About PSYCH up2date

PSYCH up2date

PSYCH up2date is a German-language continuing-education journal for psychiatry and psychotherapy, published by the Georg Thieme Verlag in Stuttgart. Launched around 2007 as "Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie up2date" and renamed PSYCH up2date by 2013, it serves the psychiatric profession's certified further training (CME): each article is scientifically overseen by a subject editor "gemäß Zertifizierungsbestimmungen" — the certification-compliant continuing education. The 2024 volume was volume 18. The programme: the CME articles — the S3 guidelines, the psychopharmacology, the psychotherapy — the editorials, the pro/con debates, the case vignettes, the study summaries. The publisher: the Georg Thieme Verlag KG, Rüdigerstraße 14, 70469 Stuttgart.

Overview

PSYCH up2date is a German-language specialist journal for psychiatry and psychotherapy with a continuing-education (Fortbildung/CME) mission. Its format: the CME journal — each contribution designed for the certified further training, with the subject editor scientifically responsible per the certification regulations. Its audience: the psychiatrists, the psychotherapists, the psychiatric clinics' physicians — the profession's continuing learners. The psychiatrists earn the CME points: the certified articles, the guideline reviews. The psychotherapists follow the schools' debate: the behaviour therapy, the depth psychology. The clinic physicians read the case vignettes: the compulsory treatment, the practical dilemmas. The CME model's subject editors — the Augsburg, Bonn, Basel, Homburg professors — guarantee the scientific responsibility: the certification regulations' "wissenschaftlich verantwortlich". Its volume numbering: volume 3 in 2009 (as "Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie up2date"), volume 7 in 2013 (as "PSYCH up2date"), volume 18 in 2024 — the journal's nearly two decades. Its article types: the CME-Artikel (the guideline-based reviews with "Kernaussagen"), the Editorial, the Pro/Con-Debatte, the Fallvignette, the Studienreferate. Its currency: the 2024 issues — the psychedelics' renaissance, the psychosomatic congress, the dementia studies.

History

The journal's history begins around 2007 — the launch as "Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie up2date" (volume 3 in 2009). The late-2000s founding's context: the CME's institutionalisation in German medicine — the certified further training's points system, the specialist journals' Fortbildung mission — creating the audience for a dedicated psychiatry CME journal. The 2000s CME: the physicians' mandatory continuing education — the points, the certificates, the audits — the journals' Fortbildung articles as the points' source. The psychiatry's knowledge explosion: the S3 guidelines, the neurobiology, the psychotherapy research — the practitioners' update need. The journal's founding — the "up2date" promise — served the psychiatrists' currency: the certified knowledge, the subject-edited reliability. The early issues (2009): the psychopathology's pro/con debate (Wolfgang Maier vs. Rolf-Dieter Stieglitz and Michael Rösler), the subject-edited reviews. By 2013 the journal had become "PSYCH up2date" (volume 7) — the rename's streamlined brand. The 2010s: the S3 guidelines' CME articles (the schizophrenia guideline's 2019 update), the editorials on the psychotherapy schools (Fritz Hohagen, 2018), the Psychiatrie-Enquete's 45th anniversary (2019). The S3 schizophrenia guideline's 2019 update — the multiprofessional diagnostics and therapy, the antipsychotic monotherapy plus cognitive behavioural therapy — was the CME article's model: the guideline translated into practice. The psychotherapy schools' 2018 editorial — the behaviour therapy's and depth psychology's split, the training market's financial interests — was the profession's self-criticism. The Psychiatrie-Enquete's 45th anniversary — the 1975 reform's legacy, the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung's 2019 position paper — was the reform's commemoration. The 2020s: the psychedelics' renaissance (psilocybin in treatment-resistant depression, 2024), the ICPM world congress in Tübingen (Stephan Zipfel, 2024). The psychedelics' renaissance — the psilocybin's phase-2 studies, the JAMA publications — was the CME's frontier: the treatment-resistant depression's new hope. The ICPM world congress — the International College of Psychosomatic Medicine's 2024 Tübingen meeting, "Advancing Psychosomatic Medicine in a Challenging World" — was the psychosomatics' global gathering: the second German hosting since 1983. The publisher throughout: the Georg Thieme Verlag KG, Stuttgart.

