Prof. Dr. med. Frank-Gerald B. Pajonk
As a long-standing, experienced medical doctor and psychotherapist with extensive and broad clinical qualifications as well as a proven scientific reputation and management experience in university, care and private hospitals and my own practice, I am very familiar with all mental illnesses.
I am a specialist and senior consultant in psychiatry and psychotherapy with additional qualifications in geriatrics, emergency medicine and basic addiction medicine and hold the following certificates
- Geriatric psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatics (DGPPN)
- Psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatics in the consultation and liaison service (DGPPN)
- Sports psychiatry and psychotherapy (DGSPP).
I am also a Catholic deacon and live in the Benedictine Abbey of Schäftlarn.
Qualifications and memberships
My scientific and clinical work has focused on the following topics and issues:
- Emergency psychiatry and crisis intervention
- Therapy for depression and anxiety disorders
- Development and treatment of burnout
- Treatment of trauma-related disorders
- Spirituality, religiosity and the psyche
- Effects of sports and exercise therapy on mental illnesses
- Diagnosis and treatment of competitive athletes with mental illnesses
- Diagnosis and treatment of schizophrenic disorders
- Development and treatment of Alzheimer’s-type dementia
Over the last few decades, I have published numerous scientific articles and books and have spoken at congresses and specialist conferences.
Memberships:
- German Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Neurology (DGPPN)
- International Society for Health and Spirituality (IGGS)
- German Society for Geriatric Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (DGGPP)
- Association of North German Emergency Physicians (AGNN)
- American Association for Emergency Psychiatry (AAEP)
- German Society for Sports Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (DGSPP)
Curriculum vitae
Prof. Dr. med. Frank-Gerald B. Pajonk
Curriculum vitae
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since 2025 |
Re-opening of private office |
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since 2023 |
Guest Professor, Institute of Anthropology, Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome |
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since 2015 |
Professor of Psychiatry at the Technical University of Munich |
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2022-2024 |
Medical Director of the Zentrum Isartal for Mental Health at Schäftlarn Monastery |
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2012-2021 |
Founder and director of the Praxis Isartal for Mental Health, Schäftlarn Monastery |
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2007-2011 |
Chief physician and senior consultant at Dr. med. Kurt Fontheim‘s Hospital for Mental Health, Liebenburg |
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2006 |
Appointment as Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Saarland University Hospital |
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2002-2006 |
Senior Consultant and Deputy Director, Dept. of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, The Saarland University Hospital |
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2002 |
Habilitation, specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy |
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2001-2002 |
Janssen-Cilag GmbH, Neuss |
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1999 |
Specialist in psychiatry |
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1995-2000 |
Dept. of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy and Dept. of Neurology, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf |
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1994-1995 |
Dept. of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich |
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1994 |
Doctorate |
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1993-1994 |
Dept. of Surgery, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich |
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1986-1993 |
Study of Human Medicine at the Universities of Essen and Munich |