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Psychodynamics and Psychotherapy on an Acute Psychiatric Ward

The Story of an Experimental Unit

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Murray Jackson  and
Robert Cawley
Murray Jackson*
Affiliation:
King's College Hospital, Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospitals (Emeritus)
Robert Cawley
Affiliation:
University of London
*
∗ Le Pous, St André-de-Roquepertuis, 30630, France
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Abstract

The treatment of severely disturbed patients is strengthened in an important way by listening closely to them and by attempting to understand their experience in the depth that is made possible by the use of psychoanalytic concepts. It follows that the practice of clinical psychiatry in the UK would be greatly improved by the introduction of a psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic perspective into the acute ward. This paper reviews the work done on a ward at the Maudsley Hospital in which this approach was the practice.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 160 , Issue 1 , January 1992 , pp. 41 - 50
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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