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The authors review the ancient mentoring relationship in Homer’s Odyssey and the mentoring discourse of Socrates. These relationships illustrate the art of inspiring a searching quality in the subject and the angst of the struggle that accompanies perplexity and unknowing. The developmental stages of the mentor and resident in psychiatric training are reviewed. A spectrum of teaching interventions are discussed as they might be perceived by the student. Finally, Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” is used as a metaphor for the art of enlightenment and angst of learning and teaching in the mentoring relationship. (Academic Psychiatry 1997; 21:61–71)
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17 January 2014
In the Summer 1997 issue of Academic Psychiatry (Volume 21, No. 2), the last name of one of the co-authors of the article “The Art and Angst of the Mentoring Relationship” (pages 61—71) was misspelled. The second-author’s name is Marc S. Litle, M.D., not Little, which was printed in the issue. Our sincere apologies to Dr. Litle, and we regret the error.
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Davis, L.L., Little, M.S. & Thornton, W.L. The Art and Angst of the Mentoring Relationship. Acad Psychiatry 21, 61–71 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03341901
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