Abstract
Recent exploding development of the psychotropic drugs makes the concrete concept of “pharmacotherapy”, and contributes to the psychiatric medicine, although the effect of those psychotropic drugs is that for the symptoms, and it is neither for the basic personality disturbance due to the endogenous cause, nor for inner conflict due to the psychological disease, thus, the effect is not considered to be the creative one. This will be the limit of the present status of the pharmacotherapy of psychiatric patients.
Reviewing the pharmacotherapy in the psychiatric department of our hospital, we have to treat many patients within a limited short period, therefore, the treatment has to be depended on drugs, and thus the pharmacotherapy is the first choice as the matter of fact. In addition, time for somatic and psychological treatment are not sufficient, and they are not favorably influenced on the effect of drugs.
The presently practisizing pharmacotherapy and psychological treatments should be metholologically discussed.
It is not only the problem at our hospital, but also an problem of the psychiatry in our country.
