Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics· 2016Q1
Psychosomatic Medicine in Germany: More Timely than Ever
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Short summary
Psychosomatic medicine in Germany developed independently from psychiatry due to psychiatry's resistance to integrating psychotherapy, leading to its institutionalization within internal medicine departments.
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Key points
- Psychosomatic medicine in Germany is not a subspecialty of psychiatry.
- Psychiatry's resistance to integrating psychotherapy drove the independent development of psychosomatic medicine.
- Psychosomatic medicine departments are often integrated into internal medicine, not psychiatry.
- This independent development provided an institutional and academic foundation for psychotherapy in medicine.
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Abstract
In Germany, psychosomatic medicine is not a subspecialty of psychiatry, although it has clear connections in terms of shared models, methods, and overlapping care for patients. At some places, most prominently in Heidelberg and Tbingen, departments of psychosomatic medicine are part of overarching departments for internal medicine. The institutional independence of psychosomatic medicine in Germany is largely due to German psychiatry resisting the integration of psychotherapy as a core method. Hence, psychosomatic medicine developed independently as an institutional and academic basis for psychotherapy in medicine and later for integrated care models.
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