The Department of Psychiatry is committed to providing the highest quality patient care in a compassionate, safe and patient-focused manner.
Acute Psychiatry Service (APS)
The MGH Acute Psychiatry Service (APS) is located within the MGH Emergency Department. We are a 24-hour state-of-the-art service that provides diagnosis and treatment of acute psychiatric and neuropsychiatric emergencies to about 5,000 patients per year.
Addiction Medicine
The MGH-Harvard Center for Addiction Medicine delivers clinical evaluation, consultation, and study-related clinical care in a multidisciplinary setting.
Addiction Recovery Management Service (ARMS)
provides rapid access to information and support combined with outreach and care management for youth aged 15 - 25 and their families suffering from substance-related problems.
Anxiety & Traumatic Stress Disorders
The mission of the Center for Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Disorders (CATSD) at MGH is to conduct state-of-the-art research aimed at improving the standard of care for people suffering from anxiety disorders.
Autism-The Alan & Lorraine Bressler Clinical and Research Program for Autism Spectrum Disorders
The Alan and Lorraine Bressler Clinical and Research Program for Autism Spectrum Disorders is dedicated to improving the clinical care of children and adults with autism spectrum disorders, to advance the education of patients, families and service providers about these conditions, and to expand the scientific understanding of these disorders.
Behavioral Medicine
The Behavioral Medicine Service at Massachusetts General Hospital is housed in the Department of Psychiatry (Psychology). Our services include clinical, research, and training activities that focus on the intersection of psychology and health. Treatment programs and treatment development research emphasizes validated, state-of-the art, empirically-informed cognitive-behavioral interventions.
Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine
The Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital is a world leader in the study, advancement, and clinical practice of mind/body medicine.
Bipolar Clinic & Research Program
We have three missions at our clinic. We are dedicated to: providing quality clinical care, conducting clinically informative research, and educating our colleages, our patients, as well as the greater community about bipolar disorder.
Body Dysmorphic Disorder Clinic & Research Unit
The Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) Clinic & Research Unit at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School was founded in 1998 by Sabine Wilhelm, Ph.D. Currently, this is one of the few clinics in the United States, and the only clinic in Boston, specializing in the treatment and research of BDD.
Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)
The mission of the Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) Program is to inform and educate healthcare professionals, students, and the general public about CBT, further CBT research, and provide advanced clinical care to patients in the context of CBT.
Community Health Center: Charlestown
The MGH Center for Community Health Improvement collaborates with community and hospital partners to build and sustain healthier communities, and to enhance the hospital's responsiveness to patients and community members from diverse backgrounds.
Community Health Center: Revere
The MGH Center for Community Health Improvement collaborates with community and hospital partners to build and sustain healthier communities, and to enhance the hospital's responsiveness to patients and community members from diverse backgrounds.
Depression Clinical & Research Program (DCRP)
The DCRP is considered one of the leading centers for the study of Unipolar Depressive Disorders worldwide.
Eating Disorders Clinical & Research Program
Our mission is to provide and to model excellent clinical care for patients and families affected by an eating disorder. The MGH Eating Disorders Clinical and Research Program is also committed to the generation and dissemination of knowledge for understanding, preventing, and treating eating disorders through clinical consultation, professional training, and research.
Gerontology Research
The Geriatric Neurobehavioral Clinic at Massachusetts General Hospital offers a multidisciplinary and individualized approach to the diagnosis of persons with memory disorders. Designed to provide outpatient diagnosis, the clinic is able to evaluate and treat individuals with a range of difficulties.
Group Psychotherapy Center
Group psychotherapy is a form of therapy in which a small number of people generally meet weekly under the leadership of a trained therapist to help themselves and one another. In group therapy people learn about themselves and improve their interpersonal relationships.
Harris Center
Dedicated to expanding knowledge about eating disorders, their detection, treatment, and prevention - and promoting the healthy development of children, women, and all at risk.
Harvard Program for Refugee Trauma
The Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma has spent 25 years caring for the health and mental needs of survivors of mass violence and torture through a combined practice of clinical experience and medical research.
Inpatient Psychiatric Service
The Inpatient Psychiatric Service (IPS), located at Massachusetts General Hospital, is a 24-bed short-term secure medical psychiatric unit. Our service is licensed to treat adults 19 years and older who require psychiatric treatment in an acute inpatient setting. Given our location in a general hospital setting, access to many of the world’s experts in medical and surgical specialties, and the advanced training of our own staff, we are able to provide concurrent treatment of psychiatric disorders and co-existing medical conditions. In addition, our unit serves as a site of clinical research within the Department of Psychiatry, investigating and offering access to cutting edge psychiatric interventions.
