This year’s annual meeting of the German Society for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Neuropsychiatry (DGPPN) will focus on mental health, as well as current issues regarding diagnostics and therapy.
From 25 to 28 November more than 8,000 participants are expected to attend Europe’s largest specialist conference in this field in the International Congress Center Berlin (ICC Berlin).
Over 580 individual events are scheduled to take place during the course of the meetings.
Under the slogan of “psychiatric disorders during the course of life“ the following key topics will be discussed: the development and prevention of psychiatric disorders, the psychosocial and biological influences on their development, psychiatric disorders in adolescence, as well as psychotherapy and drug therapy.
Discussion will also focus on issues concerning quality assurance in diagnostics and therapy, and on organising suitable care for people with psychiatric disorders.
From 10.30 a.m. to 2.45 p.m. on 28 November interested visitors can obtain free information at an event organised by DGPPN, where experts will be answering questions from the general public.
Key topics will be depression, anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive disorders, schizophrenia, addiction and dementia. Full programme details of the DGPPN Congress 2009 can be found on the internet at www.dgppn-kongress.de
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