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Alzheimer’s disease has recently been redefined as a complex clinical–biological entity by the International Working Group (IWG), and while the cognitive symptoms associated with the disease progression have been thoroughly investigated,...

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted employment, but whether distinct types of employment change are differentially associated with suicidal behavior remains unclear. This study examined the association between pandemic-related employment chan...

Nightmares are distressing sleep experiences associated with emotional difficulties, impaired daytime functioning, and reduced sleep quality. Although imagery rescripting (IR) has demonstrated effectiveness in reducing nightmare-related distress amon...

Climate change is accelerating the frequency and intensity of extreme heat events worldwide, with heatwaves projected to increase globally and hot day-and-night episodes in Geneva expected to more than double from 48 to 108 per decade by 2050 under t...

For decades, clinicians treating Alzheimer’s disease could offer accurate diagnosis, symptomatic drugs, and compassionate support, but nothing that altered the course of the disease [...]

The long-term neuropsychiatric effects of COVID-19 are still unclear. Various mental health conditions are known to be influenced by biopsychosocial factors. We sought to investigate whether COVID-19 infection increases the risk for newly diagnosed a...

How childhood trauma and early maladaptive schemas (EMS) are linked to health anxiety, and the role of schema domains in these associations, remain unclear. This study aimed to investigate the association between childhood total, emotional, and sexua...

Suicide research concerning lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and other sexually and gender-diverse (LGBTQIA+) populations has established a consistent pattern of inequity, but it has too often described disparity without...

Patient motivation is fundamental to engagement, rehabilitation, and recovery within forensic psychiatric hospitals, yet it is often interpreted primarily through the lens of psychopathology and the negative symptoms of schizophrenia. This instrument...

Alzheimer’s disease is biologically defined by beta-amyloid and tau pathology, yet the mechanisms through which molecular and network alterations become expressed as the progressive loss of meaningful behaviour remain incompletely understood. T...

Background: Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) and Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) are both complex, often debilitating conditions that frequently affect young women and involve high symptom burdens and psychiatric comorbidity. A...

The geropsychosis hypothesis proposes that anxiety, mood, psychotic, and neurocognitive disorders may share a common biophysical origin with aging itself, rather than arising from wholly disparate pathological routes in many instances. Specifically,...

Background: Delirium and dementia are highly interrelated. Delirium superimposed on dementia can alter the course of an underlying cognitive impairment, with dramatic worsening of the trajectory of cognitive decline, resulting in more rapid progressi...

Background: This study aimed to analyze the relationship between dietary habits and mental health among people with disability (PWD) using the Panel Survey of Employment for the Disabled (PSED). Significant differences according to gender and age wer...

Major depressive disorder (MDD) affects approximately 280 million people worldwide, yet conventional pharmacotherapy achieves remission in only 30–50% of patients, intensifying the search for novel biological substrates. This systematic review,...

Standard diagnostic categories (International Classification of Diseases (ICD) and Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)) were developed as a pragmatic compromise between competing theoretical schools in psychiatry and psychothe...

Background: Breast cancer survivorship extends beyond physical recovery to include psychological and social adjustment, particularly how women construct and perceive their identity as survivors. While survivor identity has been widely studied in high...

In this essay, hope is presented as a key driver of psychiatric and psychotherapy outcomes, helping clients move beyond symptom relief toward meaning, resilience, and flourishing. The text integrates goal-based models with relational, narrative, and...

It is both an honor and a great responsibility to assume the role of Editor-in-Chief of the Swiss Archives of Neurology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (SANPP) [...]

Following the successful integration of Cardiovascular Medicine into our portfolio [...]

Das Buch setzt sich mit der engen Verbindung von «Forschen» und «Heilen» auseinander, welche die Psychoanalyse – als Wissenschaft und Therapiemethode – von Anfang an geprägt hat [...]

Sowohl für Partner und Kinder psychisch kranker Menschen als auch für Eltern und Geschwister psychisch erkrankter Kinder stellen psychische Erkrankungen eine grosse Herausforderung dar und bedeuten, mit mannigfaltigen Belastungen leben zu müssen. Psy...

Das Buch enthält Beiträge einer grösseren Anzahl international renommierter Psychotherapieforscher und -forscherinnen, die sich sowohl mit grundlegenden Fragen der Psychotherapieforschung im wissenschaftshistorischen Kontext wie auch mit konkreten Fo...

Peut-on prendre ses propres décisions sans risque de s’anéantir?[…]

Aims: The presented article summarizes the topics and recommendations of a large-scale mixed-methods study on behalf of the Swiss Federal Office of Justice. The mandate was to eval uate the implementation of involuntary admission (Fürsorgerische Unte...

