[Model of a course of psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy]

In 1970 new directions for the training of medical students in Germany have been issued. They include for the first time several compulsory lectures and courses on psychological-medicine, which covers: psychosomatic medicine, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis and medical psychology. Our paper puts to dicussion a new teaching model for psychological medicine that proved to be useful and effective many terms. The standards for our "practical course in psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy" have been derived from the post-graduate training courses for psychoanalysis as offered in Germany for the last 25 years by the two psychoanalytical societies of the DGPPT (German Society for Psychotherapy, Psychosomatic Medicine and Deep Psychology).