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Alternatives

RICHARD FISCH, MD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1965;13(4):359-366.

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AS PSYCHOTHERAPISTS, we are constantly involved in encouraging change in our patients. In one way or another we devote a major portion of our working lives hoping that we may be of some assistance in the broadening of their experiences in the world. Yet less attention is paid to the broadening out of our own professional lives or the tools we use to help patients achieve changes in themselves. I am sure that most therapists, at some points in their career, have paused to take a backward look over the growth of their work. However, the press of work keeps up and it is difficult to keep questions about one's own development in mind for long. We continue trying to help, using the tools we know best and perhaps not varying them very much until more years go by and again we may pause to look back on . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
PALO ALTO, CALIF

Footnotes
Submitted for publication March 15, 1965.

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For example, many of the renowned training centers are in some fashion associated with formal psychoanalytic institutes, such as the Menninger Clinic, the Yale Department of Psychiatry, or the New York Psychiatric Institute.

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