The therapeutic consultation: finding the patient. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • The psychiatric consultation has not been adequately exploited as a therapeutic device. Although, the original abstinent model for psychodynamic psychotherapy has become more flexible, passive listening with interventions to elicit diagnostic "data" remains the prevailing mode in psychiatric consultation. In this paper I develop the idea of the consultation as an active process (Viederman, M., 2002) that engages the patient emotionally for therapeutic effect.

publication date

  • January 1, 2006

Research

keywords

  • Professional-Patient Relations
  • Psychotherapy
  • Referral and Consultation

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 33748366011

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2006.60.2.153

PubMed ID

  • 16892951

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 60

issue

  • 2