Mental Health Protection Institute was established in Niš in 1975. It was transformed into the Mental Health Protection and Neuropsychiatry Clinic in 1990, when it became part of the Clinical Center Niš. Due to its activity, technical equipment and facilities, this clinic has not only significantly contributed to the improvement of mental health but it has also upgraded scientific and research activity in the field of neuropsychiatry.Mental Health Protection Clinic is a highly specialized health institution which deals with protection and promotion of mental health in adults and adolescents. This clinic is a teaching center of the Faculty of Medicine in Niš. In the last years, the following diagnostic and therapeutic procedures have been conducted: 

• EMDR therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder
• analytical short-term group psychotherapy
• Gestalt therapy
• computerized quantification and mapping of electrocortical EEG activity
• socio-therapeutic work with families of psychotic patients
• individual psychoanalytic psychotherapy
• group psychoanalytic psychotherapy
• individual short-term dynamic psychotherapy
• sociotherapeutic club of psychotic patients
• treatment of opiate addiction

Department of Pediatric and Adolescent PsychiatryDaily Hospital Department

• Section of Diagnostic Treatment and Patient Admission
• Section of Addiction Disorders
• Section of Geriatric Psychiatry
• Cabinet for Electrodiagnosis in Psychiatry
• Cabinet for Psychotherapy

• Director

Dr med. sci. Vladimir Đorđević 

• Assistant Director

Doc. dr Olivera Žikić 

• Chiefs of Departments

Mr dr Olga Milojković

Mr dr Ljiljana Trajanović 

• Heads of Sections

Prim. Dr Olivera Skakić

Dr sci. med. Ljiljana Samardžić 

• Heads of Sections - Cabinets

Dr Gordana Jović

Dr Verica Arsenijević

Dr Dojranka Stanković-Janković

Dr Zagorka Stevanović 

• Head Nurse

Violeta Potić