“…The expansion, however, has been uneven [2,3] and the provision of CLP services has been slow to develop in several countries [6,7]. In Spain, where the discipline is increasingly called Psychosomatic Psychiatry (PP) [8] or Psychosomatic and Liaison Psychiatry (PLP), the first specific Units were developed in 1977 [9], and further developments were described during the European collaborative studies [2,3] and in a study pub-lished in Spain in the year 2000 [10]. The aim of this new study is to present the findings from the most detailed national survey of hospital-based Psychosomatic and Liaison Psychiatry Units (PLPUs) yet under-taken in Spain.…”