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The author discusses the meaning and present-day status of this branch of psychology and the issues which face clinical psychologists in a field where their interests clash with those of psychiatrists. He considers that in order to promote further advancement in the methods of diagnosis and treatment in clinical psychology, emphasis should be laid upon the importance of close collaboration between psychiatrists and clinical psychologists in a task which requires their mutual cooperation and goodwill.
Psychosomatic medicine is discussed as representing the latest scientific discipline which has developed in the medical world since World War II. It provides the basic approach in applying facts of psycho-pathology to a number of functional and organic illnesses.
In the therapy of emotional disorders 'brief psychotherapy' is discussed as a methodological advance which may provide the benefits of psychotherapy for the masses. To serve the wider interests of individual and community mental health, the importance of training in techniques of 'brief psychotherapy' has been stressed.
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