Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
In May 2010 the department for psychiatry and psychotherapy has launched at Beta Klinik. Head of the practice for psychiatry and psychotherapy is Dr. med. Barbara Hawellek, who also is leading senior physician of the Klinik fuer Psychiatrie und Psychotherapy of Bonn University. Because Beta Klinik is an international head and spine center, it seemed to suggest itself that also psychiatric and psychotherapeutic aspects has to be integrated into the comprehensive range of services. This especially holds since not all physical complaints have their origin in the corresponding part of the body but also can be caused by psyche. It is possible that, for example, dizziness, tinnitus, impaired balance or even back pain or other complaints of the back are psychologically caused and symptoms of a psychological illness. In contrast to this, it is also possible that physical complains have a huge impact on psyche and bring about psychological complaints to be treated with psychiatric and psychotherapeutic measures.
Opening hours are Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday from 3 p.m. and by arrangement.
Dr. Hawellek is specialized in psychiatry and psychotherapy and successfully absolved additional trainings in
- 'Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy'
- 'Interpersonal Psychotherapy'
- CBASP (Cognitive Behavioral System of Psychotherapy, J. McCollough)
- 'Philosophical Practice' (Dr. Gerd Achenbach, IGPP)
Therapeutically Dr. Hawellek focuses on
- the treatment (psychotherapeutical and psychopharmalogical) of patients with affective (e.g., depressive), anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, personality and schizophrenic disorders
- Coaching in cases of life-crisis, grief processes, career planning
Besides clinical practice, Dr. Hawellek devotes time to research in the following fields:
- suicidality and para-suicidality: clinical aspects (detection of risk factors, prevention and treatment), epidemological and molecular genetic studies
- personality disorders (esp., impulsivity and agressiveness spectrum), diagnostic and therapeutic questions, identification of neurobiological and neuropsychological state and trait markers
- psychotherapy research (individual and group)
- interdisciplinary exchange with philosophical disciplines, for example, Europäische Akademie Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany (together with the acedemy in 10/2007: interdisciplinary board discussing conceptual questions about 'pychological illness')
- relationship between creativity and psychological illness, medicine historical and literary aspects