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Studies Done in a University Community Psychiatric Clinic

Paul Errera, MD; Braxton McKee, MD; D. Clint Smith, MD; Robert Gruber, MD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1967;17(4):454-458.

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MOST clinic psychotherapy is brief. Patients in individual psychotherapy in psychiatric clinics are generally seen one hour per week for one or two up to 20 or 30 visits. Although the differences in the extremes seem great, it should be noted that even at its upper limit this number of treatment hours is remarkably small compared to the number of hours involved in intensive psychotherapy or psychoanalysis. Despite this fact there is a tendency in the literature1-18 on psychiatric clinics to polarize patients into two groups, "short-term" and "long-term." Some authors1,^5-8,10-15 have described the short-term patient as differing from the long-term patient along a number of social, personal, and demographic parameters. A few studies1,^5-9,12 have shown a positive correlation between length of psychotherapy and patient improvement. These conclusions have crept into clinic folklore and have complemented another commonly held assumption, namely that the short-term patient is involved in . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
New Haven, Conn

From the Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication May 9, 1967.

Reprint requests to 34 Park St, New Haven, Conn 06508 (Dr. Errera).

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