PSYCH 142: Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine
Medlock Holmes enters The Hospital of Two Wings.
For generations, one wing has been labelled BODY and the other MIND. Patients are routinely carried from one to the other, as though every symptom must belong exclusively to one side.
Holmes immediately notices the flaw.
A bridge connects them.
Consultation-liaison psychiatry operates on this bridge: the part of psychiatry concerned with psychiatric problems arising within medical settings and with the complex, bidirectional relationships between physical illness and mental health. The older term psychosomatic medicine literally reflects the…
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