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An Attempt at Differentiation

ALEX H. KAPLAN, MD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1963;9(5):497-503.

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While it is generally accepted that the field of social work differs significantly from the general field of psychiatry, the differences between what the social worker does in case work therapy and what the psychiatrist does in psychological therapy are much less clear. Such differences are often shrouded in the semantics of definitions, professional rivalry, untenable theoretical assumptions, and legalistic arguments. Although there have been many articles published in an attempt to differentiate social case work therapy from psychoanalytic psychotherapy,^1-4 there have been fewer efforts to compare social case work therapy with psychiatric psychotherapy.^5-7 However, the question as to whether social case work therapy is "psychotherapy" has been frequently raised but never satisfactorily answered.^4,8 Such discussions are usually dependent on the definition of "psychotherapy" used or the need to delineate the specific psychological therapy with a descriptive term but give no . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
ST. LOUIS

Clinical Assistant Professor in Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, and Lecturer in Social Psychiatry, George Warren Brown School of Social Work.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication July 8, 1963.

Presented as resource paper at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, St. Louis, May 10, 1963.

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