Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry vs Psychosomatic Medicine: What's in a name?

Robert J Boland; James Rundell; Steven Epstein; David Gitlin

doi:10.1016/j.psym.2017.11.006

Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry vs Psychosomatic Medicine: What's in a name?

Psychosomatics. 2018 May-Jun;59(3):207-210. doi: 10.1016/j.psym.2017.11.006. Epub 2017 Nov 22.

Authors

Robert J Boland¹, James Rundell², Steven Epstein³, David Gitlin⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Department of Embedded Behavioral Health, DBH, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Waldmohr, Germany.
³ Department of Psychiatry, Georgetown University School of Medicine and MedStar Health, Washington, DC.
⁴ Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

PMID: 29254807
DOI: 10.1016/j.psym.2017.11.006

Abstract

Background: In November of 2017, The Academy of the Psychosomatic Medicine voted to change its name to the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry. It followed a similar change in which the American Board of Medical Specialties voted to change the name of the field to Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.

Objective: The authors, all instrumental in bringing about this change, discuss the history and rationale for this name change.

Keywords: Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry; Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine; Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry; Liaison psychiatry, Medical Psychiatry; Psychosomatic Medicine.

Publication types

Historical Article
Review

MeSH terms

History, 20th Century
History, 21st Century
Humans
Psychiatry / history
Psychiatry / organization & administration
Psychosomatic Medicine / history*
Psychosomatic Medicine / organization & administration
Referral and Consultation*
Societies, Medical
Terminology as Topic*
United States