Training and brief psychotherapies

The authors report their experience on a workshop centered on brief psychotherapy (the STAPP model defined by Sifneos) in a postgraduate training in psychotherapy. STAPP, its extensed frame of reference and its relatively 'easy' access to study of essential paradigms, seems to constitute a priviledged tool in training psychiatrists to-be to the fundamental psychodynamics processes involved in psychotherapy. Provided the transferential and countertransferential issues are adequately met with (in individual and group supervision), it is lived very positively by trainees as such and has, moreover, a positive carry-over in so-called supportive therapies.