At our clinic, patients can consult our highly experienced specialist psychiatrist regarding a wide range of psychiatric conditions. She works in both Hungarian and German.

Dr Farkas graduated in 1977 in Budapest at Semmelweis University and began her career at the Hungarian National Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology (OPNI). She gained experience on general psychiatric, alcohol treatment, and psychotic wards and obtained her board certification in psychiatry in 1983.

In 1984, she joined the crisis intervention ward of Péterfy Sándor Street Hospital, where, from 1989 to 2012, she served as deputy head of department, and where she continues to work to this day as a retired volunteer colleague. The ward’s psychotherapeutic orientation, with its focus on individual and group therapy, and family and couples therapy proved formative for her; she also took part in developing the practice of crisis intervention. She has acquired significant experience in working with patients with addictions too. Through her consultative work on other wards, she also came to recognise how often psychological disorders play a decisive role in physical complaints.

In addition to Hungarian, German is also her working language.

Main areas of expertise

• mood disorders (unipolar and bipolar depression, mixed affective states)
• anxiety disorders (panic disorder, phobias, generalised anxiety, obsessive–compulsive disorder)
• sleep disorders
• psychosomatic conditions
• addictive disorders
  
  

‘My mentors were leaders in their field. Professor Miklós Kun’s class at OPNI made the deepest impression on me, where the principles of the therapeutic community and psychotherapy formed a natural environment alongside the most advanced biological treatments including the early introduction of what later became biological psychiatry.’