[Consultation and liaison psychiatry--a contribution to the holistic thinking in medicine].

After some introductory remarks about consultation and liaison psychiatry, the psychiatric consultation and liaison service in the general university hospital of Bern is presented. It has a statistically expressable exterior activity and an interior activity. It gives its contribution to holistic medical thinking in the fields of patient care, teaching, research, expertising and public relations. Problems of integration of consultation and liaison psychiatry and their possible overcoming are discussed on the base of two other studies of this author. The importance of creating psychiatric services in general hospitals is emphasized.