[Psychotherapeutic service in general somatic hospital]

The paper presents the experience of the activity of psychotherapeutic department in general somatic hospital during 3 years. For this period specialists of this department (psychotherapist, psychiatrist, medical psychologist and a nurses) were consulted 4528 patients. Some disorders of nonpsychotic level were found in 2915 cases. Different methods of psychotherapy resulted in either "recovery" or "significant improvement" in 1065 (39.5%) patients; in the "improvement"--in 1157 (39.7%) cases, in the "insignificant improvement"--in 604 (20.7%) patients; there wasn't observed any effect in 89 (3.1%) cases. Psychotherapeutic service in general somatic hospital is thought useful.