Course duration: 8 days 56 hours
Aug 30th/ Aug 31st / Oct 24th / Oct 25th / Nov 15th / Nov 16 2025
The dates of the missing two days will be announced later.
Language: German Level B2
Costs course incl. guided self-study time (1:1 coaching) CHF 930.-
Cost of oral examination (colloquium) CHF 200.-
Cost of written examination CHF 200.-
All as part of module examination M1
Course content:
- Psychosomatics
- Psychopathology I
- Psychiatric interviewing
- Common psychiatric clinical pictures: Depression, schizophrenia,
anxiety disorders, personality disorders and addiction - Main types of psychotropic drugs
- Psychiatric emergencies (crises)
Psychopathology I
Definition of the subject (epidemiology, prevalence, concept of illness)
General model of mental illness
Disorder areas and their characteristics; comparative examples
The diagnostic process in psychiatry
(symptoms, assessment of findings, biographical anamnesis, personal anamnesis, anamnesis of others, anamnesis of resources, subjectivity, intersubjectivity)
Standardized procedures (psychological/neuropsychological) self- and external assessment
Categories of psychopathology
- Consciousness and its disorders
- Orientation and its disorders
- The ability to pay attention and concentrate and its disorders
- Memory, retentiveness, cognition and their disorders
- Intelligence and its disorders
- Thinking and its disorders
- The delusional process
- Perception and its disorders
- Egotism and its disorders
- Affectivity and its disorders
- Anxiety and its disorders (compulsions, phobias, etc.)
- Drive and psychomotor functions and their disorders
Psychiatric clinical pictures
- Affective disorders, anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorders, somatoform disorders, eating disorders, addictive disorders, trauma disorders, dissociative disorders, attachment disorders, sexual dysfunctions,
- Sleep disorders, personality disorders, psychotic conditions, schizophrenia, organic mental disorders, child and adolescent psychiatric disorders
Psychosomatics
-Psychosomatic theory and models
-Most common psychosomatic clinical pictures (cardiovascular, gynecology, gastrointestinal tract, respiratory organs, rheumatic diseases, pain from a psychosomatic perspective)