The Role of Theory in Teaching Supportive Psychotherapy

Henry Pinsker, M.D.Authors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychotherapy

Volume 48, Number 4

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1994.48.4.530

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Supportive therapy is a “shell” of specific techniques, based on explicit rationales, used within some theoretical framework that guides the therapist. Supportive therapy is not inherently related to the theoretical framework, which comes from one or another school of thought about development and symptom formation. Students of psychotherapy should be taught these techniques from the start and provided extensive supervision.

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American Journal of Psychotherapy

Volume 48 • Number 4 • 1994, pp. 489–662

Pages: 530 - 542

PubMed: 7872416

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Published in print: 1994, pp. 489–662

Published online: 30 April 2018

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Henry Pinsker, M.D.

Senior Psychiatrist, Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Medical Center. Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

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Mailing address: Beth Israel Medical Center, First Avenue at 16th Street, New York, NY 10003.

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