title: Medical psychotherapy: an evolving concept.
abstract: The term "medical psychotherapy" is gaining ascendancy in its use to describe the approach to therapeutic intervention used by psychiatrists who conceptualize their function as being at the more medical end of the spectrum of psychiatric practice styles. The following definition represents an attempt to crystallize a model that is in an active stage of evolution. I hope to stimulate continued debate and refinement of the concept.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D010686:Philosophy, Medical; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods; D014481:United States