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The domain of psychiatry is coextensive with the domain of medicine. Ultimately this must mean that a high degree of training in psychiatry will be as essential to the future physician as was a training in anatomy to our medical ancestors. In the meantime, while psychiatry struggles to perfect its methods,
a type of partnership is necessary between psychiatry and all the rest of medicine which is unique. Psychiatry cannot play the rôle of a specialty among other specialties, because it must aim constantly to coördinate its work closely with all of the others. To achieve such a partnership an organization must be built up consisting of a series of psychiatric units, each of which is attached to one of the services in the hospital. The details of such an organization are described in this paper.