[Problems of psychosomatics and somatopsychiatrics in internal medicine]

The past 2 decades in our country has been marked by the population's poorer health status, the obvious tendency for the incidence of many somatic and mental diseases to increase. The problem of somatogenic mental diseases and disorders diagnosed in the presence of a somatic disease merits particular attention. The paper considers the background of psychosomatics and somatopsychiatrics, presents the authors' own findings of the mental status in patients with chronic lung diseases. Various somatic disease-detected psychopathological syndrome relationships most common in the treatment of visceral diseases are systematized. Emphasis is laid to the fact that the differentiation of proper mental and somatic diseases, the elaboration of the optimal treatment policy is possible only if therapeutists work in close cooperation with psychiatrists. Principles in the complex therapy of psychopathological disorders in patients with somatic diseases are given.