Psychiatry and Medical Practice in a General Hospital

VARIOUS interesting facets of the complex problem pertaining to the integration of psychiatry and medicine have been presented of late by a great number of psychiatrists and internists.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 The purpose of this paper is not to discuss "psychosomatic medicine" or psychiatry as a medical specialty concerned mainly with neuroses and psychoses, but rather to delineate certain important aspects of the role of psychologic thought in medical practice. When referring to psychologic thought, I have in mind psychoanalytically oriented psychology, or what is frequently called dynamic or depth psychology. This psychologic system maintains that there is more to a person's emotional . . .