Table 1. Composition of the consensus conference.
| Voting members of the consensus conference* | ||
| German Society for Bipolar Disorder (DGBS) | Prof. Michael Bauer | |
| German Association for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (DGPPN) | Prof. Peter Falkai, | |
| Prof. Oliver Gruber | ||
| Professional Association of German Psychiatrists (BVDP) | Dr. Lutz Bode | |
| Professional League of German Neurologic Medicine (BVDN) | Dr. Roland Urban | |
| German Psychological Society (DGPs) | Prof. Martin Hautzinger, | |
| Prof. Thomas D. Meyer | ||
| German Federal Conference of Psychiatric Hospital Directors (BDK) | Prof. Lothar Adler, | |
| Dr. Harald Scherk | ||
| German College of General Practitioners and Family Physicians (DEGAM) | Dipl.-Soz. Martin Beyer | |
| Working Group of Directors of Psychiatric Departments at General Hospitals in Germany (ACKPA) | Dr. Günter Niklewski | |
| Drug Commission of the German Medical Association (AkdÄ) | Dr. Tom Bschor | |
| DGBS Self-Help Network | Dietmar Geissler | |
| Federal Organisation of (ex-)Users and Survivors of Psychiatry in Germany (BPE) | Reinhard Gielen | |
| DGBS Families Initiative | Horst Giesler | |
| Federal Association of Relatives of the Mentally Ill (BApK) | Karl Heinz Möhrmann | |
| Representative of Diagnosis Working Group | Prof. Peter Bräunig | |
| Representative of Pharmacotherapy Working Group | Dr. Johanna Sasse | |
| Representative of Psychotherapy Working Group | Prof. Thomas D. Meyer | |
| Representatives of Nonmedicinal Somatic Procedures Working Group | Dr. Frank Padberg, | |
| Dr. Thomas Baghai | ||
| Representatives of the Working Group Health Care System | Prof. Peter Brieger, | |
| Prof. Andrea Pfennig | ||
*Each organisation and working group had one vote (total: 18 votes)