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The Assessment of Psychological-Mindedness in the Diagnostic Interview

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Nina E. C. Coltart*
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychoanalysis and London Clinic of Psychoanalysis; 1a, Well Road, London NW3 1LJ

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In the last paragraph of his paper ‘A defect in training’, Yorke (1988) has a sentence which serves as an excellent link to the opening of this paper – “For all their importance, empathy and awareness of patients' anxieties do not in themselves amount to psychological understanding”. In his paper, he had made a plea for more psychoanalytical psychology to be included in a general postgraduate psychiatric training, and I am in complete agreement with his cogently-argued case.

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1988 

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