The course focuses on the most frequent psychic disorders, basics of psychological assessment, and clinical site visits. The field of clinical psychology and its history is introduced in the first part of the course. The following part deals with issues of both general psychopathology (symptoms and syndromes) as well as with special psychopathology (anxiety, mood and personality disorders and schizophrenia). The biological and psychological etiology of the disorders is explained; pharmacological and therapeutic possibilities in treating these disorders are dealt with as well.