title: Approach to organic psychiatry or the dialogue between brain and mind.
abstract: This article describes the evolution of concepts of the relationship between brain and mind. Instead of the earlier dualistic approach to mental and brain disorders, we are nowadays confronted with a new approach where the boundaries between these two "worlds" become more and more blurred.
authors.affiliation: Psychiatric Unit, Loewenstein Hospital, Raanana, Israel.
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Stern
mesh_terms: D001689:Biological Psychiatry; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D003071:Cognition; D003243:Consciousness; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008606:Mental Processes; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed