German Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Neurology / Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik und Nervenheilkunde (DGPPN)

The DGPPN is the largest scientific medical association focussing on mental health in Germany. It pools the competence of 9400 doctors and scientists in the fields of psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatics who work in university and non-university hospitals, in office-based practices and in research.

The association campaigns for the optimal care of patients with mental illnesses. It develops scientific guidelines, promotes training and further and continuing education and is involved in research into mental illnesses to advance diagnostics and treatment. The main focus is thereby on the holistic view of people and their individual mental, physical and social characteristics. The DGPPN actively campaigns for the participation of people with mental illness in society and against their stigmatisation.