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The six authors present five pillars promoting Psychosomatic Medicine (PM) in Germany, namely, (1) Family Medicine, (2) Regional Health Care, (3) Transregional Rehabilitation Medicine, (4) Medical Socialization, (5) PM at Medical Schools. The authors proceed from the consensus that health care adheres to both the bio-psycho-social concept and the concept of integrated care being based on relationship. This is officially implemented in the advanced education policy of psychosomatic primary care (PPC) which is mandatory for family physicians/GP’s and for gynecologists/obstetricians and increasingly accepted in medical practice altogether. PPC comprises 80 hours of advanced education through: 30 hours group work (Balint/interactional), 30 hours verbal intervention, 20 hours theory of PM. Emphasis is laid on experience of the self. The zeitgeist in present Germany allows for the experience of the self. Both the physician and the patient are seen as individuals who are asked what they expect of each other in the NOW (here). The NOW (here) is embedded in past, present, future. Seen from outside, the expectations are filtered differently, i.e., evaluated either according to ICD or to ICF. ICD is the official system of classifying disorders and diseases in outpatients as well as in (acute) hospital patient care. ICF, however, is the official system of rehabilitation medicine to classify not disorders or diseases but functions. The zeitgeist allows taking a closer look at the filters mentioned. The symptom having a truth-bearing function may be seen not as a (semi-)permeable membrane but as a living filter, a kind of organic skin. ICD and/or ICF may be seen as the living filters of the physicians and their coworkers.

Representatives of the five pillars are responsible for performing sufficiently qualitative and cost-effective health care in adherence with the health care provision mandate of the German State upon the German Medical Profession. Family physicians fulfill the task of gate keeper in an increasingly attendant and counseling function; rehabilitative physicians assume a pacemaker function by practicing modern, specialized forms of group work and by documenting their cost-effectiveness (!). Regional medicine with all-day clinics including day clinics and liaison services in the Anglo-Saxon sense connects family medicine to rehabilitation medicine. From the psychosomatic aspect, the various specialist societies, the German College of PM (DKPM) and the German Society for PM (DGPM) have the task in consultation with the agencies of the German Medical Counsel (Ärztetag) of specifying the main topics of physicians’ socialization in a democratic society and formulating the process of their adaptation. An example of this kind of process at the undergraduate level are the anamnesis groups (peer groups on history taking; peegrohits) that were adopted into the catalogue of national educational objectives. The PM institutions in the 37 medical schools in Germany assume a critical function, in keeping with the zeitgeist, by more frequently pursuing questions about health care as a joint research effort and thus enabling themselves to further observe the continuous academic/post-academic socialization, also under the aspect of transcultural psychosomatics (i.e., in further developing anamnesis groups to Moving Seminars/MOSE). – The future will show how the thread of biography, transdisciplinary exchange, and trauma beyond biography lead to using both classification systems and come to an agreement on how to construe the next step.

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