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Psychotherapy Today

Further Consideration of the Essence of Psychotherapy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Stanley E. Greben*
Affiliation:
University of Toronto, Room 930, Mount Sinai Hospital, 600 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X5, Canada

Abstract

Despite swings between over-valuation and rejection of psychotherapy on the part of some psychiatrists, there remains a valid and necessary place for psychotherapy in psychiatry. The essential elements of that place are described.

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1987 

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