Problems of organization and financing psychosomatic centers.
The basic directions of promotion of psychiatry in clinical practice and leading tendencies of developing psychosomatic centers are analyzed. Mechanisms of financing such centers and the ways of their development are discussed. A great number of psychosomatic patients can be effectively treated in a somatic hospital. Clinical practice testifies that psychiatrists make contribution to more successful treatment of somatic pathology, and cooperation of psychiatrists with physicians of somatic profile increases possibilities of mental frustration correction of somatic patients. All this involves reduction of hospitalization periods and long preservation of compliance and high frequency of repeated visits of doctors in polyclinic conditions.