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A Technique of Insight-Directed Psychotherapy for Health Service Use

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

F. P. Haldane*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, West Middlesex Hospital, Isleworth, Middlesex

Summary

A technique of psychotherapy seemingly compatible with psychoanalytical knowledge is described, and compared and contrasted with psychoanalysis. Its mode of action, efficacy, advantages and difficulties, and its suitability for once-a-week individual or group psychotherapy and therefore for Health Service use is discussed.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1975 

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