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Teaching Psychodynamic Technique During an Observed Analytic Psychotherapy Interview

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Psychodynamic techniques of confrontation, clarification, and interpretation were taught to psychiatry residents during “live” analytic psychotherapy interviews. First, during a therapeutic interview with a resident’s patient in a seminar group setting, the interviewer (author) periodically stopped to discuss formulations and technique. Later, the author conducted the interviews until dynamic intervention seemed indicated; at those points, the author stopped, discussed the defenses and affects causing pathology, and then asked a resident to make the psychodynamic intervention with the patient. This teaching technique was rated by the residents as extremely helpful in integrating psychoanalytic theory with clinical interventions.

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  1. Center for Psychoanalytic Studies, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA, USA

    Jerome S. Blackman M.D., F.A.P.A. (Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Director, on the Civilian Faculty and Training and Supervising Analyst)

  2. Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth, VA, USA

    Jerome S. Blackman M.D., F.A.P.A. (Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Director, on the Civilian Faculty and Training and Supervising Analyst)

  3. Psychoanalytic Training Program, New York Freudian Society, Washington, DC, USA

    Jerome S. Blackman M.D., F.A.P.A. (Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Director, on the Civilian Faculty and Training and Supervising Analyst)

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Blackman, J.S. Teaching Psychodynamic Technique During an Observed Analytic Psychotherapy Interview. Acad Psychiatry 21, 148–154 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03341574

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