Psychopharmacotherapy, Psychotherapy and their Combination

Overview

Psychopharmacotherapy, psychotherapy and their combination are at present the main waysof treatment of the great majority of mental and behavioural disorders. The author analyzesthese individual approaches, reflects on their possible advantages and disadvantages and triesto analyze the reasons why in common local psychiatric practice psychopharmacotherapy alonepredominates. Special attention is then devoted to the problem of combined therapy, theintegrated form of which is illustrated by the author on a case-history from his own clinicalpractice. In this context he analyzes in the conclusion the problem of postgraduate training inpsychiatry focused on psychotherapeutic training and present some suggestion of new approaches.

Key words:
psychopharmacotherapy - psychotherapy - combined treatment - integrated treatment- parallel treatment - obsessive compulsive disorder - depression - biopsychosocial model.O.