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All future psychiatrists should be neuropsychiatrists

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Michael Fitzgerald
Michael Fitzgerald*
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Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, email: prof.m.fitzgerald@gmail.com
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The Psychiatrist , Volume 37 , Issue 9 , September 2013 , pp. 309
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Conn & Cavanna Reference Conn and Cavanna1 discuss a meeting point for neurology and psychiatry. This is very important. My own view is that all future psychiatrists should be neuropsychiatrists. Psychological therapies should be provided by non-psychiatrists. The role of the neuropsychiatrist would be largely diagnostic and implementation of medical treatment (mainly psychopharmacology). This is the only way that makes sense of the medical degree in the first place.

New dual postgraduate training programmes in neurology and psychiatry should be instituted. The financial cost of a psychiatrist providing psychotherapy is prohibitive in the current climate.

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1 Conn, R, Cavanna, AE. A meeting point for neurology and psychiatry? Psychiatrist 2013; 37: 147–8.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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