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The Nottingham Experiential Day in Psychotherapy:

A New Approach to Teaching Psychotherapy to Medical Students

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Mark Aveline
Affiliation:
Nottingham Psychotherapy Unit, St Ann's Hospital, Porchester Road, Nottingham NG3 6LF
Jane Price
Affiliation:
Fair Mile Hospital, Berkshire

Abstract

A prime objective in teaching psychotherapy to medical students is to convey a practical understanding of what happens and a sense of the pleasure and responsibility of working with another person to improve the quality of their relationships. In Nottingham an experiential day was developed during the psychiatry clerkship; the teaching is by doing rather than describing, while spontaneity and individual expression are encouraged; the experience is valued by most and forgotten by none; it would be improved by a second experiential day or by a weekly forum for discussion of the personal and patient-care issues raised.

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Copyright © 1986 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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