An interdisciplinary team approach of Günter Ammon's dynamic psychiatry: Theory and practice at Menterschwaige hospital

Abstract

The integrative model of person-centred clinical care in dynamic psychiatry comprises interdisciplinary features and approaches. The central integrative aspect is the holistic view of a person as a unique human being, influenced by the dynamics of the surrounding groups. We present the theoretical conception of human development and the therapeutic conceptions and intervention methods of dynamic psychiatry as a person-centred clinical care concept. This concept is introduced at the Menterschwaige psychiatric hospital in Munich. The Menterschwaige hospital bases its multidimensional psychiatric-psychotherapeutic work on the analytic group dynamics and thus follows systemic psychiatry principles means that staff as well as patients are daily challenged with interdisciplinary demands. Based on theoretical considerations about the necessary preconditions of such an interdisciplinary team approach in person-centred clinical care, its implementation will be discussed in this paper. This approach is realised through group-dynamic and self-reflective processes within various groups of the clinical system, for instance, in the team's regular group dynamic sessions. A case study is presented to show what essential significance this self-reflective work has in successful person-centred treatment of seriously mentally disordered patients.