title: Character healing: a fresh look at psychodynamic psychotherapy.
abstract: Caught between the successes of modern psychopharmacology, the requests of suffering patients for quick relief, and the shortsightedness of many third-party payers, psychodynamic psychotherapy might seem to be on the ropes. It is, however, thriving and providing crucial help to many individuals for whom medication and brief counseling are insufficient. Meanwhile, many more who could benefit from psychotherapy do not have an opportunity to do so. Although psychodynamic psychotherapy originated and developed within a medical framework, it has minimal visibility on the current medical scene, and many physicians have been provided with little meaningful information about it. This article is intended to give physicians a general idea of what psychodynamic psychotherapy is and how it works.
authors.affiliation: Minnesota Institute of Psychiatry, St. Paul, USA.
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authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Goodman
mesh_terms: D002605:Character; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D008602:Mental Healing; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy