Address:
249 Center for Psychiatric Medicine
1713 6th Avenue South
Birmingham, AL 35294-0018
Telephone: (205) 934-7008 or 1-800-782-1133
Mission: To promote patient care, research and education in the field of adult psychiatry.
Programs and Services:
- Comprehensive inpatient and outpatient services
- Tertiary care for treatment resistant affective disorder, including ECT therapy
- Dialectic Behavioral Therapy Program
- Expertise in the Adult ADHD patient
- A broad array of psychotherapy including intensive psychotherapy, psychopharmacology psychoanalysis, and cognitive-behavioral therapy
- Forensic psychiatry
- Active research program in schizophrenia
- Anxiety disorders including OCD, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and Panic Disorder
- Treatment of impaired professionals including, medical, legal, other professionals
Accomplishments:
- The Adult Division has eight psychiatrists and one psychologist, all of whom specialize in adult psychiatry
- Located in a world class hospital with a wide array of other specialties available for complicated diagnostic problems
- Unique among university-based adult psychiatric treatment centers, one of the Adult Division’s psychiatrists is trained as a psychoanalyst. This clinician is highly qualified to work with those patients whose treatment requires in-depth psychotherapy. Clinicians have years of experience in conducting intensive psychotherapy with patients who present with a broad spectrum of emotional problems.