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When I was in residency, many moons ago, the importance of the frame in psychotherapy was emphasized. Same place, same time, same duration, same cost. Any movement outside the frame was a boundary crossing, a signal to watch for a breakdown of the barriers protecting patient and therapist—for example, from increasing intimacy. The importance of the frame has continued to be recognized for the most part, with some notable exceptions, such as accompanying patients outside the office during exposure exercises, or so I’d thought—but enter the coronavirus.
Hi! Jim Phelps here for the Psychopharmacology Institute. In this Quick Take, we’ll look at remote psychotherapy via a review in the American Journal of Psychiatry by John Markowitz and colleagues, most of them from New York institutions deeply steeped in the psychoanalytic tradition or in Markowitz’s extensive research on interpersonal therapy. As the authors begin their review, “COVID-19 has changed the field
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