DGPPN Kongress 2026

More than 500 sessions, including workshops, state-of-the-art symposia, discussion forums, lectures, symposia, poster presentations and presidential symposia, address psychiatry, psychotherapy, nursing and other health professions. Focus topics are DGPPN recommendations for future-oriented psychiatric, psychotherapeutic and psychosocial care; human and machine, that is, artificial intelligence in the treatment of mental disorders; the modular further development of psychotherapy; and autonomy, well-being and safety as guard rails of psychiatry. The congress opens on 25 November 2026 at 10:15 at CityCube Berlin and runs until 28 November 2026, with sessions daily from 08:30 to 19:30 and until 13:30 on Saturday. About 10,000 participants are expected from psychiatry, psychotherapy, nursing, other health professions and medical disciplines, together with students, people with lived experience of mental illness and their relatives.