On looking inward and being scientific - a tribute to G.L. Engel, MD, G.A. Fava; biopsychosocial challenges of the new millennium, C.D. Ryff and B.H. Singer; psychosomatic medicine - why fix it if it ain't broken? T. Sivik; consultation liaison psychiatry and psychosomatics - strange bedfellows, T.N. Wise; psychosomatic medicine - emerging trends and perspectives, G.A. Fava and N. Sonino; assessing somatization in functional gastrointestinal disorders -integration of different criteria, P. Porcelli, M. De Carne and G.A. Fava; cognitive-behavioural therapy for somatization and symptom syndromes - a critical review of controlled clinical trials, K. Kroenke and R. Swindle; a clinical index for rating severity in Cushing's Syndrome, N. Sonino, M. Boscaro et al; teaching and training in the psychiatric-psychosomatic consultation-liaison setting, M. Rigatelli, S. Ferrari et al.
