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The ten most recent publications of IMEHPS are listed below.
Some of them can be found online.
(1) Manual for a family school for living with schizophrenia (in German):
Katschnig H., Niedermayer G.: Die Pension Bettina in Wien. Eine Familienschule für das Leben mit Schizophrenie. Konzept – Organisation – Evaluation. Ein Handbuch. Im Auftrag von VSW. IMEHPS, Wien, Mai 2026.
(2) On the role of familiy carers for persons diagnosed with schizophrenia (in German):
Katschnig, H.: Wie "Ungehörige" zu selbstbewussten Angehörigen wurden. Eine Spurensuche. Kontakt 1 (2026) 6-9
(3) On gender issues of family carers for persons diagnosed with schizophrenia:
Report on a project on behalf of HPE Austria (in German)
(4) On psychiatric rehabilitation (in German):
Lenz G., Amering M., Katschnig H.: Kapitel 7.2.2 – Psychiatrische Rehabilitation. In: Klein H.E., Pajonk F.-G.B., Waller C., Wirsching, M. (Hrsg.): Facharztprüfung Psychiatrie, Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie: 1500 kommentierte Prüfungsfragen. 5. aktualisierte Auflage. Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart – New York (2025) 365-373
(5) On mourning and depression (in German):
Katschnig H.: Trauer und Depression. In: Redelsteiner C., Renner P., Schmid T. (Hrsg): Das Eichhörnchenprinzip. Festschrift für Monika Vyslouzil. LIT Verlag Wien (2025) 159-166
(6) Heinz Katschnig being interviewed (in German) in:
Felicitas Söhner, Thomas Becker, Michael von Cranach: Konstruktive Empörung. Michael von Cranach und die Psychiatrie. Psychiatrie Verlag, Köln (2024) (Oral history)
(7) On the influence of early post-discharge ambulatory contacts on the psychiatric re-hospitalisation rate:
Katschnig H., Straßmayr C., Endel F., Posch M., Steiner I.: Are early post-discharge physician contacts associated with 30-day psychiatric re-hospitalisation? A nationwide claims data based retrospective cohort study in Austria free of immortal time bias. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research 2023;e1983. https://doi.org/10.1002/mpr.1983
(8) On the difference between "infectious" grief and "cold" grief (in Italian):
Katschnig H.: Orfeo e il dolore contagioso e freddo. Depressione Stop 3 (Dicembre 2023) 58-61
(9) On a family school for learning how to live with schizophrenia:
Katschnig H, Sint P. Late 'Early Intervention in Psychosis': A Family School for Learning How to Live with Schizophrenia. Consortium Psychiatricum. 2021;2(3):3-16. DOI:10.17816/CP99
(10) On mental illness and the corona lockdown (in German):
"Mentally ill during the corona lockdown"
Final report to the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF),
COVID-19 Rapid Response Call 2020, Project number COV20-032