First Steps in Psychotherapy: Teaching Psychotherapy to Medical Students and General Practitioners

ISBN-13: 9783540150428 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 164 str.

H. H. Wolff; W. Knauss; W. Brautigam

Opis

The contributors to this volume, like many others concerned with medical education have for a long whilebeen conscious of the fact that in the training of medical students and in the practice of medicine too little attention is being paid to the psychological aspects of illness and to the use of psychotherapy in patient care. In an attempt to fill this gap medical students at University College Hospital, London, have since 1958 been given the opportunity on a voluntary basis to treat a pa tient with weekly analytically-orientated psychotherapy under supervision for a year or longer. In 1977 a similar scheme was started at the Psychosomatic Clinic of Heidel berg University. We were fortunate in obtaining generous financial support from the European Community which has enabled teachers and students from our two uni versities in Great Britain and the Federal Republic of Germany to collaborate in this student-psychotherapy teaching project and to compare our experiences. In this book we present an account of this joint educational endeavour, including our successes and our failures, as well as our attempts to solve some of the problems we have en countered. We decided to let individual supervisors and teachers who inevitably differed in their approach write their own contributions rather than try to present a unified pic ture which would not have given a fair impression of our work and experience. Ifthis has led to some repetition in the text we hope readers will appreciate the reason for it."

Spis treści

1 Theoretical Concepts.- 1.1 The Place of Psychotherapy and Psychodynamic Understanding in Medicine.- 1.2 Teaching Basic Psychotherapeutic and Psychodynamic Concepts.- 2 Teaching Psychotherapy to Medical Students.- 2.1 Medical Student Training: The Situation in Great Britain.- 2.2 The Present State of Medical Education in the Federal Republic of Germany.- 2.3 Development and Organisation of the Student-Psychotherapy Teaching Scheme at University College Hospital.- 2.4 Organisation of the Student-Psychotherapy Project in Heidelberg.- 2.5 Problems and Methods used in the Teaching Scheme at UCH.- 2.6 Differences and Similarities Between Student-Psychotherapy in London and Heidelberg.- 2.7 The Process of Supervision: Transference and Counter-Transference.- 2.8 Anxieties and Difficulties for Student-Psychotherapists.- 2.9 Follow-up Results of the Student-Psychotherapy Project in Heidelberg.- 2.10 Two Case Studies Illustrating Success and Failure of Psychotherapy s.- 2.11 Examples and Comments by three Students on their Experience with Patients at UCH, London.- 3 Psychotherapy in General Practice.- 3.1 Introduction: The Present State of Psychotherapy.- 3.2 Psychotherapy and General Practice.- 3.3 Balint Group: History, Concepts and Aims.- 3.4 Psychotherapy in General Practice: Possibilities, Limitations and Conflicts.- 3.5 Interviewing Methods in Psychotherapy.- 3.6 Talking with Cancer Patients.- 3.7 Psychiatric Illness in General Practice and Reasons for Case Presentations in Balint Groups.- 3.8 The Group Process in Balint Groups.- 3.9 Prospects for Psychotherapy in General Practice.- 4 Personal Experience of a Balint Group led by Michael Balint.- 5 References.- 6 Index.