Long-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy A Basic Text

With the extraordinary progress in the neurosciences and psychopharmacology in recent years, some psychiatric training programs have deemphasized psychotherapy education. Many residents and educators have decried the loss of the “mind” in the increasing emphasis on the biological basis of mental illness and the shift toward somatic treatments as the central therapeutic strategy in psychiatry. This shift in emphasis has been compounded by the common practice in our managed care era of “split treatment,” meaning that psychiatrists are often relegated to seeing the patient for a brief medication management session, while the psychotherapy is conducted by a mental health professional from another discipline. This shift in emphasis has created considerable concern among both psychiatric educators and the consumers of psychiatric education—the residents themselves.