MMW, Münchener medizinische Wochenschrift
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Neurology and psychiatry are combined in the easily misunderstandable term "Neuropsychiatry" as equal ranking sister disciplines. Neurology with its rectilinear development and the gain in important auxiliary methods enjoys general high respect. It is quite different with psychiatry. ⋯ Such uncertainty is alive even in the ranks of psychiatrists, to the detriment of their responsibility. Psychiatry must serve the care of the individual patient, renouncing all possible temptations. Some success can be expected from the "out-patient services" but this demands professional knowledge and critical ability besides activity.