title: "Teaching" the therapeutic alliance: on peeling a banana with a knife and fork.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This paper discusses the implications for training of the centrality of the therapeutic alliance to the practice of psychiatry.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Recent research highlights the centrality of the therapeutic alliance, not only to positive outcomes across the psychotherapies but in all psychiatric practice. This understanding, along with a cultural shift toward psychological-mindedness, suggests that we teach relational as well as intellectual skills and implement a broader role for psychotherapy training. A subsequent article will address the question of whether and how such skills can be developed.
authors.affiliation: Consultant Psychiatrist, Psychotherapy Unit, Monash Health, Clayton, VIC, Australia Lynette.Chazan@monash.health.org.
authors.forename: Lynette
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Chazan
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000193:education*; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000193:education*
keywords: professional development; psychotherapy training; therapeutic alliance