Discussion: liaison psychiatry and the quest for new knowledge

Liaison psychiatry has become a subspecialty of psychiatry. This Symposium illustrates a new trend for liaison psychiatrists to become involved in collaborative research at the interface of medicine and psychiatry. The contributors have shown how such research can be organized with help of consultation-liaison clinical work. Liaison psychiatry's future will depend on the provision of competent clinical service and high quality research of the type reported here.