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By making careful selections and arrangements from the numerous items of information that arise in dynamic psychotherapy and filing them in a microcomputer, this information can be made more readily available to the therapist. Its greater availability can facilitate developing understanding of the patient, making specific and timely insightful interventions, and supporting other aspects of the therapy.
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Block, B. Computer-assisted psychotherapy. J Contemp Psychother 16, 72–75 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00946167
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00946167