The Department of Psychiatry Amsterdam UMC and GGZ inGeest Mental Health Care  have been long-term and successful collaborators in their goals to better understand, prevent, and treat psychiatric disorders, particularly related to chronic and severe depressive and anxiety disorders. 

Clinical research is embedded within four  Academic Collaborative Centers at GGZ inGeest: anxiety disorders, depressive disorders, bipolar disorders, and old age psychiatry. In our  Academic Collaborative Centers clinicians and researchers closely collaborate in innovative research projects.  The aim of the Academic Collaborative Centers is to use clinical practice as a source of inspiration for new research questions on the one hand and to bring the advancing insights of the research world into clinical practice on the other. This has resulted in four Academic Collaborative Centers with the TOPGGz quality mark where the treatment and research of complex, often long-term and  therapy-resistant disorders is central. TOPGGz is a label for high quality care being provided to patients with complex psychiatric disorders and for combining this care with research activities.