[Social psychiatry in the field of contrasting context between psychiatry and Social Medicine].
OBJECTIVE
There has been a discussion going on that Social Psychiatry has entered a state of crisis in terms of its socio-scientific roots. Little is known, however, about its relationship to Social Medicine. The question is whether Social Psychiatry, having grown apart from Sociology, has also lost its scientific relation to Social Medicine.


METHODS
A systematic literature analysis of all works published in "Psychiatrische Praxis" - PP and "Das Gesundheitswesen"--GHW in the years 2004/2005 was done. All works concerning Social Psychiatry were analysed. The same procedure was applied to all abstracts, posters and presentations for the annual meetings of the German Society of Social Medicine and Prevention (DGSMP).


RESULTS
10 % off all articles published in GHW and 97 % in PP address issues of Social Psychiatry. Apart from similarities in terms of their theoretical, practical and institutional background and the research methods applied, there are a number of differences.


CONCLUSIONS
Social Psychiatry has not lost its scientific relation to Social Medicine, however, the scientific cooperation between the two needs to be intensified.
Dietrich
Sandra
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Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie der Universität Leipzig. sandra.dietrich@medizin.uni-leipzig.de
Born
Anja
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Holzinger
Anita
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D003158:Community Psychiatry / Q000639:trends*; D003226:Congresses as Topic; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000639:trends*; D011643:Publishing / Q000639:trends; D012106:Research / Q000639:trends; D012936:Social Medicine / Q000639:trends*; D012942:Social Sciences / Q000639:trends