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[Psychological and psychodynamic education of physicians]
1Faculté de médecine, l'Université de Lausanne.
Abstract:
Not every Doctor needs a training in the doctor-patient relationship and in the knowledge of the psychodynamics issues of his patients. But it is a must for the doctors who treat and look after their patients. The people in charge of this training should consider the importance of the unconscious and consequently of the psychoanalytical dimension. The resistances against the psychodynamic approach by the reduction to the common sens, the use of the parallel medicines or the systemic and cognitive approaches. The need and desire of this type of formation in relation to the professional personality of the Doctor.
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