["Integrated psychotherapy": a new clinical challenge].

Integrated psychotherapy according to Barolin wants to be embedded in the general health system and regards the whole "bio-psychosocial entity of man" using psychical means, which can take psychotropic as well as somatotropic effect. It should come out of an isolated ivory tower and seek coordination with each and everyone dealing with the "human entity": medical (like medication, physiotherapy, etc.), nursing, social work, administration, etc. Psychotherapeutic "schools" should serve as a solid base of learning. Practical use however should go beyond schools: patient-centered instead of school-centered. Integrated psychotherapy should reach all persons who need it, within their somatogenic and psychogenic problems, especially the physical ill, up to accompaniment of the dying, especially in rehabilitation, including social environment, old-age groups. For this it needs social integration accepting economic responsibility (in the sense of "social ethics") plus evaluation. Hence, theory and practice of integrated psychotherapy find themselves linked to a higher human-ethical postulate, with a marked communicative component.