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Psychiatry and Psychotherapy: Past and Future

The relationship of psychotherapeutics to psychiatry is presently a focus of some contention. Herewith, we present a brief historical overview of the vicissitudes of that relationship as three “battles” and three “revolutions” set against a changing cultural context. The question “whither psychotherapy in psychiatry” cannot be answered with any certainty although the future options are clear.

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