The British Journal of Psychiatry (1968) 114: 1425-1428. doi: 10.1192/bjp.114.516.1425
© 1968 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
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Training in Psychotherapy: The Aberdeen Diploma Course

W. M. MILLAR M.D., F.R.C.P.E., D.Psych.1, R. E. MACKIE B.A., M.B., B.Chir., M.R.C.P.E., D.Psych.2, and J. D. GOMERSALL M.B., Ch.B., D.P.M., Dip. Psychotherapy3

1 Crombie-Ross Professor of Mental Health, University of Aberdeen
2 Senior Lecturer, Department of Mental Health, University of Aberdeen
3 Lecturer, Department of Mental Health, University of Aberdeen

It is too early to evaluate this course in any meaningful. However, it has proved to be viable and a demand has been established. Those who have completed the course have expressed satisfaction, and all have progressed in their careers in general psychiatry. We keep in frequent touch with them and recently held a week-end "reunion", when the relevance of the course for subsequent psychiatric practice was the theme of our discussions.

Finance is a problem. It may be that we shall have to offer the course in future not so much to trainees on grants and fellowships but to our own registrars and senior registrars on an in-service basis. This integration with the postgraduate facilities would be in keeping with current trends in the Region and indeed throughout the country.

We take the view that our trainees have learned not only useful skills and a fresh insight into clinical psychiatry but also a more critical approach to dynamic problems such that the research opportunities in this field are appreciated.

Submitted on July 14, 1967