Psychogenic or psychosomatically ill patients make up a large portion of patients in any general practice. How should a doctor approach these patients? How should they communicate with them? How can a trusting doctor-patient relationship be established? This book provides a practical guide to verbal intervention in cases of psychogenic or psychosomatic disorders. It exemplarily illustrates communication strategies for various patient groups and syndromes, such as psychosomatics, suicidality, borderline syndrome, etc. This has become a component for recognition in providing and billing services in interdisciplinary psychosomatic primary care. Case studies and conversation sequences explain the medical approach, while the theoretical background is intentionally kept brief for practical purposes.