Our Vision and our Mission

The Swiss Society of Interventional Psychiatry (SSIP) has been active since 2016, initially as a task force under the wing of the Swiss Society of Biological Psychiatry (SSBP) then as a branch of the Swiss Society of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (SSPP). The Society includes research and clinical psychiatrists from both university hospital and private practice settings who have extensive clinical and research experience in neurostimulation techniques.

The vision of our Society is that in psychiatry the use of interventional treatment methods such as transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) or deep brain stimulation (DBS) will be as self-evident as the use of psychotropic drugs or psychotherapy.

The mission of the Society is to foster the safe, ethical and effective use of neurostimulation techniques and to develop novel indications and recommendations for best practice guidelines in neurostimulation. 

For the purpose of training, the Society has received the approval of the FMH for an official neurostimulation postgraduate training with certification. The society also supervises the yearly needed training to assure an ethical and effective use of these techniques for the treatment of neuropsychiatric illnesses  as well as organizing  symposia and workshops on the use of neurostimulation techniques. The Society will work on expanding health insurance coverage for brain stimulation techniques and increase public awareness of these techniques.