Closed Acute Unit (Ward 5)
We are a specialized acute and intensive care unit that offers a protected space for people in acute mental crises. This includes crisis situations such as acute suicidality, severe depressive states or acute psychoses.
We offer an environment where the focus is placed on stabilization and recovery. Our interdisciplinary team works with each patient individually to create customized treatment plans that are tailored to their specific needs and challenges. Once the acute phase has passed, we support our patients in gradually taking on more personal responsibility - for example by leaving the ward or spending the weekend at home to promote resilience in everyday life. Our aim is to intervene quickly in acute crisis situations and to enable long-term stabilization.
Our multimodal therapy approach
We place great importance on evidence-based and simultaneously patient-oriented treatment. Our multimodal therapeutic concept combines various forms of treatment in order to offer you a holistic range of therapies. In addition to drug therapy, we therefore also offer you non-drug treatments from psychotherapy, occupational therapy and art therapy, sports and exercise therapy and socio-psychiatric support in the form of individual and group therapies.
In acute crisis situations, we offer specialized groups directly on our ward and can already support you in crisis situations on our ward with our integrated occupational therapy. There is a metacognition and defusion group on the ward specifically for patients with psychosis spectrum disorders. Our aim is to strengthen your abilities and resources in order to support your healing process holistically.
Clinical studies
Our acute and intensive care unit is part of the research clinic of the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry. We encourage all our patients to participate in the Max Planck Institute's Biobank so that, with your support, we have as much data as possible to help us gain insights for future, more individualized treatments. We also offer specialized clinical studies as part of our research in order to improve and individualize therapies. Together with your treatment team, we will find out which study could be the best fit for you if you choose to support our research.