The Department of Psychiatry provides psychiatric care for medical, surgical and ob/gyn inpatients and outpatients who receive their health care from BWH physicians. The Department is divided into three major clinical services: the Medical Psychiatry Service, which provides consultation and co-management of psychiatric disorders to medical, surgical and ob/gyn inpatients at the hospital; the Outpatient Psychiatry Service, which provides a variety of outpatient treatment modalities to patients referred by their BWH physician for integrated health and mental health care; and the Addictions Psychiatry Service, which provides consultation and co-management of co-morbid substance abuse problems occurring in medical, surgical and ob/gyn inpatients as well as consultation to primary care providers about the substance abuse problems of their patients.
The Brigham and Women’s Hospital Department of Psychiatry has recently begun a process of integration with Psychiatry at the Faulkner Hospital into a single Brigham and Women's/Faulkner Hospitals Department of Psychiatry. With the addition of the inpatient and partial hospital services available at Faulkner, the integrated BW/F Department of Psychiatry has the full spectrum of services necessary to provide comprehensive mental health and substance abuse care. For more information on the Faulkner Hospital Department of Psychiatry, please click here.
The Psychiatry Department provides subspecialty expertise in a number of areas at the medicine/psychiatry interface and works collaboratively with the other specialists on epilepsy, brain tumors, cardiac disease, heart transplantation, bone marrow transplantation, burn/trauma, AIDS, pregnancy-related disorders, and a variety of malignancy and end-of-life issues.
Outpatient individual, group, family, and couples evaluation and treatment are available with a variety of psychotherapeutic modalities including psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral and interpersonal treatment; advanced and complex psychopharmacology; and neuropsychiatric evaluation and neuropsychological testing. Subspecialty outpatient units focus on psychopharmacology and Women's Psychiatric Services. In addition, Psychiatry specialists provide direct care, and consult and collaborate with physicians in BWH primary care settings at the hospital and its external care network.
Finally, with the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Department of Neurology, the Department co-sponsors the Brigham Behavioral Neurology Group which provides subspecialty evaluation and treatment of complex neuropsychiatric disorders.
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