gießen-Marburg is the sponsor.

history

The state sanatorium and nursing home in Giessen went into operation in September 1911. Men and women were accepted as patients. During the First World War, the institution served as a reserve hospital to restore the fitness of traumatized soldiers to war.

time of the nationalsocialism

In the era of nationalism, patients were forcibly sterilized . 263 patients were brought to the Nazi killing center in Hadamar and murdered there with gas.

The Gießen sanatorium and nursing home later served as a collecting facility for Jewish patients. 126 people were transported to Brandenburg an der Havel and murdered in the old penitentiary there on October 1, 1940 in the Brandenburg killing center .

post war period

At the beginning of the 1950s, the clinic was taken over by the State Welfare Association of Hesse . It was renamed "Psychiatric Hospital".

Medicines were first used in the later 1950s. Later, new forms of treatment such as occupational therapy , occupational therapy , sociotherapy , psychotherapy and exercise therapy were added.

In the mid-1970s, mixed-gender wards were introduced and the large dormitories were replaced by smaller rooms.

In 2002, the clinics in Marburg (Lahnhöhe Clinic) and Gießen (Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy) were merged to form the “Center for Social Psychiatry Middle Lahn”, and since 2009 “Vitos Clinic Gießen-Marburg”.

Facility

The range of treatments on offer includes general psychiatry, geriatric psychiatry and addiction disorders.

See also

Web links

Commons : Heil- und Pflegeeanstalt Gießen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monica Kingreen, Jewish patients in the Gießen institution and their function as a "collecting institution" in September 1939, in: Uta George et al. (Ed.), Psychiatrie in Gießen. Facets of their history between care and exclusion, research and healing (historical series of the Landeswohlfahrtsverband Hessen, sources and studies, vol. 9), Gießen 2003, pp. 251–289

Coordinates: 50 ° 34 ′ 40 "  N , 8 ° 42 ′ 4"  E