Psychopharmacotherapy is the medication treatment of psychiatric illnesses. Psychiatric illnesses involve metabolic disorders in the brain that impair attention, concentration, emotions or logical and abstract thought processes. Specific medications are used to compensate for these disorders in order to be able to act within a normal and healthy framework again and to use emotions in a largely controlled manner.
In psychopharmacotherapy, you receive medication that affects brain metabolism. How these medications are absorbed or broken down and how they work is very individual.
Psychotropic drugs have side effects that are well known, usually harmless and easy to control. We will discuss with you all medications suggested for therapy with regard to the expected effect and possible side effects. It is determined together which of the available psychotropic drugs will be selected for the individual therapy.
All medications used have been tested for safety after many preliminary investigations as part of large studies and have been approved for use on patients by the national authority. Various psychotropic drugs with very different effects on symptoms, emotional experiences, behavior, thinking and cognitive functions are used to increase the quality of life of patients.
