[Theses on psychotherapeutic qualification of psychiatrists]

The creation in Germany of the professional designation of a joint Specialist for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy raises a number of questions and problems. The risks and chances of the new regulation are discussed by means of six theses. The author favours maximum closeness to practice when performing psychotherapeutic training of psychiatrists so that these may be enabled to execute all the care activities that come up in psychiatry day by day, in a psychodynamically oriented manner. In my opinion, however, cooperation between psychiatry and psychoanalysis can be successful if a coexistence develops that is upheld and animated by the tensions and atmosphere of suspense existing between the two disciplines.