title: [The relationship of psychotherapy to medicine and psychiatry].
abstract: After having gone into detail on the medical aspect of psychotherapy which treats patients, the author describes the complex relation between the fields of medicine and psychiatry, the latter not yet being fully integrated into the former. This is demonstrated, for example, by the difficulty with which a bio-psycho-social model is accepted in the medical field. This inadequacy of psychiatry in the eyes of the medical world has historical as well as theoretical origins whose importance should not be minimized. In an attempt to understand the patient as a whole, training and research psychotherapy centres play a major role. This is where the psychodynamics of the patient as well as that of the physician can be examined with the greatest lucidity and intensity. From this it can be deduced that it is on the basis of the work of such psychotherapeutic training centres that medical psychology, in the large sense of the term, can shed light into the medical world at the price, it is true, of constant efforts at improving the techniques and examining the theories involved.
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*
vernacular_title: A propos des relations de la psychothérapie avec la médecine et la psychiatrie.