Areas

Psychiatry in adults

  • Depressive disturbances.
  • Anxious disturbances(phobias)-specific phobias ,social phobias,agoraphobics, panic attacks ,oppressive-compulsive disturbances, anxious disturbances related to stress, post-traumatic stress reactions.
  • Psychoanalytical disorder as well as physical disorders caused by stress.
  • Emotional disturbances caused by stress(Cardiovascular diseases , hypertensive, Stomach ulcer,gastrointestinal disturbances…).Hypochondria.
  • Psychotically disorders(Schizophrenia,Bipolar effective disorders,Reactive psychoanalytical conditions…)
  • Emotional disturbances caused by problems to adapt to new life circumstances and challenges conditions(Problems at work,separation,divorce, disease ,retirement,moving to another place,t own,state for living;change of work or working conditions,emotional loss,partner problems…)
  • Partner counselling,marriage and Family counselling.
  • Parental counselling(preparing parents for the child birth,pregnancy support and counselling, labor and child education,increasing of the parental skills, different styles in upbringing…)
  • Counselling,help and support to the family whose member have mental or somatic diseases.
  • Psychological counseling and individual psychotherapy in adults.
  • Psychological evaluation -estimation of the cognitive functioning,personal characteristics and functioning,evaluation of the actual psychic status and detection of the eventual menthal disorder,differential diagnostics in mental diseases.

Child and adolescent pychiatry

  • Assessment of the psycho-motor development of the child, as well as intellectual and socio-emotional functioning of children aged from 2-16 years.
  • Developmental changes (Baby birth, starting kindergarten, starting school,first time separation from parents and family, birth of a younger brother or sister, puberty and adolescence…)
  • Life Crisis (Relocation, parental divorce, death of the family member,family member or child disease)
  • -Different problems in childhood which provokes child daily malfunctioning (Fears, enuresis, unsuccessful in school, conflicts with peers, remoteness, aggressive behavior, problems with activities and attention, pervasive developmental disturbances.
  • Different problems in adolescents that impact their functioning (lack of success in school, problems with peers, conflicts with parents, aggressive and rebellious behavior, despondency, remoteness, tenseness, fears, low level of self-respect, adolescent crisis, self-harming, nutritional problems, impulsive reaction.

Psychodiagnostic of adolescents

  • Psychodiagnostic of adolescents entails an assessment of adolescents with different psychological problems and psychopathological disturbances. This form of assessment is very important for the creation of an adapted and personalized therapeutical plan, which is furthermore implemented by different and specialized members of the team according to the particular needs and capacities of the adolescents.
  • Psychological assessment of the individual intellectual capacity, personality, interesses, motivation and working performances of adolescents.
  • Evaluation of the individual intellectual capabilities and personal structure, motivation and future professional interests s in adolescents in support of projecting the future professional orientation.
  • The assessment of individual capabilities and the personality is objective and performed by standardized tests and other psychological procedures (observation,interview) by the medical psychologist highly educated for psychological testing as wel as for interpretation of the results.The results are reported to parents and adolescent in oral and written form. There is a possibility for future counselling according to the obtained data.
  • Psychological evaluation and testing can be demanded by the:
    • 1.psychiatrist -for the purpose of clinical evaluation.
    • 2.Neurologist-for the purpose of the evaluation of the level of cognitive functioning or severity of cerebral injury.
    • 3.Court-for example in the situation of divorce for evaluation of parental custody
    • 4.Other Institutions(School,Social centers)
    • 5.Employer
    • 6.Client

Counseling and psychotherapy

  • Individual psychotherapy of adolescents and younger adults.
  • Individual psychoeducative work and counseling with parents of- healthy adolescents, adolescents with chronic somatical diseases, adolescents in crisis or those with mental disturbances.
  • Professional support enables parents to :
    1. Better understand the developmental specificities and characteristics of their child in adolescence.
    2. Teach parents how to communicate with their children and develop and maintain positive emotional relations. It also teaches of how to impose a positive authority and to apply adequate technics and methods in the upbringing.
    3. Efficiently solve conflicts and problems in relation with their children.
    4. Establish a parental alliance , persistence, and harmonization in parental roles.
    5. Increase the competency feeling as a parent , and overcome the feeling of helplessness , guilt or fear in the parental role.

Pharmacotherapy of different psychological disorders in adolescence

Do not run away from and do not have fear of psychiatric drugs. Modern psychiatry has evidence-based proven that there is a biological etiology of different mental disorders. In these cases the therapy of choice is psychopharmaceutical medicaments.

  • Do these medications cause addiction?

    No, these medications do not cause addiction. Their pharmacological structure is safe.

  • Do these medications have any harming effect?

    No. Modern pharmacotherapy does not have any deleterious effects on psychological, mental or the somatical plan.

  • Why can these medications not be used for only a few weeks?

    In the first phase, psychotropic drugs are removing psychopathological symptoms. After that in the longer term they influence the remission period without symptoms). Even when you feel at your best you need to continue to take the medications to avoid the reactivation of the disease.

Telepsychiatry(Skype)

Clients temporary or permanently living abroad, those who cannot come in person or have no access to psychiatric practices have the possibility of psychotherapeutic work by Skype or other internet visual phone platforms. Those consultations must be made and fixed in advance.

Virtual Reality Therapy

The most up to date psychotherapist treatment of isolated fears and phobias

Virtual Psychotherapy is the modern way of treatment of anxiety ,fears and phobias , Post-traumatic stress reactions and wide variety of anxious disturbances and disorders.It is based on the principles of cognitive and behavioral psychotherapy.It enables the destination and cognitive restructuralisation.

Virtual psychotherapy uses realistic virtual environments .It simulates most environmental circumstances that cause phobia in a , for the patient, controlled, and safe conditions.

Welcome to the Ordinance with the Soul

About Us

„PINEL PH“ is a psychiatric ordination practice dedicated to consultation and treatment of all psychiatric and psychological diseases and disorders, except addiction disorders. Why have we chosen the name of Philippe Pinel for our psychiatric practice?

It is beacause we are treating each patient as an individual person, with his/her particular characteristics that are different from those we have in common, and that is exactly according to the conception of the father of modern psychiatry Philippe Pinel. It is also a consequence of our deep understanding of the trends in modern medicine – shifting from the industrial attitude to personalized medicine. This is of utmost importance in the understanding and treatment of mental disorders and diseases. Each psychiatric problem properly treated is a chance that a person becomes better, more mature, with a higher degree of self knowledge and self consciousness.

Our team is comprised of experienced clinical doctors, in the field of child and adolescent as well as adult psychiatry. We have considerate experience in the succsesfull teatment in a wide variety of psychiatric and psychological problems and diseases.

Why Philippe Pinel?

Philippe Pinel founded scientific psychiatry. He ignored previous theories about mental illness, relying on his own observations to guide treatments.

Pinel made humane changes to the conditions under which mentally ill people were held. Rather than being held in chains in squalid conditions, his patients were free to move about in clean, relatively pleasant environments.

He categorized different types of mental illness, recognizing some as curable and others as incurable, and documented therapies that had cured patients.

He promoted the idea that mentally ill people should be understood as individuals. He recommended that physicians should keep case notes on their patients, firstly to understand their illnesses, then to evaluate the effectiveness of treatments more reliably.

Philippe Pinel was born into a relatively prosperous family on April 20, 1745 in the French township of Jonquières. He was the first of his parents’ seven children.