TY - JOUR
AU - Hallam, R.S.
AB - What Is Psychotherapy? Proc. 9th Int. Congr. Psychother., Oslo 1973 Psychother. Psychosom. 25: 18 8 -1 9 2 (1975) J. Connolly and R.S. Hallam Maudsley and Bethlem Royal Hospitals, London Since April, 1972 more than 100 patients at the Maudsley and Bethlem Royal Hospitals, London, have come into therapy which effects changes by psychological methods. The agents of change are nurses. The development in recent years o f such effective, yet ancient, psychologi­ cal methods as desensitization, flooding, modelling, self-regulation, aversion and operant-shaping has led to an acute awareness that there are not enough psy­ chologists or psychiatrists to administer them to the many people who could derive some benefit. For example, some 3 % o f adult psychiatric patients are markedly phobic. A further 2 % are obsessional. These are but two categories and by no means exhaust the patients for whom the methods have applicability, but do suggest the size o f population that could possibly be helped. The methods, if not simple, are delineable and their key elements can be specified and taught — perhaps more easily than the more diffuse methods o f dynamic psychotherapy. Among the many classes of personnel who could help to 
TI - The Psychiatric Nurse as a More Independent Therapist
JF - Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
DO - 10.1159/000286863
DA - 1975-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/karger/the-psychiatric-nurse-as-a-more-independent-therapist-x2CV1lnI2k
SP - 188
EP - 192
VL - 25
IS - 1-6
DP - DeepDyve
ER -