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The Therapeutic Consultation: Finding the Patient
Published Online:30 Apr 2018https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2006.60.2.153
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.
