Welcome!

The Department of Medical Psychology seeks to engage in a broad spectrum of clinical services, education, and research in the field of psychotherapy and psychological aspects of medicine.

Our team consists of medical doctors, psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists, social workers.

Professor and Chairman: Gerhard Schüßler, M.D.

Education

• Psychological Medicine & Psychotherapy for students of Medicine and Dentistry
• Curricula “Psychosocial Medicine“, “Psychosomattic Medicine“, and “Psychotherapeutic Medicine“ for MDs
• Training in “Communicative Abilities“ for MDs
• Curricula “Clinical Psychology“ and “Health Psychology“ for psychologists
• Psychological Medicine for nursing staff

Research

Six groups are conducting research in different areas:

• Eating Disorders 
• Women´s Health
• Psychoneuroimmunology
• Quality of Life Research
• Interdisciplinary Psychosomatics
• Psycho-Oncology 
  

Publications:

• 2006 
• 2005 
• 2004 
• 2003 

Clinical Services

Psychotherapy Outpatient Unit

(Head: Prof. Gerhard Schüßler, M.D.; Ulrike Smrekar, Ph.D.)

Specialized outpatient units for patients with

• Eating disorders
• Pain disorders
• Personality disorders
• Oncological diseases
• Somatoform disorders
• Tinnitus

Consultation/Liaison-Service

(Head: Astrid Lampe, M.D.; Gerhard Rumpold, Ph.D.)

C/L-services are established at the following Departments

• Internal Medicine ICU
• ENT
• Surgery ICU
• Neurology
• Traumatology ICU
• Dermatology
• Anesthesiology
• Plastic Surgery
• Orthopedics
• Urology
• Neurosurgery
• Dentistry
• AIDS unit
• Nephrology
• Gynecology
• Gastroenterology
• Radiotherapie
• Oral surgery
• Cardiology

Women's Health

(Head: Astrid Lampe, M.D.)

-Psychosomatics in obsterics and gynecology
-Sexual traumatization, physical violence, and emotionalneglect in women

Coaching and counselling

(Head: Angelika Schöch, Ph.D.; Brunhilde Wurm, M.D)

Coaching and counselling for members of the clinical staff of the Innsbruck University Hospital