Psychiatry, psychotherapy and neurology are closely related disciplines. It is not surprising that physicians, after their medical studies, do not practice only one of these specialties because of the similarity, but several, if not all of them. Accordingly, there are specialists in psychiatry and psychotherapy, specialists in psychiatry and neurology, and various other forms.

Specialists in psychiatry and psychotherapy have, as the name suggests, a license to practice medicine according to the Psychotherapists Act. Thus, they are allowed to work therapeutically, just like psychological psychotherapists. In most cases, however, psychiatrists support psychotherapy that has already begun or will begin in the near future with the help of medication. The aim is to stabilize the patient so that therapy becomes possible.

Specialists in neurology deal with the human nervous system. Since it can now be assumed that mental illnesses for the most part either have a neurological-physiological basis or have effects on the nervous system, the transitions between psychiatry and neurology are often fluid.