Facing the difficulties involved in combined therapy.

RESUMEN

[ABSTRACT] Combined psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy is a very common treatment strategy as shown by the
data found by the authors in the surveys made in Spain and Switzerland, two countries with quite
different patterns of treatments utilization. The authors comment on the different possible
combinations of pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy. Pharmacotherapy can be combined with
individual or group psychotherapy, using a treatment team of two or three clinicians, either
psychiatrists, non-psychiatric physicians, or non-physician psychotherapists Efforts to include the
teaching of this procedure in resident programmes have yet to see parallel development.La terapia combinada de psicoterapia con farmacoterapia es un tratamiento muy frecuente como se evidencia en los resultados de las encuestas realizadas por los autores en España y en Suiza, dos países con formas de utilización de los servicios muy diferentes. Los autores describen las diferentes variedades de tratamientos combinados. Se deben realizar esfuerzos para entrenar a los residentes en estas variedades de tratamiento.