The UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences is among the nation's foremost resources in the fields of child, adolescent, adult and geriatric mental health.

The UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences is among the nation's foremost resources in the fields of child, adolescent, adult, and geriatric mental health.

Welcome to the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco and the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute. Since our founding in 1943, our Department and Institute have emerged together as a leading academic and clinical resource in the fields of child, adolescent, adult, and geriatric mental health.

Founded in 1941 as California’s first neuropsychiatric institute, UCSF Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital (LPPH) consists of an adult inpatient unit, an adult partial hospitalization program, an adult intensive outpatient program, and psychiatric consultation-liaison services. It is located on the seventh floor of the UCSF Medical Center at Mount …

Our clinics provide a broad range of outpatient consultation, evaluation, and treatment interventions for emotional, psychological, or cognitive problems of adults. Each person is provided with an initial assessment and an individualized treatment plan.

Since 1942, the UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences has provided compassionate and effective psychiatric care for generations of adults, adolescents and children.

Opened in 2022, the UCSF Nancy Friend Pritzker Psychiatry Building is a one-of-a-kind treatment center that aims to redefine mental health services and make a bold statement against stigma.

The following links will take you to websites providing background information on many of the topics we commonly discuss with our patients, as well as online resources for both patients and their loved ones. General Mental Health Information National Institute of Mental Health American Psychiatric Association Brain & Behavior Research Foundation National Alliance on …

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The UCSF Psychiatry Consultation-Liaison Service provides psychiatric and psychological consultation services to the emergency department at Parnassus and adult inpatients at Parnassus, Mission Bay, and Mount Zion. We provide assessment and treatment for changes in emotions, thinking, memory, behavior, and perception in patients on the medical, surgical, neurology, OB, and ICU wards. We also ...