Am J Psychiatry 1977; 134:432-434
Copyright © 1977 by American Psychiatric Association
The psychiatrist: in the mainstream or on the banks of medicine?
TP Hackett
The author discusses psychiatry's historical estrangement from general
medicine, beginning with its isolation in mental hospitals, aggravated by a
deterioration in medical school teaching of clinical psychiatry and by
limited psychiatric training programs, and further alienated by much of
psychosomatic theory and practice. He sees hope for reconciliation,
however, in the recent progress of psychopharmacology and liaison
psychiatry within the general hospital.
