Anxiety and medicine: which place for psychiatrists?

The relationship between medicine and psychiatry is complex and sometimes a little difficult. Anxiety is frequently met in somatic medicine units and particullarly in General Hospital where psychiatrists are often required for crisis situations. So, anxiety disorder becomes a link between physicians and psychiatrists looking after same inpatients. Epidemiological high comorbidity too is demonstrated between anxiety and somatic disorders, More and more frequently, psychiatrists are engaged for care of post traumatic stress disorders. In fact, in modern medicine, the psychiatrist is collecting medical, psychosocial and humanist points of view. His missions of clinician, teacher, and researcher seem really important for the future evolution of medicine.