An outpatient clinic therapeutically situated between hospital and office of the general practitioner is to a particular extent suitable for research, teaching, diagnosis and treatment of psychosomatic diseases. The increasing importance of psychosomatic medicine, which is firmly rooted as a compulsory subject in the licensing regulations and as an insurance benefit as part of causal psychoanalytical psychotherapy, has also become better known to wide circles of the population. Our investigations emphasize the activities and problems of the psychosomatic advisory department of the Medical University Hospital in Munich.