University Psychiatric Services Bern

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Logo of the University Psychiatric Services Bern (UPD)
Logo of the University Psychiatric Services Bern (UPD)
The central building of the Waldau Clinic
The Waldau on a drawing by Adolf Wölfli (1921)

The University Psychiatric Services Bern (UPD) is a stock corporation that operates psychiatric clinics and offers in the field of residential and work rehabilitation in the canton of Bern . Your cantonal service mandate includes basic psychiatric care for all age groups in the Bern region as well as for children and young people throughout the canton of Bern.

The UPD is the competence center for psychiatry and psychotherapy in the capital region and one of the most renowned psychiatric hospitals in Switzerland. The UPD offers the entire psychiatric supply chain from early detection to outpatient, day-care and inpatient treatment to rehabilitation and reintegration of people with a mental illness. As a university hospital , the UPD also makes a significant contribution to special psychiatric care as well as basic, advanced and advanced training, teaching and research.

structure

The UPD Bern consists of the following clinics and directorates:

  • University Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
  • University Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
  • University Clinic for Geriatric Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
  • Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation
  • Services and Operations Directorate

They operate over 30 locations in the canton of Bern. The Waldau area in the northeast of the city of Bern forms the traditional core .

history

Since the end of the 15th century there has been an infirmary for lepers on the Breitfeld , later a hospital for syphilitics (the Blatternhaus ) was added, and a madhouse was built here from 1744 to 1749 . For a long time, the inmates were shown to curious strollers through peepholes in the cell doors in exchange for a tip. The whole facility was called the Ausser-Krankenhaus . From 1821 patients with certain skin diseases such as grind were also admitted here.

The actual "insane asylum" Waldau was founded in 1850. In 1852 a new building could be moved into, which offered space for 250 patients. Since then, numerous renovations and new buildings have taken place. The former infirmary chapel, completed in 1501 and enlarged in 1683, which has two bells from 1497 and 1684, belongs to Waldau. From 1858 to 1871 the reformed theologian Ernst Friedrich Langhans worked as a pastor at the clinic. Walter Morgenthaler was an assistant doctor here from 1908 to 1910 and senior doctor from 1913 to 1920. He collected historical objects and documents and used them to set up an exhibition in two rooms of today's “Old Clinic”, which laid the foundation for the Swiss Psychiatry Museum . Well-known residents of the Waldau were the Art brut artist Adolf Wölfli (from 1895 to 1930) and the writers Hans Morgenthaler (1925), Robert Walser (from 1929 to 1933) and Friedrich Glauser (from 1934 to 1936). Glauser wrote his first three Wachtmeister Studer novels there : Schlumpf Erwin Mord , Die Fieberkurve and Matto rules . The latter is considered a roman-clef and triggered a scandal in the Bernese health system when it was published in 1937, as a result of which Waldau even threatened a disciplinary investigation, although in the novel Glauser reckoned with an earlier stay at the Münsingen psychiatric center .

Directors

literature

  • Andreas Altorfer: In the institution - life in the psychiatric clinic at the beginning of the 20th century: a photographic documentation from the insane, sanatorium and nursing home in Waldau. Exhibition in the Psychiatrie Museum (Bern) , September 22, 2007–23. August 2008, Edition Solo, Bern 2008, ISBN 978-3-9523374-0-0 .
  • Michel Beretti, Armin Heusser (Ed.): The Last Continent: Report on a journey between art and madness; a picture and reading book with materials from the Waldau archive (the book was created on the basis of the exhibition “Le Dernier Continent ou la Waldau, Asile de l'Art” at the Center Culturel Suisse in Paris from May 11 to June 30, 1996, Swiss State Library in Bern from February 28 to April 19, 1997). With texts by Rätus Luck, design: Guido Widmer, Limmat, Zurich 1997, ISBN 3-85791-281-2 .
  • Zita Caviezel-Rüegg u. a .: The Waldau near Bern (= Swiss Art Guide , Volume 639/640). Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Bern 1998, ISBN 3-85782-639-8 .
  • Werner Strik : 150 years of Waldau - a mirror of society. In: UniPress. Edition 125, June 2005, p. 25 f. (PDF; 79 kB).
  • Martina Wernli: Writing in the margin: the "Bernese cantonal lunatic asylum Waldau" and their narratives (1895–1936) , Transcript, Bielefeld 2014, ISBN 978-3-8376-2878-4 (revised dissertation ETH Zurich 2012, 444 pages, publisher information ) .
  • Jakob Wyrsch : 100 Years of Waldau: History of the Cantonal Sanatorium and Psychiatric University Clinic Waldau-Bern. Huber, Bern 1955.

See also

Web links

Commons : University Psychiatric Services Bern  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ University Psychiatric Services Bern (UPD) AG , Commercial Register of the Canton of Bern, accessed on August 22, 2018.

Coordinates: 46 ° 58 ′ 1 "  N , 7 ° 28 ′ 53"  E ; CH1903:  603254  /  201764