About Psychiatrische Praxis

Psychiatrische Praxis

Psychiatrische Praxis is the German-language scientific journal for social psychiatry, clinical psychiatry, public mental health and health-services research — "eine fixe Größe in der deutschsprachigen psychiatrischen Forschungslandschaft". Founded in 1974 as a child of the Psychiatriereform, it entered its fiftieth year with the first issue of 2023. The journal's distinction: its specific content spectrum — Sozialpsychiatrie, Klinische Psychiatrie, Public Mental Health, Versorgungsforschung — and its extraordinary editorial continuity: only three managing editors (geschäftsführende Herausgeber) in 50 years — Hans Klaus Rose, Asmus Finzen and Steffi Riedel-Heller. The publisher: the Georg Thieme Verlag KG, Rüdigerstraße 14, 70469 Stuttgart.

Overview

Psychiatrische Praxis is a German-language peer-reviewed journal for psychiatry's social and services dimensions. Its format: the scientific journal — original articles (Originalarbeiten), editorials, the psychiatry-history section. Its scope: the social psychiatry (Sozialpsychiatrie), the clinical psychiatry (Klinische Psychiatrie), the public mental health, the health-services research (Versorgungsforschung) — the spectrum in the journal's title. Its history: founded 1974, the fiftieth year in 2023 — the Psychiatriereform's child, scientifically and discursively accompanying the reform and emancipating itself from it (as Asmus Finzen wrote in 2003). Its continuity: three managing editors in 50 years — Hans Klaus Rose, Asmus Finzen, Steffi Riedel-Heller — "wohl den Kontinuitätspreis unter den Fachzeitschriften". Its audience: the psychiatric researchers, the social psychiatrists, the services researchers, the public-mental-health scientists. The researchers publish the original articles: the trauma concepts, the attitudes' surveys. The social psychiatrists read the community care: the Hilfsvereine, the family care. The services researchers read the care structures: the StäB, the patient-centred vision. The public-mental-health scientists read the population's attitudes: the prejudice research, the stigma. The journal's "fixe Größe" — the fixed institution — serves the German-language psychiatric research's identity: the social psychiatry's forum, Thieme's journal since 1974, the reform's scientific voice, the social psychiatry's memory, the services research's forum, the public mental health's journal, the "fixe Größe", the German psychiatry's research landscape, since 1974, the reform's child and heir, the social psychiatry's journal, still publishing, the "fixe Größe" of the field, the reform's legacy, the social psychiatry's chronicle, still being written, the social psychiatry's journal, the reform's child, the "fixe Größe", still the reform's heir.

History

The journal's history begins in 1974 — the first volume, with Hans Klaus Rose's "Zielsetzung" (Psychiatr Prax 1974; 1: 1-3) and Wolfgang Stumme's prejudice-research discussion (1974; 1: 4-10). The 1974 founding's context: the Psychiatriereform — the 1975 Psychiatrie-Enquete's preparation, the asylums' critique, the community psychiatry's rise — creating the journal as the reform's scientific companion. The early-1970s psychiatry: the 1200-bed asylums, the 1:78 doctor-patient ratio, the year-long stays — the "Gruselkabinett" the Enquete would document. The reform movement: the social psychiatry's pioneers, the antipsychiatry's critique, the community services' models — the asylums' dissolution. The journal's founding — Hans Klaus Rose's "Zielsetzung" — gave the reform its scientific voice: the first volume's prejudice research, the care's documentation. The early years: the reform's documentation — the prejudice research, the care structures. The 2003 thirtieth year: Asmus Finzen's retrospective — the journal's emancipation from the reform. The 2023 fiftieth year: the "In eigener Sache" editorial — the journal as the German-language psychiatric research's fixed institution, the three managing editors' continuity. Over five decades the journal published the social psychiatry's key debates: the trauma concepts since 1889 (Stefan Priebe, 2002), the psychiatric institutions' names (Dirk Carius, 2003), the violence's dilemma (Tilman Steinert, 2002), the family care's history (Astrid Lerner, 2011), the economisation's effects on schizophrenia attitudes (2022), the StäB's patient-centred vision (2022). The trauma concepts' 2002 article — Oppenheim's 1889 "traumatische Neurose" to the PTSD's American import — was the psychiatry-history's model: the concepts' discontinuities. The institutions' names' 2003 article — from "Narrenhaus" to "Fachkrankenhaus" — was the language's archaeology: the destigmatisation's vocabulary. The violence dilemma's 2002 editorial — the reform's well-meaning violence — was the profession's self-criticism.

