[Function of the psychiatrist in a hematology ward. Notes on consultation-liaison psychiatry]

Collaboration between Haematology and Mental Hygiene Departments of the University of Rome aims at clinical assistance, scientific research and staff training. It takes place through meetings of psychiatric consultants with haematologic patients and, above all, with doctors and paramedical staff. The psychiatrist's role takes place inside the framework of modern CLP (consultation-liaison psychiatry), whose psychosomatic approach to illness it shares, taking into consideration the complex network of interactions and feedbacks in which the relationships between doctor, patient and illness develop.