Our department strives to provide patient-centered psychiatric care, dealing with life cycle issues (workers, students, children and adolescents, pregnant women, geriatrics, etc.) and a mental disorder (depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, developmental disorders, anxiety, personality disorders, dementia, etc.).

From the time our department was established, practical clinical work against a background of psychoanalysis and dynamic psychiatry has been carried out and has achieved significant clinical therapeutic results. In addition to psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, evidence-based clinical treatment was also emphasized.

The wards consist of closed and open wards, and through desirable therapeutic interactions between staff and patients, individual drugs/psychiatric treatment and various group therapy activities were carried out. All the staff in the wards constantly have some kind of interaction with patients and strive to maintain a therapeutic environment.

Daycare is the first service established in the university hospital psychiatric department, and rigorous programs are created, corresponding to the state of individual patients and therapeutic outcomes.

In addition, as a psychiatry department in a general hospital, we strive to contribute to psychiatric issues in all departments in the hospital and mental issues specific to the life cycle. Liaison and consultation services are also provided by Fukuoka University Chikushi Hospital. In recent years, we have also been making attempts at suicide prevention, mainly by intervening with suicide attempt victims admitted to the Emergency Medical Center and dealing with bereaved families of suicide victims, and we have achieved some success. Furthermore, our university hospital psychiatry department is actively introducing electroconvulsive therapy and clozapine treatment for treatment-resistant disorders with the cooperation of related departments.