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In another five years, psychiatry will have had approximately a one-hundred year history of trying to reintegrate physical medicine with psychological medicine. If one were to graph the course of this history, one would quickly see the oscillations that Freedman1 called the “to and fro” of trends in psychiatry toward medicalization, demedicalization and remedicalization. In almost a century of persevering efforts, we have come not very far in achieving the objective of teaching nonpsychiatrist physicians to synthesize psyche-medicine and soma-medicine. The first part of this chapter will examine some of the many efforts which have been made over time to overcome the barriers to biopsychosocial practice. The second part will offer some speculative reasons for their degree of success or failure.
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Lipsitt, D.R. (1997). Teaching Psychiatry to Primary Care Physicians. In: Leigh, H. (eds) Biopsychosocial Approaches in Primary Care. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5957-3_12
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