[Change in diagnostic and therapeutic viewpoints: integrated perspectives].

Child and juvenile psychiatry is, as a medical discipline, made up of many fields. Explanatory models and attempts at understanding based on the natural and biological sciences and on the humane sciences call for a high degree of integrative willingness and ability. The same is particularly true within the field for the area of therapy. Following references to the development of the discipline and of the possible misunderstandings involved in an interpretation of the term "integration", the author makes reference to the dialogue-like structure of integration. The variety within and over-all structure of the field cannot be regarded as a unit by changing the level of perception, but they can be linked in an integrated whole.