Book Review July 15, 2005

Our Inner World: A Guide to Psychodynamics and Psychotherapy

Milton Kramer, MD

J Clin Psychiatry 2005;66(7):955

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It is clear that in psychiatric training we cannot dispense withteaching the resident how to practice psychotherapy. This recognitionhas been codified by the Resident Review Committee inmandating that residents demonstrate competency in 5 types ofpsychotherapy. This competency expectation is predicated tosome degree on the demonstration of efficacy in such psychotherapiesas cognitive-behavioral and interpersonal psychotherapyand more recently by a meta-analysis of treatmentefficacy of psychodynamic psychotherapy.’ ‹