Coverage and Content

The journal's programme is the psychiatric continuing education's full spectrum. The CME articles: the guideline-based reviews — the S3 schizophrenia guideline's 2019 update (Alkomiet Hasan, Astrid Röh, Wolfgang Gaebel), the multiprofessional diagnostics and therapy. The schizophrenia CME article's key messages — the updated S3 guideline's recommendations, the antipsychotic monotherapy plus cognitive behavioural therapy, the tolerability's primacy ("Die Unterschiede in der Verträglichkeit sind größer als die Unterschiede in der Wirksamkeit"), the clozapine before combination therapy — show the CME article's craft: the guideline's essence, the practice's guidance. The "Kernaussagen" — the key messages — are the articles' signature: the busy physicians' takeaways. The psychopharmacology: the antidementia drugs' long-term effects, the antipsychotics' tolerability. The psychotherapy: the schools' debate (Fritz Hohagen's 2018 editorial — the behaviour therapy vs. depth psychology split), the psychedelics' renaissance. The debates: the Pro/Con-Debatte — the psychopathology's future, the polarising questions answered differentially. The 2009 pro/con debate — "Ist die (klassische) Psychopathologie tot?" — Wolfgang Maier (Bonn) vs. Rolf-Dieter Stieglitz (Basel) and Michael Rösler (Homburg) — was the journal's early signature: the provocative question, the differentiated answers, the readers' own judgment. The pro/con format — the "bilden Sie sich Ihr eigenes Urteil" — is the CME's dialectic: the controversy made educational. The cases: the Fallvignette — the compulsory treatment's 2013 debate, the practical dilemmas vignetted. The 2013 case vignette — the forced treatment's ban as the stigmatisation's "massiver Auswuchs", the Bundestag's 2013 guardianship-law reform — was the journal's ethical edge: the psychiatry's coercion debate. The vignette format — the "Was kann man aus diesem Fall lernen?" — is the CME's casuistry: the single case's general lesson. The studies: the Studienreferate — the recent research summarised, the antidementia drugs' long-term effects, the psychedelics' phase-2 trials. The study summaries — the JAMA's psilocybin trial, the Alzheimer's antidementia retrospection — are the CME's research watch: the busy physicians' literature service. The editorials: the profession's commentary — the Psychiatrie-Enquete, the psychosomatic congress, the psychotherapy schools. The 2018 Hohagen editorial — the psychotherapy schools' dominance, the training market's lucrativeness — was the profession's self-examination. The 2019 Hüll editorial — the Psychiatrie-Enquete's 45th anniversary, the 1200-bed asylums' "Gruselkabinett" — was the reform's memory. The 2024 Zipfel editorial — the ICPM's Tübingen congress — was the psychosomatics' global moment. The journalism is the CME journal's: the certified, the subject-edited, the guideline-based — for the psychiatrists' continuing education, the "up2date" promise since the late 2000s.

Organization and Ownership

PSYCH up2date is published by the Georg Thieme Verlag KG, Rüdigerstraße 14, 70469 Stuttgart. The CME model: each article's subject editor — scientifically responsible per the certification regulations (e.g. Prof. Dr. med. Alkomiet Hasan, Augsburg, for the schizophrenia CME article). The subject editors' role — the "wissenschaftlich verantwortlich gemäß Zertifizierungsbestimmungen" — is the CME's quality guarantee: the named professor's responsibility for the article's scientific accuracy. The certification compliance — the points' validity — depends on the model: the physicians' trust in the journal's Fortbildung. The Thieme CME system — the e-journals' platform, the DOI-indexed articles — professionalises the continuing education: the digital points, the online-first publication. Editorial contributors over the years include Fritz Hohagen, Michael Hüll and Stephan Zipfel (editorials). Current editor-in-chief details are not publicly confirmed in the sources available.

Digital Presence

The journal's home is the Thieme e-journals platform — thieme-connect.com — with the DOI-indexed articles (10.1055/...) and the online-first publication. In the German psychiatric media landscape PSYCH up2date occupies the CME-journal pole: the Thieme continuing-education journal — the certification-compliant articles, the subject editors, the volume-18-in-2024 continuity — on thieme-connect.com, the psychiatrists' Fortbildung journal, Thieme's CME voice since the late 2000s, the certified psychiatry update, subject-edited and guideline-based, the psychiatrists' continuing companion, up2date since 2007, always certified. The CME-journal positioning — the certified points — is the title's utility: the physicians' mandatory education. The subject-editor model — the named professors' responsibility — is the title's credibility: the certification regulations' compliance. The Thieme imprint — the Stuttgart medical publisher — is the title's continuity: the nearly two decades' Fortbildung.