USC ELECTIVE

NPSY D622

 

Introduction to Psychotherapy

Faculty: Clyde H. Flanagan, Jr., M.D. - Course Director
Eugene H. Kaplan, M.D.
Hilda White, M.D.

Institution: Department of Neuropsychiatry & Behavioral Science               USC School of Medicine

Location: Columbia, South Carolina

Duration: 4 or 8 weeks

Course Offered: Once in fall and once in spring

Number of Students: 1 per rotation

Prerequisite: Academic standing in upper one-half of class in courses in Department of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Science and interest in Psychiatry as specialty

Students Report To: Clyde H. Flanagan, Jr., M.D., (803) 434-4250 Fax (803) 434-4277, 15 Richland Medical Park (Clinical Education Building), Suite 301, 9:00 a.m. (1st day of elective)

This course will build upon the knowledge and skills developed during the first three years of medical school. Goals are to impart further knowledge of psychodynamic theories and techniques and their application to individual therapy. The course is designed for students seriously considering psychiatry residency programs. The student will be assigned to an experienced psychotherapist as a mentor, and will participate in seminars and review videotapes of psychotherapy demonstrating various therapeutic interventions: individual, brief, longterm and along a supportive-expressive continuum. The concepts of therapeutic alliance, "working-thru" therapeutic interventions, and termination will be examined. Critical outcome predictors will be explored and understood. Other experiences will be developed for students based on specific interests and available resources.

1. Goals:
a. Understand the underlying principles of psychodynamic psychotherapy.
b. Advantages and limitations of psychotherapy procedures.
c. Indications and contraindications to these procedures.
d. Learn to interact therapeutically with patients.
 
2. Objectives:
a. Demonstrate knowledge of the basic principles of psychodynamic formulation and treatment planning.
b. Demonstrate knowledege of the opening, middle, and termination phases of psychotherapy.
c. Describe and distinguish the supportive and expressive interventions.
d. Define and describe resistance in psychotherapy.
e. Define and describe transference and countertransference.