Coverage and Content

The journal's programme is the social psychiatry's full spectrum. The social psychiatry: the community care, the Hilfsvereine's history (the Württemberg association's archive), the family care (Leipzig-Dösen 1904–1940). The Hilfsvereine — the psychiatric aid associations — the post-discharge care's pioneers: the individual cases and family support until 1945, the project work after the 1960s. The family care — Georg Lehmann's 1904 Leipzig-Dösen model — the extramural care's history: the war's disruptions, the T-4's shadow. The community care's history — the journal's archive — is the social psychiatry's memory: the reform's prehistory. The clinical psychiatry: the trauma concepts (Oppenheim 1889 to PTSD), the violence's dilemma, the family care's history. The 2002 violence editorial — the "Dilemma of Violence in Psychiatry" — the reform's well-meaning metamorphoses: the 19th century's torture-like methods, the 20th century's large asylums, the T-4. The clinical psychiatry's spectrum — the journal's title — serves the practice's reflection: the history's red thread. The public mental health: the population's attitudes — the prejudice research, the schizophrenia stigma, the economisation's implications. The 1974 prejudice research — Wolfgang Stumme's discussion contribution — was the journal's founding theme: the population's prejudices against the mentally ill. The 2022 economisation study — the social's economisation, the self-optimisation's compulsion — was the stigma's contemporary analysis: the neoliberalism's attitudes. The public mental health's spectrum — the journal's title — serves the population's mental health: the attitudes' research, the stigma's reduction. The services research: the care structures — the StäB (stationsäquivalente Behandlung), the patient-centred vision. The StäB — the hospital-equivalent home treatment — the 2022 article's vision: the patient-centred care's future. The services research's spectrum — the Versorgungsforschung in the title — serves the care's evidence: the structures' evaluation, the reforms' assessment. The history: the psychiatry-history section — the institutions' names, the asylums' archaeology, the trauma concepts' discontinuities. The 2002 trauma article — the "Trauma and Psyche in German Psychiatry since 1889" — the concepts' Wechsel, Wiederholungen und Diskontinuität. The 2003 names article — the "Madhouse, Asylum, Retreat, Specialist Hospital" — the designations' genesis. The history section — the journal's distinctive rubric — serves the profession's memory: the past's lessons for the present's debates. The journalism is the scientific journal's: the peer-reviewed, the reform-rooted, the socially engaged — for the psychiatric research landscape, the social psychiatry's forum since 1974.

Organization and Ownership

Psychiatrische Praxis is published by the Georg Thieme Verlag KG, Rüdigerstraße 14, 70469 Stuttgart. The managing editors in 50 years: Hans Klaus Rose (the founder, 1974), Asmus Finzen, Steffi Riedel-Heller (current). The Rose era — the founding, the reform's accompaniment — established the journal's mission: the social psychiatry's scientific voice. The Finzen era — the 2003 thirtieth-year retrospective — emancipated the journal from the reform: the "sich von ihr emanzipiert". The Riedel-Heller era — the public mental health, the social embeddedness — continues the spectrum: the Sozialpsychiatrie, Klinische Psychiatrie, Public Mental Health, Versorgungsforschung. The three-editors continuity — the "Kontinuitätspreis" — is the journal's institutional memory: the half-century's stewardship. Current editorial-board details beyond the managing editorship 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 Psychiatrische Praxis occupies the social-psychiatry journal pole: the 1974-founded journal — the reform's child, the three managing editors' continuity, the "fixe Größe" — on thieme-connect.com, the social psychiatry's journal, the reform's child since 1974, the "fixe Größe", the three editors' half-century, the social psychiatry's forum. The social-psychiatry positioning — the Sozialpsychiatrie, Public Mental Health, Versorgungsforschung — is the title's distinction: the spectrum in the title. The reform's child — the 1974 founding, the 2003 emancipation — is the title's biography: the reform accompanied and transcended. The three-editors continuity — the "Kontinuitätspreis" — is the title's institutional memory: the half-century's stewardship.