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Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2002;59:501-503.

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GABBARD, Gunderson, and Fonagy¹ make a convincing case for the necessity and, more optimistically, for the feasibility of developing a research program that will establish the scientific legitimacy of psychoanalysis and intensive psychoanalytic therapies within the framework of evidence-based psychiatry. They outline a hierarchy of research designs ranked according to scientific rigor and argue that proponents of the psychoanalytic psychotherapies must and can meet state-of-the-art standards for demonstrating both efficacy and effectiveness. The authors are responding to a "conviction that psychoanalytic treatments . . . must remain closely integrated with psychiatry's repertoire of treatments, for the welfare of both psychoanalysis and psychiatry."¹

While this conviction is shared by many in the field,^2-3 is officially sanctioned by the Residency Review Committee for Psychiatry of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (which sets official guidelines for training in psychiatry), and is even voiced by outsiders who observe our goings-on,^4-5 it has . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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