RT Journal
A1 Grinker RR
T1 THe teaching and learning of psychotherapy.
JF A.M.A. Archives of General Psychiatry
JO A.M.A. Archives of General Psychiatry
YR 1959
FD July 1
VO 1
IS 1
SP 122
OP 122
DO 10.1001/archpsyc.1959.03590010138020
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.1959.03590010138020
AB Modern psychiatry is at present involved in perfecting and discriminating various psychotherapeutic techniques. There are many studies now supported with adequate funds that are oriented toward understanding the therapeutic relationships that offer promise for helping patients of all types. Some of these are restricted to the psychoanalytic procedure; others are more general and are devoted to therapies that are more limited in scope and more open in relationship between doctor and patient. Naturally, each training center attempts to orient its students in the best ways of handling the therapeutic problems that arise within a wide variety of relationships established for the many purposes included under the heading of psychotherapy. There is a great deal of difficulty among the faculties of these training centers in establishing any modal procedures because each supervisor of students of psychotherapy has developed his own life style and through his individual investment of the