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General Psychiatry
Our physicians offer comprehensive diagnosis and treatment for patients with cancer, severe burns, head and spinal cord injuries, end-stage liver disease and other general medical conditions.
Since 1905, The University of Kansas Health System in Kansas City, Kansas, has provided leading-edge general psychiatry services for the state of Kansas and beyond.
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We offer a variety of appointment types. Learn more or call 913-588-1227 to schedule now.
Diagnosis and treatment
We offer comprehensive diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric and psychological disorders including:
- Addiction disorders
- Alcoholism
- Opioid-use disorder
- Anxiety disorders
- Generalized anxiety disorder
- Panic disorder
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Phobias
- Attention deficit disorder
- Depression
- Evidence-based care and the region’s most comprehensive inpatient and outpatient treatments including:
- Board-certified psychiatric evaluations and management of complex patients
- Transcranial magnetic stimulation, a noninvasive procedure used to treat depression. It uses magnetic fields to stimulate nerve cells in the brain.
- Vagus nerve stimulation for the treatment of epilepsy and depression.
- Esketamine spray to treat depression that has not responded to other treatment.
- Electroconvulsive therapy
- Comprehensive care for patients struggling with depression
- Access to clinical trials
- Eating disorders
- Anorexia
- Binge-eating disorder
- Bulimia
- Mood disorders
- Bipolar disorder
- Personality disorders
- Thought disorders
- Delusional disorder
- Psychotic bipolar disorder
- Schizophrenia
- Trauma adjustment disorders
- Posttraumatic stress disorder