Psychosomatics, psychopathology, psychiatry (HFP M1)

30. August 2025

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)