title: Is that an unconscious fantasy or an automatic thought? Challenges of learning multiple psychotherapies simultaneously.
abstract: Today, psychiatry residents learn multiple psychotherapeutic techniques during their training. Learning these different modalities at the same time can cause confusion in the areas of assessment, making a psychotherapeutic recommendation, and conducting a treatment. To investigate these issues, we presented a complex training case to three psychotherapy experts. Although they had somewhat different ideas about how to treat the patient, there was general consensus that adhering to a single conceptual formulation is key to treating individual patients in psychotherapy. A final discussion addresses the pedagogical implications of this perspective.
authors: Columbia University Department of Psychiatry, New York, NY 10034, USA. emd7002@nyp.org
authors: Emily D
authors: ED
authors: Gastelum
authors: Aerin M
authors: AM
authors: Hyun
authors: David A
authors: DA
authors: Goldberg
authors: Barbara
authors: B
authors: Stanley
authors: Donna M
authors: DM
authors: Sudak
authors: Deborah L
authors: DL
authors: Cabaniss
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D054523:Adult Survivors of Child Abuse / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D002650:Child Abuse, Sexual / Q000523:psychology; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000193:education*; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000193:education* / Q000379:methods*; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000628:therapy; D014481:United States