The experiences of trainee psychiatrists learning a psychodynamic psychotherapy model: a grounded theory study.
OBJECTIVE
This study aimed to investigate the experience of trainee psychiatrists learning a psychodynamic psychotherapy model.


METHODS
An audio taped, semi-structured interview of 12 participants was conducted, and a grounded theory, qualitative methodology used to analyse the interviews. results: The central concept of 'a daunting task' was developed and linked to the major categories of 'trainee: shock and awe', 'patient: protected and feared', 'supervisor: disappointing or admired/revered' and the 'wider context: doing and learning psychiatry in the 21st century'.


CONCLUSIONS
The study identified several factors in each of the major categories that contributed to the experience of the psychodynamic psychotherapy training case as daunting. Despite this, the participants in the study universally identified the importance of psychiatrists being psychodynamically informed, and the importance of the training case in facilitating this.
The Cottage Community Mental Health Centre, Auckland, New Zealand. zcohen@middlemore.co.nz
Zeeva
Z
Cohen
Simon
S
Hatcher
D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002321:Career Choice; D003479:Curriculum; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D008297:Male; D008611:Mentors / Q000523:psychology; D009520:New Zealand; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000193:education*; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000193:education*