Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry in Germany

Die neue Psychosomatische Medizin, ehemals Konsiliarpsychiatrie, in den USA

“…Die psychosomatischen Abteilungen begannen mit der Behandlung von Patienten mit neurotischen Erkrankungen, somatoformen Störungen und Persönlich-keitsstörungen [6]. In Nordamerika wurde dies gespiegelt durch Psychoanalytiker, die solche Patienten behandelten, aber nur selten in die formellen medizinischen Fakultäten an Hochschulen integriert waren.…”

Psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine in Germany: lessons to be learned?*

“…for example [57,58]. Some representatives of German psychotherapeutic medicine strongly refer to that historical tradition as crucial for the definition of their subspecialty [48,59]. It is beyond the scope of this article, to discuss this further.…”

“…* * This article draws in part from references [1, 4, 48, 68, 75, 76]– due to space restriction, readers are referred to the original articles for complete reference lists. …”

History, aims and present structure of psychosomatic medicine in Germany

“…This society can also give support for the development of psychosomatic basic care in the different medical specialties, if these like to cooperate. This is in contrast to psychiatric societies in the medical field, which focus much more on psychopharmacological treatments for severe psychiatric diseases or short psychotherapeutic interventions, in special cases [ 11 ]. Professional activity: a specialist society like DGPM is focused on physicians as regular members.…”