For centuries, the etiological considerations in medicine have been dominated by the dualism of the psychological and the physical. Engel's forty-year-old concept of biopsychosocial cause laid the foundations for a holistic approach. Yet, in the practice and educational programs of medical professionals, the biological approach actually prevails. Family physicians have the greatest opportunity to recognize and appreciate the psychosocial dimensions of the disease compared to secondary physicians more prone to a particular, biological approach. They are, therefore, key factors in the implementation of a biopsychosocial approach that takes into account all three groups of etiological factors in the occurrence of a disease. One of the options is to refer patients with somatic diseases to one of the psychological forms of treatment. Employees and concessionaires of the Primorsko Goranska County Health Center were contacted in order to examine the attitude of family physicians towards psychological treatment methods and the extent to which they refer their somatic patients to them. The research used the General Demographic Questionnaire, two short questionnaires structured for the purposes of this research and the Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Psychological Help-Short Form. The results show that LOMs have positive personal attitudes about psychological methods of treatment, regardless of gender and years of service. The frequency of referral of somatic patients to psychological treatments does not depend on attitudes towards psychological methods of treatment and attending education in psychological methods of treatment, but is in a positive relationship with years of service. Over 50% of referrals to psychiatrists and psychological treatments relate to patients with undifferentiated somatic symptoms, followed by gastrointestinal, malignant and cardiovascular diseases. Physicians mostly refer patients with malignant diseases to self-help groups (30.5%), followed by gastrointestinal, neurological and rheumatic diseases.