[Specific position of physical therapy in psychiatry].

It is pointed out that in modern psychiatry physical therapy has to be integrated as therapeutic tool beside psychopharmacology, verbal psychotherapy and occupational therapy. The expression physical therapy is used here in a large sense. As an example endogenous depression is chosen to show which conditions are necessary when using physical therapy in a rational way. Concerning the other groups of psychiatric disorders it was referred in the book "Physikalische Therapie in der Psychiatrie" ("physical therapy in psychiatry").