LVR-Klinikum Düsseldorf Hospital of the Heinrich-Heine University ...

LVR-KLINIKUM DÜsseLDORF – hOsPITaL OF The heINRIch-heINe UNIVeRsITY DÜsseLDORF
In addition, within the reporting period the Psychiatric Sociology
Research Centre was active in compiling the health report
on the care of people with mental disorders for the City of
Düsseldorf and wrote an overview of the situation of the
specialist area of psychiatry and psychotherapy in Germany for
the Royal College of Psychiatry in Great Britain (in cooperation
with W. Gaebel and J. Zielasek). The director of the Research
Centre was also actively engaged in shedding light on the
unknown fate of victims of the “T4 action”. The Federal Health
Ministry, the Federal Association of Sickness Funds as well
as the Federal Medical Chamber awarded the editors of the
book entitled “Forgetting the Holocaust is being part of the
Holocaust”, P. Fuchs, M. Rotzoll, U. Müller, P. Richter and
G. Hohendorf, pro rata the prize in 2008 for scientific work
on medical policies during the NS period. The book resulted
from the DFG-funded study entitled “Scientific coverage and
assessment of the documentary evidence of the National
Socialists’ T4 Euthanasia Action” under the leadership of G.
Hohendorf (Heidelberg) and dealt with the individual fates
of mentally ill people who were victims of the T4 action and
whose fate could only now be discovered as new documents
were revealed. The prize money was 3,000 EUR. The DGPPN
supported the surplus costs of printing the book, in 2007, which
is now in its second edition.
Projects
Evaluation of the implementation of sectorisation in the
LVR-Klinikum Düsseldorf
M. Schwarz, U. Müller, H. Schönell,
Project period: 1999–2001
Financing: Departmental research budget
Various questionnaires were used to evaluate whether
the planned effects on patients, care and medical staff
of implementing sector-based allocation of patients
to Divisions of General Psychiatry actually occurred.
(Cooperation project with Divisions of General Psychiatry I
and II).
The living conditions of the mentally ill
U. Müller, H. Schönell, A. Gernand
Project period: 1998–2002
Financing: Departmental research budget
Investigations of the changes of the pre-inpatient, inpatient
and post-inpatient living conditions of people with mental
disorders with regard to their working life, their domestic
environment and their leisure behaviour (Cooperation with
the Division of General Psychiatry I and the Social Science
Institute, Faculty of Philosophy of the Heinrich-Heine
University, Düsseldorf).
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Analysis of social event chains before
compulsory hospitalisation
U. Müller, M. Schwarz, H. Schönell
Project period: 1999–2002
Financing: Departmental research budget
The subjective perceptions of these events by adolescent
and adult patients and their relatives were assessed by
using standardised questionnaires in order to identify
typical patterns of the events and coping mechanisms
for compulsory inpatient admission to the Klinikum
(cooperation with the Division of General Psychiatry II, the
Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the Social
Sciences Institute at the Faculty of Philosophy, Heinrich-
Heine University, Düsseldorf).
Clientele of a social-psychiatric centre
U. Müller in cooperation with K. Behrends, Düsseldorf
Health Service, J. F. Squire, N. Preston, Fremantle Hospital
and Health Services, Australia
Project period: 1998–2001
Financing: Departmental research budget, Health Service
of the City of Düsseldorf and Fremantle Hospital and Health
Services
The demands of the clientele of an inner-city socialpsychiatric
centre were investigated with respect to various
parameters of social competence and assistance-seeking
and communication behaviour as well as psychopathological
parameters.
National Socialism and psychiatry
U. Müller in cooperation with A. Genger, Mahn- und
Gedenkstätte Düsseldorf
Project period: 1998–2003
Financing: Departmental research budget and funds from
Mahn- und Gedenkstätte Düsseldorf
This project is divided into two sub-projects:
1. Analysis of the visitor books of the Mahn- und
Gedenkstätte Düsseldorf: content-analysis study.
2. Provinzial-Heil und Pflegeanstalt Düsseldorf-
Grafenberg and official opinion in the Düsseldorf quarter
of Gerresheim at the time of National Socialism:
Interviews with contemporary witnesses