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Review of Consultation Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine

I. General Principles

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Psychosomatic Medicine and Liaison Psychiatry

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One of the most significant developments in American psychiatry since World War II has been the growth of general-hospital psychiatric units. Several excellent books39,46,80 have been devoted to this subject, but they do not attempt to evaluate specifically the importance of this development for psychosomatic medicine. Most relevant to the latter is consultation or liaison work carried out by psychiatrists in the non- psychiatric departments of a general hospital. This consultative activity is one of the chief functions, as well as an outgrowth, of the psychiatric units. Kaufman, one of the pioneers in this field, calls liaison psychiatry “the most significant division for the role of psychiatrists in a general hospital.”38 There is a growing number of publications dealing with different facets of consultation psychiatry11,24,27,31,32,40,42,48,59.60,71 and several general reviews are among them.5,41,53,64,76 Each of these contributions, however, tends to stress one or more aspects of this field to the relative exclusion of others, and thus a comprehensive outline of this area of psychiatric activity is worth attempting. It may serve as a guide to the relevant literature for the increasing numbers of young psychiatrists wishing to spend some part of their training on a consultation service and perhaps choose it as their main area of psychiatric work. Another purpose of this paper is to point out the relevance and implications of consultation psychiatry for the wider field of psychosomatic medicine, and thereby supplement a review, by Wittkower and the author,78 of recent trends in psychosomatic research.

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Lipowski, Z.J. (1985). Review of Consultation Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine. In: Psychosomatic Medicine and Liaison Psychiatry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2509-3_18

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