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Sheila Hafter Gray

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PubMed2004

A training psychotherapy elective for military psychiatry residents.

A Training Psychotherapy Elective (TPE) was developed to meet the special requirements of military medical education; but the model is generally applicable to all psychiatry training programs. It aims to demonstrate the technique of individual medical psychotherapy by offering residents and fellows an experience of this procedure in a patient role. It affords trainees an opportunity to address healthy curiosities about their mental functioning without the requirement of endorsing a complaint related to a mental disorder. Training psychotherapy follows the technical model that residents learn in their outpatient rotations. Transparent interventions allow trainees both to experience the impact of clarification and interpretation and to see how the therapist derived them from their associations. This facilitates the application of these interventions to work with patients. It also affords trainees an emotionally sheltered environment in which to explore attitudes and concerns associated with their service in military operations, fostering readiness for such assignments.

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PubMed2003

The contributions of Kenneth Leslie Artiss, M.D.

Kenneth Leslie Artiss (1913-2001) was an Army psychiatrist who did significant investigative work in schizophrenia and milieu therapy and whose broad scholarship led to decisively important and enduring contributions to operational psychiatry. After retirement from military service, he developed a bold approach for teaching psychodynamic theory and its applications, and he led seminars for psychiatry residents and other physicians for over four decades. He was among the first to apply psychodynamic ideas to improve oncology practice. His death in 2001 motivated a group of his military students to memorialize his life and contributions and to demonstrate why they merit continuing consideration.

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PubMed2002

Evidence-based psychotherapeutics.

Evidence-based medicine requires clinicians to base treatment of their patients on the findings of systematic clinical research. In recent years EBM has become linked with appropriate but also inappropriate efforts at cost containment. Organized psychiatry responded by developing evidence-based practice guidelines and launching a range of clinical research initiatives to determine the effectiveness and efficacy of current psychiatric practices. Psychoanalysis is particularly challenged because it has for most of the 20th century been based on conviction alone. Investigators have now identified the obstacles to research into psychoanalysis and dynamic psychotherapy and are developing techniques to overcome these and to study not only outcomes but also the internal processes of these treatment modalities. We may look forward to an evidence-based psychoanalysis in the 21st century.

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