Professor of Psychiatry and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry Ehud Klein MD

The Mental Health Division is made up of an inpatient ward, a day treatment unit, ambulatory mental health services, a psychogeriatric service, a child and adolescent psychiatry service and consultation-liaison services. The division provides diagnostic and treatment services for all psychiatric disorders in a wide range of settings. The treatment model is eclectic, and sophisticated biological treatments are provided wherever indicated. All treatment is intensive and personal, under the responsibility of the personal psychiatric physician.

Clinical areas of activity include, among others: diagnosis, provision of appropriate treatment including psychotherapeutic treatment, case management, psychodiagnostic testing, consultation services to the emergency medicine unit and all hospital departments, and diverse forms of consultation and support to community services. Special clinics in the outpatients’ service include Eating Disorders, Anxiety Disorders, Resistant Psychosis and Bipolar Disorders. Group therapy is widely available in all services. In addition, the division runs a special psychiatric project sponsored by the Ministry of Defense, providing mental health services to some 350 psychiatrically disabled military veterans.

The department staff includes 14 senior physicians, 6 residents, 29 psychologists, 17 social workers, 7 occupational, art and other therapists, and a staff of 18 nurses.

Alongside its clinical activities, the Mental Health Division participates actively and vigorously in the teaching of medical students, residents and paramedical students. The division has a wide range of ongoing funded research projects in various clinical and preclinical areas related to psychiatry.