International Division
The mission of the Division of International Psychiatry at MGH is to make clinical, educational and research contributions to world mental health and to help reduce the global burden of disease by learning from our neighbors and by contributing what we know to better relieve the suffering from mental illnesses around the world.
Law & Psychiatry Service
The Law & Psychiatry Service (LPS) is a forensic mental health consulting, training, and research practice within the MGH Department of Psychiatry and Harvard Medical School.
Learning & Education Assessment Program (L.E.A.P.)
The LEAP program seeks to expand access to high-quality, comprehensive, coordinated, neuropsychological assessment services.
Neurotherapeutics
The MGH Psychiatric Neurotherapeutics Program encompasses the clinical, research and training activities related to device-based treatments for psychiatric disorders.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (O.C.D.)
The mission of the MGH OCD Clinic & Research Unit is to inform the public, advance research, and provide advanced clinical care and treatment for individuals with OCD and related disorders.
Outpatient Child Psychiatry Services
Our staff provides comprehensive evaluation and treatment of children and adolescents with the full spectrum of psychiatric conditions and behavioral or emotional difficulties.
Outpatient Psychiatry Services
We offer clinical care, teaching, and research focusing on specific clinical disorders and treatment techniques.
P.A.C.E.S. Institute (Performance And Character Excellence in Sports)
The MGH Sport Psychology mission is to promote healthy psychological functioning, character, and optimal athletic performance for athletes of all ages.
Parenting at a Challenging Time (PACT)
The Marjorie E. Korff PACT Program offers guidance to parents with cancer who receive treatment at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and are concerned about the impact their cancer diagnosis and treatment may have on their children.
Pediatric Psychopharmacology Clinical & Research Program
Our goal is to advance the well being of children and families afflicted with mental illness through clinical care, education and research.
Performance And Character Excellence in Sports Institute (P.A.C.E.S.)
P.A.C.E.S mission is to promote healthy psychological functioning, character, and optimal athletic performance for athletes of all ages. This program also provides guidance to parents, coaches, and administrators who support them.
Psychiatric & Neurodevelopment Genetics Unit (P.N.G.U.)
The PNGU is focused on psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders including Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (GTS), Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), autism and related disorders, specific reading disability (dyslexia) and bipolar affective disorder.
Psychiatric Medicine Consultation Service
The Division is comprised of several distinct programs, each with a primary mission to provide the best medical psychiatric care for medically and surgically ill patients and also the best consultative support to the medical and surgical staffs.
Psychiatric Neuroscience
The Psychiatric Neuroscience Division is comprised of several programs, encompassing research, training and clinical services to advance the understanding of psychiatric diseases and to develop improved treatment.
Psychiatry & Medicine
The Division of Psychiatry & Medicine integrates specialized psychiatry and medical services while maintaining their diverse characters and strengths.
Psychology Assessment Center (P.A.C.)
The Psychology Assessment Center provides psychological and neuropsychological assessment for the diagnosis and treatment of disorders that affect intellectual, cognitive, academic, personality and emotional status.
Psychotherapy Research Program
The Psychotherapy Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital was formed in 1999 to study the process and outcome of psychotherapy empirically.
Schizophrenia Program
The Schizophrenia Program offers a wide range of clinical services in addition to offering a unique international consultation service to patients and their families.
Think:Kids
Think:Kids is a program that trains adults in a revolutionary new way of helping kids with social, emotional, and behavioral challenges.
Tic Disorders
The Tic Disorders Clinic & Research Unit at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School is one of only a few clinics in the United States specializing in the treatment and research of Tourette Syndrome (TS) and related tic disorders.
Trichotillomania
Trichotillomania (TTM) is currently classified as an impulse control disorder in the 4th Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. However, it also shares features with obsessive-compulsive disorder and other obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders such as self-injurious skin picking.
West End Clinic
The West End Clinic is an outpatient facility for those with alcohol and drug addictions or other co-occurring mental health disorders and other types of addictive behaviors.
Women's Mental Health
Welcome to the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Women’s Mental Health, a perinatal and reproductive psychiatry information center.
Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine
The Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine is a non-profit scientific and educational organization dedicated to research, teaching, and clinical application of mind body medicine and its integration into all areas of health
The Center for Mental Health & The Media
The mission of the Center for Mental Health and Media is to save lives, comfort and educate families, and to change the public's outdated and inaccurate perceptions of the nature, causes and treatment of mental illness.
