You Are Always on My Mind

摘要

No, for a change, I’m not talking about the inundation from the 24-hour-a-day news. I’m thinking about psychotherapy and want to discuss 2 related things. The October issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry published 2 articles of major importance for those interested in strengthening the evidence base for psychotherapy.1,2 Over the past 5 decades, for a variety of reasons, the training in and availability of psychodynamically focused psychotherapy has been diminishing. Since the publication of the Institute of Medicine’s report on evidence-based medicine, the pace of the decline has increased. Why?