Background: A famed son of Geneva, Jean-Étienne Liotard’s (1702–1789) pastel paintings were epitomised by subtlety and depth [1]

Background: Mental health problems affect men and women differently and women have a higher prevalence of mental health issues than men. Overall, women are two to three times more likely to be affected than men. Scientific literature tends to confirm...

Nun ist die grosse Arbeit an der Sigmund Freud Gesamtausgabe (SFG) beendet; das mutige und grosse Projekt, 2015 von Christfried Tögel und dem Psychosozial-Verlag begonnen, wird acht Jahre später mit dem vorliegenden Band 23, der das Register für alle...

Background and objective: The health of Europe’s psychiatry and mental health professionals has been severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of this study was to explore the perception of the negative effects of COVID-19 among mental heal...

Dieses Motto, das sich der Rezensent ausgedacht hat, bezieht sich auf die Frage, was der Autor uns mit der Darstellung dieses besonderen Psychiaterlebens sagt und auch nicht sagt, nicht sagen kann[...]

The classification of personality disorders (PDs) has changed fundamentally from ICD-10 to ICD-11; the distinct diagnostic categories of ICD-10 are replaced by a dimensional approach in ICD-11. In ICD-11, various levels of severity are determined by...

Hereditary transthyretin amyloid polyneuropathy (TTR-PN), also known as familial amyloid polyneuropathy, is a rare fatal systemic disease that causes sensorimotor polyneuropathy, autonomic dysfunction, cardiac failure, and gastrointestinal tract diso...

Ich wachse bei meiner Tante auf [...]

Settings offering services by liaison psychiatry (LP) and associated human resources have increased over the last decades. While the psychiatric consultation activity has grown, the psychiatric liaison (LI) activity, aiming to build a bridge between...

Introduction: Trauma-related disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder or dissociative identity disorder have a prevalence of 2%. Therefore, they should not be underestimated. To this date, no study in Switzerland has addressed the care situat...

We explore the nature of creativity and its relationship with our inner vision of the world. Advances in our understanding of the neural mechanisms of creativity and the function of the visual brain are reviewed. After a reminder of the classical Gre...

The great master in the large field of epilepsy […]

Eine wunderschöne Frau sitzt auf der Couch, auf ihrem Arm liegt ihr sechs Monate altes Baby, das friedlich gestillt wird [...]

In the Swiss pharmaceutical market, supply shortages for individual medicines are becoming increasingly frequent. In 2021, this affected Sevre-Long^®, a drug used for many patients under opioid agonist therapy (OAT). Due to the exhaustion of local sto...

Michael Rufer: Dieses Modul haben wir aufgebaut, um möglichst früh im Medizinstudium die Bedeutung der Psychotherapie für Ärztinnen und Ärzte herauszustreichen. Wir waren damals sehr gespannt, ob es gelingen würde, die Studierenden bereits ab dem zwe...

Background: Short, accurate, rapidly completed psychometric tests are in high demand in psychiatry. Time is always limited. Researchers often try not to overburden patients included in studies measuring many variables. However, shorter psychometric t...

In der Psychiatrie gab es in den letzten Jahrzehnten beeindruckende wissenschaftliche Fortschritte, vor allem durch die Neurowissenschaften […]

The etiology of Parkinson’s disease (PD) is multifactorial and involves both genetic and nongenetic factors [...]

Nicht nur ein halbes Jahrhundert fachärztlicher Bildung und Erfahrung sind in dieses Buch eingegangen […]

Background: Only a few patients with strokes following a suicide attempt (SFSA) are described in the literature. The best-known mechanism is the dissection of cervical arteries. We aimed to determine the frequency, clinical presentation, mechanisms,...

Hospitalized patients can be difficult to meet with and understand while going through their suffering. Patients and their caregivers can find themselves locked into a kind of “non-meeting” during the hospital stay. In other cases, there may be a “hy...

La psychiatrie sociale a-t-elle encore un sens et un avenir? Le professeur Charles Bonsack, du Centre hospitalier universitaire vaudois et de l’Université de Lausanne, président de la Société suisse de psychiatrie sociale (so-psy.ch), répond à nos qu...

Introduction: In Switzerland, specialists in psychiatry and psychotherapy are highly needed for about one third of all current psychiatrists will retire over the next ten years. With this survey we wanted to investigate positive and negative motivati...

Mit den nun vorgestellten Bänden wird das grosse Unterfangen der Sigmund Freud Gesamtausgabe (SFG) des Psychosozial-Verlags inhaltlich abgerundet [...]

The drawing on the cover page was created by a young man suffering from anorexia and offers an insight into his perspective of the condition [...]