綜合醫(yī)院精神病學(xué)探索精神病學(xué)、醫(yī)學(xué)和初級保健之間的聯(lián)系和接口。該雜志強調(diào)對疾病和健康的生物心理社會方法，并為臨床、學(xué)術(shù)和研究領(lǐng)域的專業(yè)人士提供了一個交流的論壇，他們對精神病學(xué)在“主流醫(yī)學(xué)”中的基本功能感興趣。在綜合醫(yī)院中迅速發(fā)展起來的那些聯(lián)絡(luò)咨詢和精神病學(xué)服務(wù)的基礎(chǔ)上，該雜志擴展了這一基礎(chǔ)，鼓勵在住院病人、門診和社區(qū)環(huán)境中對疾病的理解和治療作出新的貢獻。對生活壓力、身體體驗、心理社會因素、人際和心理內(nèi)反應(yīng)、家庭結(jié)構(gòu)、生態(tài)變化和制度力量的多系統(tǒng)關(guān)系的研究與該雜志的目標(biāo)特別相關(guān)。綜合醫(yī)院精神病學(xué)發(fā)表關(guān)于生物、心理、社會醫(yī)學(xué)方法的原創(chuàng)文章;liaison-consultation精神病學(xué);精神病服務(wù)與一般醫(yī)療系統(tǒng)的關(guān)系;醫(yī)學(xué)教育的新方向強調(diào)精神病學(xué)在初級保健、家庭實踐和繼續(xù)教育中的作用。它還具有簡短的溝通，新聞和筆記，書評，醫(yī)學(xué)精神病學(xué)查房，感興趣的醫(yī)生和其他專業(yè)人士和學(xué)生在這個領(lǐng)域。

General Hospital Psychiatry explores the linkages and interfaces among psychiatry, medicine and primary care. The Journal emphasizes a biopsychosocial approach to illness and health, and provides a forum for communication among professionals with clinical, academic, and research interests in psychiatry's essential function in "the mainstream of medicine." Building upon those liaison consultation and psychiatric services which have burgeoned in the general hospital setting, the Journal expands beyond this base to encourage new contributions to the understanding and treatment of illness - in inpatient, ambulatory, and community settings. Studies of multisystem relationships of life stresses, physical experience, psychosocial factors, interpersonal and intrapsychic reactions, family structure, ecological change, and institutional forces are especially relevant to the Journal's objectives. General Hospital Psychiatry publishes original articles on biopsychosocial approaches to medicine; liaison-consultation psychiatry; the relationship of psychiatric services to general medical systems; and new directions in medical education which stress psychiatry's role in primary care, family practice, and continuing education. It also features Brief Communications, News and Notes, Book Reviews, and Medical Psychiatric Rounds, of interest to physicians and other professionals and students in this field.