Psychotherapy in the setting of general medical practice

This paper is designed to map some of the interventions with patients which psychotherapists working in the setting of general practice surgery are likely to find feasible and effective. For the past five years the Community Unit of the Adult Department of the Tavistock Clinic has been engaged in a project whereby trainees and staff on the four‐year adult psychotherapy course have been attached one morning per week to local group medical practices. The general pattern of this collaboration has been described elsewhere (Brook & Temperley, 1976). The consultative aspects of attachments to general practice are enormously important but I wish to concentrate in this paper on the help which psychotherapists in a surgery can offer direct to patients whose emotional problems are felt by the GP and the therapist to lie beyond the former's range or inclination

Family medicine · General hospital · General practice · Medical education · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Psychotherapist · Unit (ring theory) · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics · Medicine · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications