Liaison psychiatry To the editor: Liaison psychiatry is the consulting work a psychiatrist does
in a general hospital. Articles have been written about liaison psychiatry and about …

One large and respected department of psychiatry lists 55 full-time faculty members in its
residency brochure. Seven-teen of them are psychiatrists and 38 are psychologists and …

SIR: Drs. Peterson and associates point out several important considerations involved in the
practice of liaison psychiatry. We are pleased to address the three concerns they note …

In February 1984 at the Quarterly Meeting of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Professor A.
Guz from the Department of Medicine, Charing Cross Hospital, presented a paper with the …

For many years psychiatry was separate from the main stream of medicine. 4 Psychiatric
patients' behavior resulted in their being excluded from the community. Thus the doctor who …

The author, a consultation/liaison psychiatrist, reviews five important questions about liaison
work which are pressing, but remain unanswered. With some trepidation, he seeks to temper …

Attention to the emotional factors associated with physical illness has always been an
essential part of good medical practice but it is only relatively recently that organized …

Psychosomatic Medicine and Liaison Psychiatry: Selected papers. By ZJ Lipowski. New
York: Plenum. 1985. Pp. 453. $39.50. It is a bold step to publish one's collected papers …

For those unfamiliar with the term," liaison psychiatry" refers to the outreach connections that
psychiatry establishes with other medical specialties. It is generally carried out by …

SIR: Drs. Peterson and associates point out several important considerations involved in the
practice of liaison psychiatry. We are pleased to address the three concerns they note …