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Reflections on Training in Psychotherapy: A Personal View

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 June 2025

Margaret R. Malcolm
Margaret R. Malcolm*
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Southern General Hospital, Glasgow
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The object of this paper is to set out some of the difficulties experienced in early training in Psychotherapy.

Undergraduate teaching tends to present the student with a view of the patient as a machine with a faulty part rather than as a person. This is reinforced during his period as a houseman. In order to function efficiently, he learns from his senior colleagues how to detach himself from patients so that he can cope with the dying or with investigations which are painful and frightening, or with patients who are chronically sick.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 131 , Issue S3 , September 1977 , pp. 8 - 10
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1977

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Footnotes

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Originally presented at a meeting of the Psychotherapy Section of the Scottish Division of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

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